Collins' Instant Theatre Company produced her script "Papa's Angels" at
The Highlands Studio for the Arts in December of 1987. The script went
through years of extensive re-writes before it became a full length
play. It won the "Best Play of the Year Award" at The Grand Olde Players Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska two years running before Samuel French, Inc. published the play. The book, which is based on the play, was published by New World Library. CBS optioned "Papa's Angels" for a television movie,
Papa's Angels (2000), starring
Scott Bakula and
Cynthia Nixon, which aired in December of 2000.