BIO

My passion for storytelling was passed down genetically by a beautiful line of compulsive actors and goofballs. As a Hell’s Kitchen native with a theater family, I grew up surrounded by passion for theater performance and production, and all of the guts and glory of a life in the arts. I performed consistently in school, but I always felt a pull to learn about the art of theater as a whole, and test whether or not my destiny was truly determined by my family’s theatrical tradition. After I received my bachelor’s degree in Theater from the University of Massachusetts, I worked as the Communications Director at the All For One Theater Festival in New York, helping to build the company and produce the festival in its inaugural years at Theatre 80 St. Marks and the Cherry Lane Theater. Throughout this time, I couldn’t step back from acting, and continued to perform in downtown New York theaters.

My experience with nonprofit theater and production payed off when I joined the Massachusetts-based company Real Live Theatre, a collective that devises and tours new theater across the Northeast. With RLT I helped devise new work and toured two leading roles for two years, in addition to summer seasons with Hampshire Shakespeare Company. I also directed my first full-length play, the one-man musical I Hear Cracks in the Concrete Kingdom by Kevin Murphy at Under St. Marks.

A few years ago I returned to New York ready to focus fully on acting and received my MFA in Acting from The New School, where I studied with Caymichael Patten, Scott Whitehurst, and Patrice Johnson Chevannes. I trained in devised theater technique with Tectonic Theater Project, Frantic Assembly, Elevator Repair Service, Dael Orlandersmith, and Dmitry Krymov, and in voice and voice-over with Andrea Haring and Kathy Searle. I also made my film directing debut during the pandemic with the horror comedy BFFs4EVA.

I am most excited by work that explores the beauty and worthiness of flawed characters with honesty and humor. The lighthouses of my work are my inner clown and my calling to give armor against (and healing for) the commonality of human struggle.