Actor - Writer - Educator
ABOUT ME
My first role was as a baby deer in a community theatre production of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. My mom fashioned some antler stubs out of unused tampons on a headband and the rest is history.
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I've bean a professional actor for over 20 years. I hold an MFA in Acting from Northwestern University and a BFA in Theatre from Michigan State University. I spent the last decade working in Los Angeles in film, television, improv, sketch comedy, and stand-up. You may have seen me gracing the television screen in Super Bowl, national, and regional commercials.
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Currently, I'm based in Chicago and I'm repped by Grossman & Jack. I was most recently seen in a Speedway commercial alongside the very funny JD Eicher.
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EDUCATION
MFA in Acting - Northwestern University
Mentors: Stan Brown and Helena S. Kays
Instructors included: Stan Brown (Voice, Shakespeare), Sandra Marquez (Acting, Voice, Dialects), Anna D. Shapiro (Acting),
Dr. Cristal Chanelle Truscott (Soul Work/Acting), Helena Kays (Devising, Acting), Roger Ellis (Movement, Musical Theatre),
Jeffrey Hancock (Movement), Shana Cooper (Essence Work), Marc frost (Lecoq Technique), Sam Hubbard (Stage Combat),
John Haas (Voice, Singing), Gregory Linington (Shakespeare, Acting)
Teaching Certificate - Searle Center, Northwestern University
Mentor: Ana Diaz Barriga
Writing the First Screenplay Certificate - UCLA
Mentor: Ben van der Veen
BFA in Theatre - Michigan State University
Mentor: Rob Roznowski
Instructors included: Rob Roznowski (Acting), Nick Tamarkin (Acting, Directing), Lori Jean Nichols (Voice), John Lepard (Acting),
Christina Traister (Stage Combat), Lela Ivey (On-Camera), Frank Rutledge (Acting).
TRAINING
Contemporary Modern Dance - Helen Lee with Khecari
Masterclass on Acting with Helen Hunt
Storytelling with Rives Collins
Soul Work with Dr. Cristal Chanelle Truscott
Laban and Bartenieff Fundamentals with Jeffery Hancock
Lecoq Movement Technique with Marc Frost
Moment Work Workshop with Moisés Kaufman
John Rosenfeld Acting Studio, Los Angeles, CA
The Groundlings School
Killian’s Commercial Workshop
The Second City Conservatory, Los Angeles, CA
The Second City Conservatory, Chicago, IL
Guillermo Gomez-Pena - Performance Art Workshop
Master Class in Classical Scene Study with Brian Bedford
CREATIVE WORK
Apologetically Myself, A Solo Show
A very personal show about body shame and learning to love myself while I challenge my disordered eating and body image by going on a funny, sad, inspiring, and hopeful journey.
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Growing Up, Growing Old, Screenplay
A film about a grown woman who is forced to move back in with her parents at age 35 and develops an unexpected friendship with an elderly man who is slowly disappearing due to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
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Alison, TV Pilot
Two women take a chance on a a new roommate, Alison, who is friendly, smart, talkative…and from the Planet Ordo, 879 billion light years away. After witnessing a galactic crime, Alison finds herself in the Galaxy Witness Protection Program and she must try everything humanly possible to fit in and lay low.
Party People, TV Pilot
Juggling career goals, rent payments, and relationships is hard enough. Add in hauling dresses and wigs all over Southern California to spend 4 hours with screaming children? That’s the life of a Party Girl. This show exposes the secret lives of three women working as Party Princesses, a strange industry where part-time professionals dress up as iconic princesses for birthday parties and events.
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Halfway House, Webseries
Two broke girls can no longer afford to pay their rent and decide to fake drug habits in order to live in a halfway house. Their web of lies begins to unravel and they must face the consequences.