Growing up, I always had an intense propulsion towards performing, any type of performance. My mother recalls two instances when she knew as well. She once caught me at the petting zoo, finding my way on camera as a TV commercial was being filmed.  She also remembers me watching the Winter Olympics, mesmerized by the ice skaters traipsing across the screen. It began my love affair with ice skating and performing. I originated from Rockford, Illinois, and Clinton, Wisconsin where I started studying ballet and ice skating at the age of three. I was a competitive ice skater until I was 17 and I received a gold medal from the United States Figure Skating of America. I wasn’t thrown into the world of performing on stage until I was 8. My grandmother suggested I try musical theater because of my graceful dancing and I fell in love with performing music theater. In high school, I was even involved in a community theater in Rockford, IL.

I decided to continue studying Musical Theater at Nebraskan Wesleyan University (NWU). I had the opportunity to work with choreographers, actors, and directors from New York who would create amazing productions. Even though I enjoyed doing musical theater, it wasn’t until I did my first straight play at NWU that I became absolutely enamored with acting.

At the end of my junior year, I studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York and learned the Alder technique. I took my first ever TV & film class and did a scene from Lost in Translation. After walking in front of the camera for the first time in a long time, I took a breath…I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do with my life. On a whim, I auditioned for Atlantic Acting School, decided to graduate NWU early, and attend their Conservatory program in NYC. Things aligned in such a fast pace after I realized my calling, two days after attending Atlantic, I was notified I would be playing the lead in a new TV pilot directed and created by James Serpico titled Angelina.

I fell so deeply in love with the film world and being on sets that I wanted to learn the other side of the business, so I interned at a cinematography agency, The Right Eye Inc. At the end of my second year of Atlantic, my cohorts and I founded Bluebird Theatre Company in which I was initially appointed the Secretary. Given my experience in business and operations since I was the box office manager at NWU, I am now the Managing Director of the theatre company. I look forward to starting the next phase of my artistic life in the world of acting.