I'm a storyteller.

I have always been motivated by the power of a single story. Statistics and information inform us about what’s going on in the world. Theatre allows us to take concepts so much bigger than ourselves and find the individual, human experiences behind them. The stage is a classroom where we can teach, ask questions, and discover truths about life, love, loss, power, and connection. Through acting, I get to be a storyteller, a teacher, and an activist.
I am the proud daughter of a gay, single mother of four. I am a triplet, I am a donor child, and I have over fifty half-siblings around the world. I spent the first 14 years of my life terrified that the world wouldn’t accept my mom, my family, or me, so I hid that part of my life. The accepting environment of theatre and the representation of LGBT and non-traditional families I saw onstage and onscreen empowered me to stop hiding and embrace my own story, and I never looked back.
Soon after I began acting, I was given the opportunity to portray Nancy Frates, the mother who started the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to save her young son Pete. Early on in my rehearsal process, I reached out to Nancy to tell her how much she inspired me and that I had adapted her story into a performance piece. Through our shared goal, we formed a beautiful friendship. At the same time that Pete received a tracheostomy and lost the physical ability to tell his own story, I was using my own voice to share his family’s story with thousands.
Since then, I have adapted several written works into performances to share the stories of my personal heroes. These heroes include Jenny Lawson, an author who wrote and spoke out about her several miscarriages and how common yet underrepresented miscarriages are; Kaitlyn Roig, the Sandy Hook Elementary first grade teacher who saved her 16 students during the devastating shooting of 2014; and Brian Finkelstein, a writer who, after struggling with suicidal thoughts, went on to work at a suicide hotline and saved countless lives.
The stories I’ve told and the people I’ve portrayed continue to influence who I am and who I aim to be. I am an artist motivated to create the same impact as the people I look up to. Acting gives me a voice to make the world a little more aware, a little more empathetic, and a little bit better one story at a time.