I am a human living and learning in Boulder, CO. Though my story starts many, many years earlier…

I was born and raised just outside of Minneapolis, MN in a sleepy suburb called Roseville. Here, I discovered my passion for acting, improvising, and all things theatre.

I came up in the Minneapolis theatre scene and experienced modest success as a teenager when a local reviewer once described my performance in Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn as “insufferably spastic.”

I followed my acting dream as a first-generation college student and received a BFA in Acting from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2015 where I played a variety of old men and eccentric weirdos.

Upon graduating, I immediately landed a job with Disney Cruise Line playing The Genie in Aladdin on the Fantasy ship. After sailing around the Caribbean for 7 months, I continued to pursue a career in theatre and moved to New York City.

I lived and worked in NYC for 4 years and booked acting jobs that took me to places like Arizona, California, New Hampshire, 43rd Street in Midtown, a bar basement on the Upper West Side, and Saudi Arabia (twice, actually). I thought I would spend my life as a New Yorker…and then, well, COVID happened…5 months of quarantine and no work later, I had to pivot. So, I pursued graduate school…

I moved across the country in 2020 to begin my Master of Arts in Theatre & Performance Studies at The University of Colorado Boulder. Here, I discovered an interdisciplinary research interest in improv, queer theory, and climate change communications.

I graduated with my MA in 2022 and moved swiftly into the PhD program at CU Boulder. My dissertation analyzes a series of workshops on embodied improv activities inspired by Augusto Boal and his theories in Theatre of the Oppressed, which I facilitated at the University of Iowa, the University of Colorado Boulder, and an arts-science summer school program in Berlin, Germany. I expect to graduate with my PhD in Spring 2025.

I have learned a lot while in grad school and am proficient in sending emails. I am enjoying this chapter of my life. I have built skills as a writer, researcher, theorist, teacher, climate communicator, improviser, workshop facilitator, and theatrical director. I will also become certified in Theatre of the Oppressed facilitation in April 2025. You can find my publications and additional scholarship at the bottom of the News + Résumé/CV tab.

While in Boulder, I have built a professional directing career for myself. I have worked on 16 productions as either artistic director, director, assistant director, or co-director. I also teach private acting lessons for high school students.

When in normal human mode, I love cooking, reading (currently on a sci-fi/fantasy kick so please send recommendations), learning about film photography, practicing mindfulness, traveling, caring for my many plants, creative writing (read a sample), laughing with friends, and going to the movies with my handsome boyfriend.

You can see more of my professional life throughout this website.