OTHER STUFF

I’ve also had the honor of playing the character GERM CRUST on the wildly popular improvised podcast Hello from The Magic Tavern.

I have worked as a teaching artist with PlayMakers Laboratory Theatre, Writers Theatre, Old Town School of Folk Music , iO Theater and The Green Room Acting Studio.

Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have an idea for a potential collaboration.

MY (SUPERHERO??) ORIGIN STORY

Growing up a (closeted? or unaware?) queer kid in Columbia, South Carolina, I always felt most at home performing in plays, musicals, and quoting Mean Girls over and over and over again instead of doing my math homework. I attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts for high school and then earned a B.A. in Theatre and Spanish from the University of South Carolina Honors College before moving to Chicago in 2012 to study improv and be a part of the city’s vibrant theater scene. At 20, I had the honor of attending the British American Drama Academy Midsummer in Oxford program, where I got to spend a summer studying Shakespeare, wearing sundresses, and being wayyyy too excited that I could legally order Savignon Blanc at the bar (NERD ALERT!)

In high school, one of my drama teachers nominated me “most likely to star in her own TV show titled AWKWARD”. But guess what, teacher?! That tv show already got made and I’m NOT the star! So there!

THEATER & DEVISED WORK

Some productions I’ve acted in are: Athena at Writers Theatre (winner of the 2022 Jeff Award for best Fight Choreography), The Wolves at Goodman Theatre (winner of the 2018 Jeff Award for Best Ensemble); Coronation at Refracted Theatre (nominated for the 2024 Jeff Award for Best Production); and Hookman at Steep Theatre.

I’ve also been involved as a performer in new work development for many incredible new plays. (I love new plays! Keep writing them, people!) The Kennedy Center, The Latinx Theatre Commons, Sideshow Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, Adventure Stage Chicago, PlayMakers Laboratory and The Neo-Futurists.

You can see me perform with my 11-years-young improv team Devil’s Daughter at iO Theatre in Chicago every Friday at 7:30pm. If you want to, email me at my contact page and I’ll get you comps to a show!

FILMMAKING

In 2018, I began making short films when I co-starred in and co-produced the short film Cool for Five Seconds, written by Calamity West. The short has been featured at 22 festivals, received the Grand Prize at the Midwest Film Awards and Best Ensemble at the Milwaukee Shorts Fest in 2021.

As a writer/director, my short film script Rough River Lake was a semifinalist for the 2020 Chicago Community Builders Grant and the Mass Epiphany script competition. The completed short has since won Best Short Film and the Audience Award at London International Short Film Festival.

As of 2021, I am a proud 3Arts Make A Wave grantee.

In November 2022, I was granted the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Midwest Film Festival for my work on Rough River Lake, and in January 2023, I was a featured filmmaker in the inaugural issue of The Call Sheet Magazine, where I got to talk about how much I love telling queer stories, specifically through my very own comedic lens!

To find out more about the film projects I’ve been working on, check them out at my aptly titled “Film Projects” page.