An actor by vocation, I caught the performing bug young, beginning ballet training at five and joining every community theatre production I could in my northern Minnesotan town.

I moved east to earn a B.A. at Barnard College of Columbia University, where I trained as an actor under Rob Bundy and Juilliard’s Rebecca Guy and worked with celebrated choreographers Twyla Tharp, Larry Keigwin, Colleen Thomas, and Sidra Bell. Over the years since, I’ve continued my acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, The Freeman Studio, The Bob Krakower Gang, and The Studio/New York. Along the way, I’ve performed on stages and sets across the country.

Some of my most fulfilling experiences have come from creating my own work. Among them, in 2018 and 2019, I created and produced a solo cabaret honoring Judy Garland (we share a hometown!) called, What Would Judy Do? I performed four iterations of it over two years, selling out venues in New York and Minnesota.

In the fall of 2024, Jamie Gore Pawlik and I founded Kind Strangers Collective, a New York City–based theatre company committed to amplifying new voices and forging opportunities to perform bold and exciting work here in NYC. In May 2025, we wrapped our second sold-out production, Rock Bottom, Bottoms Up, featuring 11 actors in new works wrestling with recovery and resilience by four female playwrights.