Let's ramble!July 2024Ohh this one is going to stay with me. I couldn't have asked for a more exciting thesis focus than that of Hellena in The Rover. I am so appreciative to Eleanor Holdridge, our production's director, Alec Wild, the head of our MFA program, and the entire faculty at the academy who supported our efforts and guided us through this rigorous process. And to this cohort, our journey together is just beginning and what at step off this has been! There are no words to express what this time has meant to me. <3
Pardon's the word to all
Semesters one and two here at the academy center on a course schedule that is now complete! Semester 3 is for our thesis projects: two full scale productions in repertory. Here's a quick look back on some of our performances so far! (Cymbeline and Odyssey: A Devised Piece)
As Paul, John, George, and Ringo Like ItNovember 2023
Combining the Beatles and Shakespeare? Sign me up! This winter I am so thrilled to join the cast of As You Like It at Shakespeare Theatre Company as an understudy for Dame Frances/Dame Senior and Corin/Dame Attendant. This unique take on a beloved classic was conceived by Daryl Cloran & Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, adapted and directed by Daryl Cloran, and is definitely one you won't want to miss! If you're in the DC area this holiday season, come and share the love love love!
First Semester Check InSeptember 2023Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy MFA Class of 2024! And we're off!
Just Call Me the Poster Child of ChatterJuly 2023
Now Here We Stand, Unafraid of the FutureMay 2023
A Very Merry Summer in WindsorMarch 2023As another audition season is in full swing I thought I would pop on here and let you know where to find me this summer: along the Saugatucket River! I will be joining The Contemporary Theatre Company in Wakefield, RI on their "Shakespeare by the River" production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. I'll be prattling away as Mistress Quickly :)
The Story Behind the Cool MooseJanuary 2023
"I will move on I will make the T pay!"November 2022
August of 2021 I got an email that I had booked a lead in a musical… today I took my final bow with the hilarious company of T: An MBTA Musical. This show has been such a fun project for the last year and a half, a sweet, goofy, late night on-again-off-again Boston affair. Thanks for letting me be “Alice” lost in “Wonderland” (Station). I made it out of here!
An A+ Weekend at Sister SchoolJuly 2022Just wanted to hop on here to share these production photos (by Adam Richins) with you! Boston's first New Works Festival was a smashing success and I am so proud to have been apart of it. Thank you so much to David Freeman Coleman (playwright, composer, and music director) and Maura Tighe (director) for steering this ship so beautifully!
Summer (Sister) SchoolMay 2022
I am so excited to join in on the fun in Moonbox Productions' Boston New Works Festival this summer. I will be apart of David Coleman's new original musical Sister School in the role of Eleanor Friedan, the Head of Victoria School, fighting to keep the doors of her historic all-girls school open. Click the button below for show information!
A Book-Club Turned Night ClubMarch 2022Prepared to be sick of me! Soon I'll be popping up in your YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok videos with this Cuisinart commercial spot. Filming this piece was a lovely experience, in part from the awesome folks at Small Army. See you around!
Announcement: An MBTA ExtensionJanuary 2022NPR's Seal of ApprovalNovember 2021Late Night Singin
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Christmukkah Comes Early at CDL!
October 2019
New teaching artist adventure! Working with the Center for Dynamic Learning as apart of their Steamm Powered Theatre Program has been SUCH a joy. The production for this fall semester? "The Velveteen Rabbit!" See below my new favorite backstage routine: Bubblegum Bubblegum in a Dish :)
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Revisiting Lenny Magrath
August 2019
Crimes of the Heart is one of the first plays I remember being assigned to read at Ithaca College. I remember loving the story of three sisters, being one of three sisters myself, and even moreso the character of Lenny Magrath. Lenny was this woman who was trapped in her own web of responsibilities, regrets, and insecurities, but she wasn't weak. I ended up performing one of Lenny's monologues in that first semester Acting class and got to live in her shoes for just a few moments of class. Little did I know that I would be cast as her in this 2019 production at MMAS! Lenny is such a rich, complicated character and I have loved this opportunity to get to know my old friend again :) If you're in the area, you won't want to miss this one! I'll include the link for tickets below.
Let's Fringe!
July 2019
July brings the Fringe Festival here in Providence, RI and I am so jazzed to join in the fun this year! I'm performing in Seed and Ivy Theatre Co.'s production of Bedtime Stories with a talented company of Fringe newbies and we truly can't contain our excitement. This summer has just brought me so much to be grateful for and I really feel revived by these wonderful chances to perform and teach in the great RI theatre community!
New Horizons in Teaching
May 2019
In addition to some wonderful performance opportunities, Summer 2019 has also brought really fulfilling teaching artist work for me, including this chance to work with an incredible human services non-profit, Gateways to Change. I am so excited to join the Artists' Exchange teaching artist team in Cranston, RI where I will teach theatre classes three days a week with Gateways to Change's clients, adults with special needs. We will primarily work on script writing, acting, directing, and improv activities and I can't wait to get started.
A Look Back: Peter Pan
March 2019
Check out the promo video for Norwood Theatre's recent production of Peter Pan where I enjoyed dreaming as "Grown Up Wendy" as well as prancing around with the Pirate Ensemble! Onto the next project! More details to come :)
Here We Go!
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It's that time of year again; audition season! Since graduating from Ithaca, I have been so blessed with performance, directing, and teaching opportunities here in Southern New England, but staring down this new year as a full-time freelancer, my head SPINNING with the possibilities! Print out those stacks of head shots and resumes, let's do this!
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Just a lil' pre-audition warm up diddy :)
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Flying Away to the Land of Pirates!
November 2018
From a goofy pirate, to a mature "Grown Up Wendy," to a fly technician helping the children actors take flight, this experience of being in Peter Pan with Norwood Theatre can only be described with one word: joyful! In the pirate ensemble, director Michael Hammond encouraged us to embrace all of the goofy clown elements of the characters and every rehearsal truly felt like training with an improv troupe. That, beautifully balanced with the "Grown Up Wendy" scene work I got to partake in with Equity veteran Jennifer Glick as Peter Pan, rounded out this show as an incredible kickstart into the new 2018-19 theatrical season!
As I travel on my way...
June 2018
The day has finally arrived, to say goodbye to my teaching position at Mt. Hope High School as I transition to freelancing full-time. This job, these students, and this community welcomed me and supported me in ways I could never repay, though I strived to make them proud everyday both with my work in the classroom and through the performances we produced on the Mt. Hope stage. I am forever grateful for this opportunity and am excitedly looking forward to what the future will bring! Featured on the right is where I "signed the wall" of the theater, a Mt. Hope High School alumni tradition. This NTI motto was one that my students heard from me often in class and rehearsal. May they remember it always, on and off the stage!
"Our days are tied to curtains, they rise and they fall."
May 2018
My how time flies! Another show wrapped at Mt. Hope Theatre. I was extremely proud of the finished product this time around. As I watched some of my strongest acting students take their final "senior bow" at the end of this production, I swear I time traveled to that very moment for me during my senior year of high school. The opportunity to revisit high school theatre in all of its craziness, heartache, and glory through this position is one for which I will be forever grateful. Indeed it is true that "we're a special kind of people known as show people, we live in a world full of dreams. Some times we're not too certain what's false and what's real, but we're seldom in doubt about what we feel."
Once Upon a Winter
January 2018
Back at FPAC and psyched to share this hilarious tale! This time, under the direction of fellow Ithaca alumn Larry Sousa, I get to goof around in Once Upon a Mattress as Princess No.12 and a "Lady in Waiting." The direction of this production has been so focused on using extreme physicality and physical comedy to accent the already incredibly witty book. I'm so in love with the world we've created on this stage and am thrilled at the opportunity to mess around in it! If you find yourself in New England this winter, don't miss this one!
Keeping Warm with The Arsonists
November 2017
Every production I've directed as Theatre Director/Teacher at Mt. Hope High School is a blessing, but this one may have been my favorite production so far. Max Frisch's masterpiece, The Arsonists, is ever-relevant in its warnings of blind, willful ignorance. The students excelled in their performances and we could not have been more proud of the final product!
Thank you, Fun Home
November 2017
Do you have that one show that just fills you with joy and appreciation for all that theatre is capable of? I have several, one of which is Fun Home. I am so grateful that this show exists and just as grateful that I got to see this production for the third time (first time in the proscenium staging) as the tour passed through Providence, RI!
Off to Neverland
August 2017
As a part of their August "Pixie Projects," Neverland Children's Theatre in Bristol, RI are featuring my "Audition Like a Boss" workshop this August! Registration is open to kids in fourth through eighth grade, follow the link below.
Checking in: Summer in Duloc
July 2017
Summer 2017 started off with a bang! I had SUCH a blast singing, tapping, and grooving with the eccentric cast of characters at BSU's Family Performing Arts Center this summer. Check out just a few of the memories we shared on stage in Shrek the Musical!