Right up front, I should say that I feel like a first class dork even having a website at all. The internet has not proved to be the amazing superhighway of information and communication that I used to think it would be. I always imagined I could spend hours upon hours surfing and chatting and getting smarter and doing my banking; as it turns out, the internet is able to keep me amused for maybe an hour, tops. (I'm not interested in online porn, see.) But Marcus says that soon all the other actresses will have websites, and it's the wave of the future, and he'll design the whole thing, and he can really be very persuasive when he wants to be. He's a smoothie.

But this section is supposed to be a brief history of me! Like any actress can achieve brevity when talking about herself.

I was born in England and lived there for a short while until my parents moved back to the States. I grew up primarily in Alabama and Virginia, attending performing arts schools and programs from about the age of 12. For high school I was accepted to the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. A lot of people imagine that a fine arts school in Alabama is something of an oxymoron. (Snotty, isn't it?) Nothing could be further from the truth. ASFA is a really amazing program for young artists with gifts in dance, music, writing, art and theatre. The training I received there has held me in good stead as an actor ever since, and I cannot overestimate how much I value the time I spent there. I can't say that I'm very familiar with what's going on at ASFA these days; I know that the school has undergone a lot of change, but I imagine they are still turning out free-thinking, imaginative and powerful young artists. Check out their website on my links page.

After I graduated ASFA I was accepted at Miami University of Ohio, where I spent the next four years obtaining a BFA in theater performance. I was very fortunate to work with a lot of excellent professors and directors during my time there. Not to mention being surrounded by an amazing group of very talented aspiring actors and designers who continue to form a very solid, very supportive group of friends to this day. (That was like a little cyber-shout out…)

Once I got my degree, I was at a little bit of a loss as to what to do next. Some friends of mine were moving up to Chicago to make a go at the scene there, so I decided to throw in my lot with them. I spent the next five years there, figuring some things out, learning the business, doing theatre and basically trying to keep from falling flat on my ass. Chicago is, I think, a good starting place for young actors. There are a lot of very ambitious, hardworking people there. I learned a great deal about professionalism and commitment during my time in Chicago. Unfortunately, I felt that for me, there was a certain ceiling in terms of how far I could really take myself professionally and began to think about moving on. I was really isolated from family, who are mostly on the East coast, and I began to think that New York would ultimately be a better choice for me. I got a lead on a sublet, packed all my earthly belongings into a Ryder truck before I had a chance to talk myself out of it, and I've been here ever since. Anyone who has read this far is probably a family member or maybe an old college classmate who successfully completed a google search after wondering whatever happened to me, one day at work when the boss wasn't around and there wasn't a whole lot to do. This is to say, they already know most of what there is to know.

But for anyone who might not know me, who might be looking at this site with an eye towards employing me, or giving me an audition, I can tell you that I'm really committed to doing the best job I can, I'm not a diva, and I'm always growing. I have a great sense of professionalism without taking myself too seriously. I'm really earnest about working and working hard.

So. I guess that's it then. Um, thanks. Really. Thanks for being here.