I am an artist in every sense of the word. I’ve always had an active imagination and an insatiable curiosity, which my parents encouraged and fostered. Since the day I could hold a pencil, I’ve sketched, painted, sculpted... you name it. Growing up, if I wasn’t playing piano, running around the soccer field, aiming for that sweet spot behind shortstop, or singing, I had my nose in a book.

Unlike many of my peers, I did not act at a young age. After seeing the movie American Beauty for the second time in the theatre, I sat in stunned silence because something in me went, “That’s IT!!!” It took a drastic last-minute change in college plans and majors to figure out that "IT" was Acting. I had always had a passion for film, but the lightbulb moment in Karen Hirst's "Respect for Acting" class solidified my path for me, and the rest, as they say, is history.

While I made some lifelong friends there, the Academy of Art didn’t challenge me enough academically or artistically, and their Acting Program was relatively undeveloped in 2000/2001, so at the advice of Michael Carroll, I pursued professional training at the American Conservatory Theatre, and transferred to San Francisco State University to earn my B.A. in Drama.

Once I started studying at ACT, my hunger for knowledge, experience and the stage increased exponentially. The more I studied and read, rehearsed and performed, the more my passion for acting grew and I began to realize how essential it was--and still is--for my life. Then, I was incredibly fortunate to study in BADA's Midsummer in Oxford program which proved to be the life-altering linchpin that brought together all of my training at SFSU, the Academy of Art, and ACT and shaped me into the actress and woman that I am today.

I am incredibly grateful to have discovered my Bliss: the thing that gives me goose bumps, that keeps me fired-up, passionate and in love with life. I also feel very strongly that my participation in life as an actor is a sacred endeavor. Stories and myths have been passed from generation to generation since before time was time, and I believe they are the invisible ties that connect us all, no matter what language we speak.

If I can make someone in the audience laugh or smile, take the edge off of their day, make them forget about all their worries and world weariness and take them for a ride with a story, stoke a person's love of language and words, get one person to think about something in a new way, or if I can simply bring out truth through our endeavors on stage, I feel that I have done my job.

I believe that I can do anything I set my mind to, I’m an optimist both by nature, nurture and choice, am level headed and patient, and I love a good challenge. I have an incredible foundation of love and support, I truly love creating art through ensemble, mask, music, theatre and film work, I’m very passionate about acting and theatre, and I never, ever want to stop learning.

Whatever I choose to commit to, I do so completely. I strive to be true to myself, my passion, to live fully, and to keep myself on my own path. Like the inimitable and brilliant Irina Brown once told me, "There's nothing like jumping off a cliff to get you started." I've leapt, and I tell you what: even with all the ups and downs, it's absolutely marvelous.