about.

i am a teacher of acting and a director. i delight in teaching acting technique, analysis, clowning, heightened text, and character-work. i believe in a generator of childlike wonder and the possibilities of magic in the mundane. i love to tell stories about the poetics of everyday people in unique communities. i also coach for drama school/industry auditions.

i grew up in the rural farm town of winnebago, il. i grew up on cornfields and unlocked doors and take-your-tractor-to-school-days. on flashlight tag, climbing trees, and backyard bonfires; on humidity and window fans and eyelashes frozen together with ice. i grew up on diet coke and cows, denim and cotton, and the sky and the stars.

after discovering i had a profound hearing loss in my right ear and a severe loss in my left, i was put into private drama classes as a form of speech therapy. from there i fell in love with acting; becoming transfixed by the act of radical empathy that it required.

feel free to reach out with any related inquiries you might have!

training:

BFA: rutgers / mason gross, MFA acting: yale school of drama, postgraduate work (teaching/directing): the juilliard school