My Story…

I have been a curious investigator all my life. This part of me was especially activated when I discovered the theater at age 12. After working on short films and plays in the Boston area for a few years, I attended the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA (class of '11), and then went on to get a BFA in Performance from the University of Michigan School for Music, Theatre & Dance (class of '15). I have performed professionally in theatre and television between Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and Indianapolis. I adore this art. It will forever be a part of how I see the world. 

I entered an ecstatic dance space for the first time in 2015. That day changed my life. Though I continued to perform, my relationship to performance as 'my everything' started to shift—ultimately in a healthy way. Ecstatic dance and containers like it gave me a new lens to feel through. From 2015-2020 I went on a quest to form a new relationship with my body, and how I wanted to make a positive impact in the world. I had been teaching movement and voice to teen actors for a few years, and began to expand my vision on the healing benefits of theatre, movement and voice.

I was participating in trainings in embodied dance, holistic coaching, somatic trauma release, primal movement, and offering my own workshops. The merging of theatre, movement and vocal expression have become an inseparable part of how I unite my work in the arts with the health and wellness world, and an inseparable part of how I connect with myself daily. Aside from my formal trainings, I can’t say enough how much is learned through living. There have been countless mentors, teachers, and guides that have been essential in my growth, whether they knew it or not. Relationships, experiences, places, people. While I can’t name all of you here, I can say, thank you from my whole heart for helping me become who I am. 

The more I learn, the more I return to this truth that the body is the teacher. This is the truth that guides my work.