In my 20’s I tested out many options for what to do with my life. I double-majored in English and French graduating in three years, started a masters in creative writing and another one in education, worked in a kitchen doing food prep (where I met my husband!), studied graphic design and oil painting for a year and a half, took floral design classes and worked at a florist, built frames and cut glass and mats at an art gallery/frame shop. I was even pre-med for a week in college!

Then I remembered how happy I felt as a teenager doing theater in high school and decided to take some local acting classes in Nashville, TN where I grew up. I was lit up with joy and a new mission to take all the classes I could. When I had exhausted all the possibilities locally, I new I needed professional training if I wanted to make a real go of being a professional actor. So I applied to graduate programs in New York and Atlantic Acting School’s conservatory program.

When I moved to New York in 2000 to train at Atlantic, I felt more at home in the city than I had felt anywhere else I had lived and I had found my people. After graduating, I worked with graduate directors at Columbia University for a year, took two plays to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and made life long friends and collaborators. I spent years doing theater all over the city from the Bronx to Bensonhurst (who knew Irene Ryan, Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies, had a theater named after her there!).

I was offered a teaching job at Atlantic Acting School in 2003 and I’m still there teaching speech, voice, and monologue classes for NYU/Tisch and full-time conservatory students. I also was signed with Atlas Talent Agency that same year and continue to have a successful relationship with my amazing team there.

Voice over has been my main focus for the past 15 years while I have been raising two children here in Brooklyn, and while I still love my VO world, I am excited to continue to expand my career in film and tv. There are so many wonderful worlds to inhabit and I want to be a part of them. When I’m not teaching or acting, you can find me walking my dog, May, exploring the city and spending time with my friends and Mr. Honaker.