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Last year, I scared the living daylights out of you for your birthday. This year, even though I couldn’t make it to pop out of some unassuming place, I’m still with you in spoooky celebratory spirit! Even if I’ve said it before, i
 
 
 

Meet my family-for-a-day!

December 10, 2021

I had such a wonderful and fun time shooting a commercial for a well known home brand today (not sure I can mention what it is yet). I got to be a “mom for a day”, and my “family” were all such fun and talented people. And aren’t we just so cute??

La La Land and O-Ophelia

July 17, 2021

So I took a trip out to California. And it has been awesome. Met up with some wonderful humans, made some connections.

Also, I’ve now finished the principal photography on the newest Gorilla Rep Shakespeare project - Hamlet, where I am playing Ophelia! It was again fun and challenging to work collaboratively but still remotely with a phenomenal group of creative folks. I can’t wait to see how it comes out!

So all in all, not a bad summer, so far. :)

Pandemic Shakespeare

April 28, 2021

Back when the first big shutdown happened last year - businesses, schools, restaurants, and of course, pretty much all film, television, and theatre - I was still in some of the roughest months of my own grief and wondering what in the heck was going to happen next in what was already a pretty terrible year.

Turned out - it was that I would get a call from Christopher Carter Sanderson, director of Gorilla Rep (a company I have worked with a number of times over the years, from “Joan of Arc” - one of my first professional plays in NYC, to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as both Helena and Titania in separate years). He explained that in the horror and uncertainty that this nascent pandemic was bringing, it also brought with it an opportunity to do something that hadn’t really been done before, and something he had wanted to do for a long while: an all 100% close up, complete version of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”. And he wanted to see if I was interested in the role of Lady Macbeth.

I was definitely interested. And also definitely terrified. It was understood we would all be shooting remotely, only seeing the person in the scene with us during communal zoom rehearsals. My process ended up being to just leave the camera rolling as I did my takes, imagining my scene partner down the barrel of the lens. It was an amazing experience - difficult, and challenging to be responsible for all the aspects of shooting (lighting, sound, camera, and actor), but it also gave me an outlet (and a fitting one) for all the emotions still churning in me from everything that had happened in the last four to five months. The loss, the grief, the anger, the confusion, and, every now and again, some hope.

I wasn't sure how it would all turn out - and it turned out exceedingly well! The film has now been in many festivals and screenings, including being an official selection of the Berlin Underground Film Festival, and winning Best Director!

NOW, a year later, off the heels of that production, Gorilla Rep is now doing Hamlet - and I am grateful to have been asked back to play Ophelia. We are almost done shooting now, so be on the lookout. I can't wait to see how this one turns out.

To learn more about Gorilla Rep, check out their website! www.gorillareptheater.org

Thrilled to be a part of this project!

August 6, 2020

My first official, acting related update! I am so excited and grateful to have been brought on as a part of this fan-made project for the well known Warhammer 40K game/story. The folks over at Lost Legion have done an absolutely beautiful job with this teaser, and I’m sure I’m not the only one (for many reasons) excited about the release of the first “episode” come September. Take a look - and see if you can tell which voice is mine! And, if you are an instant fan the way I was, give them a subscribe, both on YouTube, and on their Patreon.


Edit: The original trailer had to be taken down… because Games Workshop picked up the project! I am soooooo excited, proud, and joyous for the entire Lost Legion team! Congratulations!

 BIG NEWS!

June 27, 2020.
The NEW website is live! Obviously, if you’re here, you already know.

I started the overhaul of my website last year, in early December. Little did I know that my entire world would be turned upside down by the end of the month. Just before the beginning of 2020, I lost my life partner, my co-captain, Dave.

If you want to learn more on my ongoing journey with loss, grief, hope, and courage, check out my Instagram, where I occasionally post updates. I believe that speaking about our struggles can lead to strength and understanding, as well as inspiration and hope for others that they may resonate with. After all, as an actor, an artist - I tell stories. Stories to connect and to heal. To entertain, to question, to enlighten, to communicate, and to inspire. And sometimes the hardest story to tell can be our own.

So, as I launch this website, I can’t help but think of Dave, who always told me to follow my dreams and was constantly encouraging me to be my best self, creatively and otherwise. And going on six months without him has been some of the hardest and most unbearable time of my own life. But I know he wouldn’t want me to give up. He always told me to stand up and shine. To roar.

I love you, LPF. Always and forever. I wish you were here… I hope I make you proud.

Let’s do this.