Hi. Thanks for stopping by! I’d love to meet you in person, but since we are separated by the mysteries of the interwebs and possibly hundreds of actual miles, this will have to do.
I’m an actor. That’s first. At least for our purposes here. I love performing in many different genres and mediums — musical theater, contemporary theater, classic theater, and film. If there’s a story to tell that is beautiful and shines light on what is true about the world — and the people in the world — I want to be part of it. I want to be part of the story YOU are trying to tell.
If you’re a director, producer, or a casting agent, that means I want to contribute to your project. If you’re an audience member, that means I want to help usher you into a story outside your own. Sometimes it’s the best way to see our lives for what they really are — and what they could become.
Isn’t storytelling wonderful? Isn’t acting a beautiful way to do it? I’m constantly thrilled by the miracle of getting to participate.
My first role was “Sarah, the blind girl” in “The Miracle Worker” at the Irving Community Theater. I was seven and was very serious about my part. “Don’t go, Annie, away,” was the first line I ever said on a stage, and I remember my seven-year-old brain wanting to rewrite the line to say, “Annie, don’t go away!” It was the first time I had to adjust to another’s foreign words coming out of my mouth. It was hard and thrilling, and I was all at once caught up in what it meant to ACT and in the words one used to do it.
Incidentally, I also grew up to be a writer, and mostly I write about motherhood, faith and God at tanglewoodmoms.com. This helps with my various forms of neuroses, which is good general balm for my psyche and creative impulses. (Or maybe acting is better served from a place of DEEP neurosis? I’m not sure.) Before I was a professional performer, I worked in advertising and then magazine editing and writing. I LOVE ME SOME WORDS.
Things I think (I hope) make me a better actor: being a mother of young children. I have two of them, and they teach me daily about astronomically high stakes. They WANT things so intensely — whether it be a popsicle or 5 more minutes on the slide. As actors, we also must identify with what it means to WANT intensely, which can be hard to acknowledge for very adultish adults.
Also: help. I have a lot of help and support from the likes of Gordon, my husband, my parents, in-laws, and the other people in my life who have enabled me to beat a path into a vocation that is rare for a suburban mom in Fort Worth, TX.
At any rate, I’m trying my best to live a creative life. I’m trying to love the world by telling stories. I marvel at the opportunity, and I’d love to do it with you.
I’m an actor. That’s first. At least for our purposes here. I love performing in many different genres and mediums — musical theater, contemporary theater, classic theater, and film. If there’s a story to tell that is beautiful and shines light on what is true about the world — and the people in the world — I want to be part of it. I want to be part of the story YOU are trying to tell.
If you’re a director, producer, or a casting agent, that means I want to contribute to your project. If you’re an audience member, that means I want to help usher you into a story outside your own. Sometimes it’s the best way to see our lives for what they really are — and what they could become.
Isn’t storytelling wonderful? Isn’t acting a beautiful way to do it? I’m constantly thrilled by the miracle of getting to participate.
My first role was “Sarah, the blind girl” in “The Miracle Worker” at the Irving Community Theater. I was seven and was very serious about my part. “Don’t go, Annie, away,” was the first line I ever said on a stage, and I remember my seven-year-old brain wanting to rewrite the line to say, “Annie, don’t go away!” It was the first time I had to adjust to another’s foreign words coming out of my mouth. It was hard and thrilling, and I was all at once caught up in what it meant to ACT and in the words one used to do it.
Incidentally, I also grew up to be a writer, and mostly I write about motherhood, faith and God at tanglewoodmoms.com. This helps with my various forms of neuroses, which is good general balm for my psyche and creative impulses. (Or maybe acting is better served from a place of DEEP neurosis? I’m not sure.) Before I was a professional performer, I worked in advertising and then magazine editing and writing. I LOVE ME SOME WORDS.
Things I think (I hope) make me a better actor: being a mother of young children. I have two of them, and they teach me daily about astronomically high stakes. They WANT things so intensely — whether it be a popsicle or 5 more minutes on the slide. As actors, we also must identify with what it means to WANT intensely, which can be hard to acknowledge for very adultish adults.
Also: help. I have a lot of help and support from the likes of Gordon, my husband, my parents, in-laws, and the other people in my life who have enabled me to beat a path into a vocation that is rare for a suburban mom in Fort Worth, TX.
At any rate, I’m trying my best to live a creative life. I’m trying to love the world by telling stories. I marvel at the opportunity, and I’d love to do it with you.