I am a neurodivergent creative artist who works in film and theatre. I am an acting company member of The Hippodrome State Theatre and an Assistant Professor in Acting and Directing at California State University, Fresno. I am a Certified Trainer in Somatic Body Voice Kinesensics with the Lessac Research and Training Institute and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator with ISMETA. I have worked as an Intimacy Director using my training with Theatre Intimacy Education (TIE).
I am a proud union member with the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC), Screen Actors Guild (SAG-Aftra), and Actors Equity Association (AEA). I am also an active member in VASTA and ATHE theatre organizations. My acting has been seen at La Mama NYC, Hippodrome State Theatre, Word for Word/Z Space, Renegade Theatre Experiment, and Nuance Theatre Company, and some of my acting film work has streamed on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Apple TV.
I received my MFA in Theatre from the University of Florida.
My creative research is on Somatic Body and Voice training for performers, the theory and praxis of The Female Gaze as a somatic practice in film and theatre performance, and since 2020, the development of a methodology for my Somatic "The Heart Centered Actor" training which is central to my work.
I teach workshops for the International Lessac Training and Research Institute, and I am an active member of the organization.
In June 2026, I presented my research on somatic performance practices for neurodivergent performers in Athens, Greece at the Arts in Society conference at The University of Athens. At both the 2025 ATHE conference and the 2024 VASTA symposium I presented my research on the use of Lessac Kinesensic BodyVoice with neurodivergent performers in somatic self-teaching. At the 2023 ATHE conference I presented my work on "The Female Gaze: Deconstruction and Adaptation in Creative Process" during the University of Florida's panel presentation "UF: Building Resiliency in the Face of Obstacles". At the 2022 Lessac International Conference, I presented a paper on my research using The Female Gaze as a film director titled "Lessac Body NRG’s and the creation of on-set film language for The Female Gaze: ‘The Feeling Camera".
My playwriting has been in residence, received readings, development workshops, and works-in-progress showings at The Tank NYC, the Purple Rose Theatre Company and Dixon Place. My short story Honeymoon Sweet can be found in The Windsor Review: International Journal.
Some of my directing credits include my experimental feature film SAINT: 5 Etudes for Joan of Arc and my recent stage directing credits include Is This a Room, Twelfth Night, Antigone, The Pliant Girls, Dry Land , and Marie Antoinette.