My Story

I’m an actor, performer, model, educator, singer, dancer, just about anything creative you can think of, I will love having a go at.

I’m from Washington, DC, though I spent the majority of my formative childhood years in the Middle East – specifically, in Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. 

Living abroad there, I wasn’t afforded the opportunities to study acting, though I always knew I wanted to be an actor. Especially in Saudi Arabia, there aren’t any movie theaters, let alone theater companies.

I remember getting bootleg videos, from my father’s dealer, and watching them sprawled on my parents’ bed. Those movies were my window into acting, film, theatre, the whole community. I remember watching a VHS of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, shot on a shaky handheld in the movie theater, and that was my introduction to Shakespeare, at a young age. My mom saw how moved I was, and gave me a book of his sonnets, which she’d had since she was a teenager, in the 70’s. Thus began a lifelong love affair.

As soon as we moved back to the DC area, I threw myself into every reasonable opportunity I could think of. I did community theatre, acting classes, dance, and private voice lessons. I was involved with every school show, and in high school, I was on the dance team. On weekends and over summers, I trained with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, as well as the Studio Theatre Company. The majority of my free time, though, was with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where I studied Commedia Dell’ Arte, and was granted special entry into Floyd King’s adult acting Shakespeare intensives. I ended up interning with STC’s education department two years in a row, during college, which is how I earned a passion for teaching. 

I got my theatre degree from Pace University, with a minor in Dance, and studied abroad at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, through NYU’s Tisch School. 

Post graduating, I shifted my focus toward film, while maintaining my study and practice with classical theatre. 

My Mission