WELCOME!

I am a small town girl from northwest Ohio farm country.  My dad is an artist and was a toy designer and my mom was a teacher/homemaker.  They have had tremendous faith in all of their four children. We have a really close family that gets along and works together everyone doing their own part.

Acting gives me purpose.  When I am in the process I am actually more energized.  I love my involvement with my “family” of actors, directors, and teachers.  I am by nature a very sensitive, maybe over sensitive person but that is what this art/business is about.  I am confident on one hand but am deeply private and lean toward shyness.  Acting draws me out and enables me to give from my depths.  I often feel inarticulate and this is a vehicle that enables me to express myself.  I can be very insecure and unsure but I have to take risks and trust truth to come through.  My work is to develop my character to that level of being.   That doesn’t mean I don’t have stage fright – I have had massive anxiety and lack of faith in myself but I just aim to keep moving forward.  Acting has forced me to be a stronger person and I enjoy myself this way.  It has also forced me to have more faith and pray for miracles in the things I can not control.

Acting is vulnerability on a huge scale.  It is risky to open myself up and let everyone see how foolish I can be.  Many times I’d just rather sit home and read books and cook for my family but my spirit is restless to be doing this.

The people I have trained with have been the light at the end of the tunnel for me.  I feel like the luckiest person on earth.

Acting is about divine imperfection-some of the actions that I have taken in my life seem to be failures and painful but have turned out to be things that changed my life to make in 1000% better.  Humanness and being loved, hated and loving yourself in spite of it, well that’s what we all hunger for.  To be able to welcome others into my world is such a privilege and honor.

My role in Miss Julie was the first I did after a long hiatus of raising my family.  We did it in an intimate setting-in a coffeehouse with the thunder and lighting shaking the building.  It was a stupendous welcome back for me.

Filming Fallen Petals was an incredible reward for an intense rehearsal period.  I feel that I was ordained to be in this film that it was made for me.  It is such a joy to work with such passionate and dedicated people.

I get very bored if I am not working on some project. I am constantly working on being an actor at the Film Actors’ Studio where  I am always challenged to new levels.

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"Her naturalness on film is only compounded by her versatility and truth. A very gifted woman."
 --Lon Bumgarner

“Eminently directable” --Marilyn Carter