I was born and raised in Tenafly, NJ until the age of seven when a desire for greener space and a different lifestyle inspired my parents to move our family to the isolated mountain town of Rangeley, Maine. It was in the woods and on the lakes that I developed an appreciation for the outdoors, from skiing and hiking to working on my father’s tree service crew, and learned how to always blur the lines between work and play.

I began attending Brown Ledge Camp in Colchester Vermont when I was twelve and it was there that I fell in love with theatre. On the shores of Lake Champlain I learned to build sets, stage managed and performed in my first plays and later as a counselor directed, designed, and taught young women how to apply those skills using their own creative expression.

I spent my junior and senior years of high school at Pomfret School in Connecticut. My two years there prepared me well to attend Middlebury College in Vermont. At Middlebury I found an inspiring community of professors and peers who challenged me to explore academics, nurtured my explorations of theatre and my own development as a creative artist. I graduated in February 2007 Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors with a Theatre major and minor in Political Science. Whether acting, light designing, writing plays, producing a new-play festival or my own senior thesis, I always sought ways to immerse myself in all aspects of theatre.

While at Middlebury, I helped found a non-profit organization called Project BioBus with eleven other friends. We took the fall semester of 2004 off from our formal studies and traveled around the country teaching at schools and public events about renewable fuels and climate change. We lived on a biodiesel-fueled school bus, spent three months traveling the country from coast to coast, introducing young people to ideas of conservation and environmental responsibility.

Other summer adventures of the past few years include an apprenticeship with the Bread and Puppet Theatre Troupe in Glover Vermont, under the leadership of Peter Schumann, and two summers acting and working with the Potomac Theatre Project in Washington, DC and New York City.

I moved to Washington, DC in the fall of 2007 to pursue a career in theatre and found a supportive and vital community, one that I am eager to continue to explore and grow with.