I love to tell stories. When asked “what do you do?” I never really know what to tell them. Somedays, I’m an actor. Somedays, I’m a director. Somedays, I’m a coach. Somedays, I’m a designer. Whatever job I am doing, all I know for sure is that I am trying to tell stories.

I saw my first musical when I was 4 years old. The curtain went up on that community theatre production of Annie Warbucks and I was hooked. I did my first show 3 years later - playing a Lion in a production of Benjamin Britten’s Operetta Noye’s Fludde (Noah’s Flood) with the Chippewa Valley Theatre Guild and I have been onstage or backstage telling stories ever since.

By the time I graduated from High School and went to college, I had worked on over 50 productions either as an actor, a set & lighting designer, a scenic artist, or as a specialty props person. I went to the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and graduated with a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a Double Emphasis in Performance & Theatre for Youth Studies / Education.

Since then, I have travelled all over the country working as an actor, director, designer, and as a stage manager. You can find out more about my work in those fields on the different pages of this site. In all of the work I have done, I am most proud of my work as a theatre educator. While I love creating theatre, I love training others in it even more. I founded the online actors training and resource company Stage Door Unlocked, LLC in 2015 and currently work with actors, singers, and performers in over 35 states (every US Time Zone!) and 12 countries appearing on everything from community and educational theatre to regional, national tour, and Broadway & West End stages as well as in national tV / film and commercial projects. Often times, I find I am more proud of my client’s careers than I am my own.

One of my favorite things is traveling all over the country doing workshops and clinics with young performers and sharing my love of story telling with them. To date, I have had the privilege of working with well over 5000 students.

I moved Stage Door Unlocked back to my hometown of Chippewa Falls WI in 2018. This allowed me to not only bring back to my hometown everything I have learned from my work all over the country, it has also allowed me to bring new life into the theatre community that gave me my start.

When I am not busy coaching, directing, or figuring out the next stories I can tell, I can be found hanging out with my dog Macchiato and my cat Fibby watching movies or reading a good book.