I am…
. . .an actress and student of the art of acting. Been on stage in one form or another since I was two. (Twas the Night Before Christmas recited at the church Christmas pageant. A stunning debut.) First studied the art with David Downs at Northwestern University. Still studying, no endpoint.
. . .a writer and student of the art of writing going back to secret spiral notebooks hidden under the basement stairs. Frustrated by the lack of stories on stage written for and by women, especially over 50, I’m creating experimental plays exploding canonical, patriarchal stories. I see plays in shapes with significant aural and visual storytelling elements. Solo writing is performative, incorporating sound, video, visuals and design, works meant to live on the stage, page and in installation. Self ventriloquism.
. . .a performance artist living in the interstitial space between script and score, theatre and gallery, a space that comes alive with a single gesture, flowering in collaboration.
. . .a late bloomer, grateful to be a 2023 MFAW graduate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. An incredible experience that has expanded my experience exponentially. Fortunate to count Ruth Margraff, Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson and Nathan Hoks as primary influencers on my work.
. . .a music lover who left serious study behind for theatre. I play a little piano, strum a bit on Maybelle the autoharp, dance with a plaintive melodica and continue to make friends with an accordion half my size. I sing some too.
. . .a thankful mother of two children who seem to be fully functioning adults and wife of a fully functioning husband who also seems to be an adult. And a mourner of the two best Corgis in the world, gone but never forgotten.
. . .a woman steeled from years of life experience. (A true pun.)
And I talk to trees. . .