ABOUT ME
I'm an Atlanta-based voice over, film, television and theater actor. Like most great stories mine begins in Pennsylvania, where my initial obsession with gymnastics gave way to a childhood lived in full-tilt musical theater geekdom. (I still cling to the hope that I will one day play Annie.) I spent my college years doing Very Serious Art and my post-college years doing Very Silly Improv. I've studied Shakespeare at Oxford University, taught creative writing at PS 130 in Brooklyn, and performed with comedy improv groups in over six states in this great land of ours. Lately my days are spent recording voice over work in my home studio (formerly known as our spare closet). I also make award-winning snickerdoodles that I love giving to friends and colleagues. Award. Winning.
NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS
Decatur Dinners (and me!) on City Lights with Lois Reitzes
Decatur Dinners received a ton of press, and rightly so. The ambitious project was featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was all over our local NPR station, WABE. All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Closer Look all did features discussing the scope and impact of this major undertaking. But I must bring special attention to City Lights with Lois Reitzes, whose piece on Decatur Dinners features a performance clip by ME! Listen here to the wonderful conversation between Lois, Out of Hand's Artistic Director Ariel Fristoe and playwright Minka Wiltz, and then enjoy an uncredited mini-performance by yours truly.
Decatur Dinners and The Investigation - The Artist as Activist
August was a good month to be a socially conscious performer in Atlanta. I was thrilled to participate in two different projects whose aim was to inspire change - Out of Hand's Decatur Dinners project, using theater to spark conversations about race over dinner, and a benefit performance of Robert Schenkkan's The Investigation, an adaptation of the Mueller Report. The former brought together over 1000 people on one evening to learn, share and begin the process of honestly talking about the state of race relations in our city. The latter was a collaboration between three of Atlanta theater's best and brightest - Out of Hand, True Colors and Actor's Express - with all proceeds going to the Southern Poverty Law Center and Planned Parenthood Southeast.
