I grew up in a tree lined suburb just outside of New York City.  My mom,  Valedictorian graduate of the Performing Arts High School, traveled into the city with me,  regularly, to see plays and musicals and I knew early on that I wanted to act.

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I spent years training, privately, in New York and then went upstate to Oneonta for college where I auditioned, performed, took coursework in play analysis, playwriting, improv, story structure,  and scene study,  falling more in love with the craft, itself.

 

Two years into college, I  met an agent through a close family friend, and he  signed me and started booking auditions for me in the city. I transferred to Adelphi University, where I could get on the train to go to castings between classes.   The close proximity to the city also allowed my agent to come out to see me perform in our BFA  productions.

 

In the summer of my junior year, I got cast as a young Italian American girl who had a close relationship with her priest, in a 13 person ensemble play called Sacraments, at the Harold Clurman Theater on theater row. In that show, I earned my Actor's Equity Union card. After graduating, I moved into the city, started bartending to support my pursuit with continued success Off-Broadway, but eventually, I was auditioning for television and film roles out west and felt I needed to move out to California to be in person for those castings. I established a new relationship with an agent in Hollywood, auditioned and studied by day and tended bar at night.

 

I started writing about all of it. Writing allowed me to work at something I loved, without anyone giving me permission. I found there was a resonance in becoming someone else as an actor and developing characters and dialogue as a writer. Story was the thread that tied them together and I loved stories of all kinds. I started writing plays and either acting in them or directing them, wrote short stories, and eventually my first novel, Last Call, about a bartender drowning in the life of a bar, while her best friend was diagnosed with a possibly fatal illness, both central characters enroute to their dreams. You can find it on Amazon.  That story led me to a new novel called Stirred Up, but Not Shaken, which I have completed and am seeking representation to publish traditionally.​

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I lived in Southern California for many years and I now live in Northern California. I have two amazing kids, one an industrial psychologist who has been traveling the world  and writing about what it is to be a digital nomad and one a filmmaker and martial artist instructor. I never forget where I'm from and I go home every year to see my people and get my NY fix.