- Where you were born/where were you raised? I was born in Downers Grove, IL and raised in Lisle, IL (both are in the western suburbs of Chicago)
- Zodiac sign? Aries
- What are/were the careers of your parents? My father owns a flooring business & my mother was a teacher + swimming and diving coach
- Do you have any Siblings?: I have six sisters and one brother (I'm the 6th child)
- Where were you trained?: For school, I studied theatre and Russian language at Northern Illinois University and the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. I've taken other classes at various other places since graduating: Shakespeare with Susan Hart and Jeffrey Carlson, Aloft Circus, Actors Gymnasium, Bristol Renaissance Faire, MACE Stage Combat Courses, Clown with Victor Quezada- Perez through Trap Door Theatre - to name a few.
- Current favorite audition song or monologue to use: Neely from "The Secret Lives of Losers" - a contemporary monologue
- What skill(s) are you excited to share with the audience of Shockheaded Peter?: Stilt walking & dancing
- Why did you want to be a part of Shockheaded Peter? I had never heard of the musical until the audition. When I read more into it and saw how Black Button Eyes wanted to incorporate interesting skills, I became very excited and wanted to be a part of it. I don't often get to break out my more bizarre skills on stage! It has also been a long time since I've done musical theatre which is very exciting!
- Current or recent show in Chicago (other Shockheaded Peter) that you think is must-see: I don't have a particular show currently in mind, but I always suggest looking into productions done by Steep Theatre and Manual Cinema. They do high quality/ beautiful work.
- Some favorite musicals: Hard to pick, but since I was a kid I've always had a soft spot for "The Music Man"
- Favorite or most memorable onstage role as a child/teenager: I played Winnie the Pooh for a community theatre in Naperville my sophomore year of high school
- Worst onstage mishap: I was in a haunted house and working a room where myself and other performers would wear these masks and dart around the room (towards patrons) with foam weapons. The masks had poor periphery vision. Another performer and I collided, I tripped over his back leg (in front of audience members), tore a muscle in my ankle, and had to hobble back stage. Several months of physical therapy followed.
- Worst job you ever had: Jimmy Johns
- Craziest audition story: Around the Holidays a couple years ago, a friend who had discovered I was having trouble finding a decent Christmas tree I could afford offered me a small fake one she said she never used. The night and area she said she would be in Chicago and could drop it off happened to be the night and location I had an audition. She said she would meet up with me beforehand. I was under the impression that this tree was very small (by the way she talked about it). I pictured it to be 2 ft at the tallest and easy enough to carry/ stow to the side when I arrived at my audition. So when she showed up with a 4 ft tall tree (all put together because she couldn't find the box and it still had it's lights wrapped around it) I wasn't sure how this was going to pan out. It's not every day you get to walk into an audition with a Christmas tree and have the monitor and others auditioning look at you like you're crazy. I was very happy to have the tree, but I didn't get a callback to that show...
- Role(s) you’ve been dying to play: Peter Pan