- Where you were born/where were you raised: Springfield, Mo. same house the first 18 years of my life
- Zodiac sign: Capricorn
- What are/were the careers of your parents: father- union bricklayer Mother- secretary
- Do you have any Siblings?: One half-brother (we share a mom) and he's eleven years older than I am. I always say I'm half an only child, half youngest child.
- Where were you trained?: Landers (community) theatre in Springfield, Mo. Northwestern University's opera program and musical theatre certificate, Susan Hart and Jeffrey Carlson's Shakespeare and Chekhov classes, and ongoing assorted classes in Chicago.
- Current favorite audition song or monologue to use: Honestly, I hate everything I have, but I'm working on it.
- What skill(s) are you excited to share with the audience of Shockheaded Peter?: My ability (honed from years of avid Joss Whedon fandom) to appear deceptively in innocent at first and to end up not being at all what I seem.
- Why did you want to be a part of Shockheaded Peter? Ed has a knack for picking such interesting material that you don't often get the opportunity to see anywhere, much less here in the Midwest. I can't wait to see what we make out of this grotesquely funny poetry.
- If you could go back in time and catch any show or performer, what would it be? Young Julie Andrews at the top of her ingenue game.
- Current or recent show in Chicago (other Shockheaded Peter) that you think is/was must-see: Ragtime by Griffin at The Den and Pass Over at Steppenwolf. If you missed The Adding Machine by the Hypocrites, that was one of my favorites; so was Goodbye Cruel World by Strange Tree.
- Favorite showtune(s) of all time: Wouldnt It Be Loverly, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Losing My Mind, Make Our Garden Grow; I've recently become obsessed with Philippa Soo's recording of No One Else from The Great Comet.
- Some favorite musicals: My Fair Lady, A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder, most any of Sondheim's or Gershwin's scores 13. Most played song in your music collection: Back Pocket by Vulfpeck
- Favorite or most memorable onstage role as a child/teenager: Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum when I was 17 at he community theatre / Mrs. Potts when I was 16 in my high school production of Beauty and the Beast.
- Worst onstage mishap: My Philia wig fell off mid-scene during our last Sunday matinee of Forum and I was wearing a nude wig cap so I looked bald. Luckily our Pseudolus was an improv instructor with his own school, and he came to the rescue: "That plague must be REALLY bad; they sure doll you girls up."
- Worst costume ever: My Fleurette the French Maid costume when I was 14 in my first community theatre production: Dirty Work at the Crossroads. I can't begin to describe how dowdy and ill-fitting it was. They pulled a floor length, straight cut, polyester black skirt and a long sleeved, high collared, black blouse from the costume loft, and I wore an apron over that. it was not cute.
- Worst job you ever had: I was the part time administrative assistant at a private equity firm in a high rise downtown that consisted of about fifteen 30- to 60-year-old, white men... who were actually fine. It was the other (female, of course) admin who was full time and our extremely high-strung, female supervisor who made the environment toxic by setting traps for me, never stopping to explain what they wanted then blowing up when things weren't done their way, micromanaging the simplest tasks, and the list goes on. I stayed in that position just shy of six months and my exit interview was with my supervisor because, along with technical and administrative supervisor, she was the HR department.
- Craziest audition story: I auditioned for a Chicago storefront company which shall remain nameless, and it was chaos from the second I stepped in the building. They took me into the room for my appointment, threw a song they had written (badly) at me to learn in front of them (fortunately, I'm a really strong sight reader, but it was in a range you would never expect a soprano to sing), and then did not tell me they'd seen all they needed. After I sang, they talked amongst themselves, one of them got up and left the room, and someone else brought a puppy in. I stood there for awhile wondering what to do, then asked if I could pet the dog. Meanwhile, they had brought their next actor in for her audition, and the auditors were acting like I was in their way. Once I noticed the other actor, I gave the pooch a scratch, thanked them, and ran out of there.
- Role(s) you’ve been dying to play: Eliza Doolittle, Harper from Angels in America, Cass from Wonder of the World, Fred from the TV series Angel, Amy Adams' entire career (yes, even her role as Debra Messing's bratty sister in The Wedding Date), every character written by Jane Austen
- What were you afraid of as a child? the dark, strangers, playground slides, roller coasters (still am), the death of a parent (still am), gorillas, the Are You Afraid of the Dark series on Nickelodeon, the waterfall you had to walk under at the main entrance to Bass Pro.