A Little About me

Pronouns: she/her

I’ve always had a knack for making people laugh and chasing make-believe wherever it led me. I began to perform in community theater while growing up in San Antonio, Texas and a lightbulb lit up inside me. I developed a passion for improv - connecting to my imagination, humor and spontaneity through community.  In high school, I joined the ComedySportz San Antonio ensemble and the lights got brighter.

My dreams led me to Chicago where I studied Playwriting at The Theatre School at DePaul University. While immersing myself in writing, I performed with improv teams around the city. I graduated from The Training Center at The iO Theater where I performed with The Pool. In 2016, I became a mainstage ensemble member at ComedySportz Chicago. I saw firsthand how improv and comedy can change the world off- stage through the power of teambuilding and connection.

After graduation, I felt a longing to study Shakespeare and take a break from improvised work. At The British American Drama Academy’s Midsummer at Oxford program, I spent a month studying Shakespeare and British technique alongside actors from all over the world.

I landed in New York City in 2018, and taught Lower Elementary Drama at Brooklyn Heights Montessori School. I also taught Comedy Club and Puppet World in their after-school program. Getting to connect with my inner child through my students has brought me back to my roots, which are full of memories and imaginative realms. During the pandemic I taught remotely for The Interlochen School of the Arts and also for their Summer Arts Camp. Now I am back in Chicago! I currently am working as Lead Guide within Near North Montessori’s STEAM Studio.

A LITTLE ABOUT MY WORK

I make sense of the world though a lens of laughter.

Don’t misunderstand what I mean by that - I do not think everything is funny. However, I do believe many things are funny-feeling. When something is funny-feeling, it’s uncomfortable, inexplicable. Like a confusing moment where the body cannot decide whether to laugh or cry. A state of mind that feels silly and yet it’s crevices can hurt and bite. This is the land I inhabit when I create.

I make the ugly and evil into creatures that take on a life of their own. They have names and feelings. I like to dress them up with identities through costumes and objects, this helps me laugh at them. To view them as their own entities, takes them outside of my own body, so that the world can laugh along with me.

Moving in my body through the world carries its own experiences. In all my work, there is a presence of my relationship to my body. I’m equally disturbed and inspired by the ways my body stores trauma and rebels against society and the self through food and movement. 

Walking down city sidewalks, I move through the world with my southern warmth, optimism, and in clothes with bold colors, patterns, and sparkles. I channel this into my work, my life.

I’m a disco cowgirl searching for her next adventure.