When I sit down with someone that I’m meeting for the first time, I often start with, “Tell me your story. Where’d you come from and how’d you get here?” So I’ll tell you mine.

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I was born and raised in Indiana and grew up in a musical household. I was singing before I could talk and started dancing at age 3. My middle school didn’t have a dance team, so I started one. My high school dance team had been dissolved a couple years prior to my arrival, so I re-started that one too. All the while, I was being recruited to play basketball and to be the next drum major, but I just wanted to dance and sing. I used to say if I could just dance and sing behind Bernadette Peters, I’d be the happiest person on the planet.

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A proud alumna of Terre Haute North Vigo High School (Go Patriots!), I went on to study Theater at Indiana State University (Go Sycamores!). It was the first semester my freshman year when I fell in love with Stage Management. I continued to study Music and Dance, but I knew I had found what I was supposed to do as a career.

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I worked regionally across the country until I moved to New York City in 2013. I built a great career in my first seven years doing everything from continuing to work regionally, to working showcases to Broadway and doing events and galas. Obviously, that all changed in March, 2020.

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How can I be part of making real systemic change? Who are the people truly doing the work and walking the walk? My priorities have shifted and I will make the time for my family and friends and travel.

 

The world needs more kindness and compassion. I believe in the human ability to choose the positive over the negative. Be a kind human. Do good work. Choose Joy.