Personal Bio

I was born and raised in Queens, New York. Ever since I was a little girl, I imagined myself being an actress…even though I was painfully shy! I was always fascinated by what it would be like to be other people. When I was 12, we had a lip-synching contest at our school and my friends and I lip-synched and danced to the Backstreet Boys. The feeling I had on stage was incredible and I never felt more alive. At a young age I knew that this is what I was meant to do. As I got older, I took acting classes in and outside of high school and was active in the theatre department.

While I was at Queensborough Community College, I had a chance to participate in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festivals for three years. The festival consisted of workshops, competing against other schools around the New York state region and I was nominated twice for an Irene Ryan scholarship award for my performances in Lysistrata as Old Man Choragos and A Hatful of Rain as Celia Pope.

I also had a chance to participate in a Greek theatre festival in Cyprus performing a scene from Antigone as Antigone. I then graduated from Queens College receiving my B.A. in theatre. I had the opportunity to do a summer study abroad program with Queens College in Galway, Ireland. We studied the history of Ireland and Irish plays, The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge and Translations by Brian Friel. I performed scenes from The Playboy of the Western World as Pegeen Mike at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Currently I am part of a theatre company called The Actor’s Project NYC.

So, what is this girl all about?

My main focus is theatre, but television and film work as well which I have been continuing to study in. The types of genres I do are comedy and drama. I am mostly a character actress. I can change my physical appearance from one extreme to another. In comedies, I usually play the quirky, odd-ball, goofy, down-to-earth type of characters. In dramas, I play strong-willed, yet emotional, sensitive, vulnerable, "saddest girl in the world" type of characters. After college, I continue to stay in class, work with a private acting coach and have taken acting classes at the Barrow Group Theatre, Stella Adler and Actors Connection.

Awards

Queens College- Robin Hirshfield Miller Memorial Award
Queensborough Community College- Beverly Lockwood Memorial Award