I’m a writer, performer, teacher, and intimacy director based in New York’s Hudson Valley. I love storytelling, and I’ve spent a couple of decades creating and helping others create all kinds of stories in all kinds of contexts.
As an actor, I trained in classical theater at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the University of Delaware’s Professional Theater Training Program (RIP) and at Michael Howard Studios, where I was lucky enough to be a regular at the Shakespeare Workout. I played ingenues, leading ladies, snarky servants, scheming courtiers, and assorted misfits and weirdos including a bored pirate, a mystical hag, a fussy little mayor, a charades-obsessed maid, and a Christmas sheep.
As a writer and storyteller, I have an MFA in creative nonfiction from the New School and have appeared on stages and podcasts throughout New York and beyond. I created and hosted Story Social, an open mic at QED, for two years. Check out the stories page for a few examples. Along the way I had a parallel career developing brand messaging platforms and training teams of writers at large enterprises, spent four years at IBM embedded with a team of AI engineers, and regularly consult as a user experience and digital communications strategist. You can find details on that work here.
As a teacher, I was both a teaching artist and company member at the National Shakespeare Company and the Texas Shakespeare Festival and taught acting and playwriting at Manhattan University. I taught storytelling for The Moth and as a guest teaching artist at CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism and served as a mentor and curriculum director for Girls Write Now. In 2016 I co-founded Rasa Advising, a consultancy that trained public defenders and other criminal justice advocates to argue more effectively for their clients by using narrative structures in their work, with an emphasis on recognizing and counteracting inherent bias.
I trained as an intimacy director at IDC Professionals. I use my extensive training to support directors, actors, and producing organizations by establishing collaborative spaces and designing choreography that helps tell our most deeply human stories with creative freedom, safety, clarity, and precision.
I love talking about any and all of these things! Say hello anytime.