How it Began…
Across my twenty-five years as a professional stage and screen actor, I carried what I thought of as “high ambition,” but in truth, it was a relentless dissatisfaction. No achievement, performance, or opportunity ever felt like enough. Coupled with industry narratives such as “the show must go on” or “those who can’t do, teach,” this mindset cultivated unhealthy competitiveness, deep fear of failure, porous boundaries, substance reliance, and chronic burnout—patterns I ignored for years because I believed they were simply part of the job.
When the pandemic arrived, something unexpected happened: I felt calm. With auditions halted and performance demands lifted, I discovered just how deeply I had desensitized myself to stress. What I had labeled as resilience was actually emotional suppression—stress stored under the surface that emerged through explosive outbursts at home and harmful coping habits I had come to accept as normal.
That realization marked a turning point.
I began training as a mental health coach and slowly pieced together what had been missing in my own life: nervous system literacy, somatic awareness, mindfulness, and trauma-informed self-understanding. I learned I could heal what I had spent years overriding. I could imagine returning to acting one day with agency, self-knowledge, and the capacity to walk away from roles or environments that compromised my wellbeing.
After several years focused on coaching, I returned to performing in 2025—this time with myself as the research subject. I built and tested a methodology for attuning to internal parts, establishing true consent in body and mind, and advocating for my needs from contract negotiation to performance practice.
I had nearly abandoned a career I loved because participating in the industry as I once did felt too costly. And I think often about the countless brilliant artists who have left because they lacked the tools or support to navigate that cost.
If performers learn to advocate for themselves with clarity, compassion, and embodied consent—if we know what a true “yes” or a firm “no” feels like in our bodies, and what’s at stake when we ignore those messages—we can transform power dynamics. We can make phrases like “this is a safe space” mean something real, because safety will exist within us first.
Empowered Performers — artists with agency, boundaries, embodied consent, and an unwavering belief that wellbeing is not negotiable.
Resumes & Reviews
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SPECIALITY
As a coach, I specialize in empowering and supporting clients to tap into security within themselves as a foundation for personal and professional success. By utilizing somatic and nervous system awareness, as well as traditional therapeutic modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment therapy and Dialectic Behavior Therapy I help individuals create agency and momentum in their own lives. Creator of The Empowered Performer Project which seeks to support the unique mental and emotional needs of performing artists by teaching them how to step into and out of performance safely through the use of somatic therapy and mind/body education.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Fresh Path NY: (Oct 2020-2023)
Responsibilities include life and relationship coaching for individuals and couples. I also created blogs and social media live events around ethical non-monogamy, polyamory and the benefits of coaching for all people.
-Whole Person Coaching Method
-Trauma Informed Coach
-Somatic Attachment Therapy
Public Speaking Coaching (2021-present)
Responsibilities include coaching high ranking Diplomats and Ambassadors at the Foreign Service Institute at the US State Department in public speaking techniques
-Basics of Public Speaking and Techniques of Effective Communication.
Lyra Health (Jan 2023-Present)
Responsibilities include supporting clients with mild to moderate anxiety/depression/stress to better understand their current patterns of thinking and behaving that lead to a decrease in wellbeing, and teach tools of mindfulness, body/emotional awareness, thinking traps, values, communication, boundaries, and acceptance.
EDUCATION
Coach Training World (ACTP ICF Accredited program)
-International Coaching Federation Credentialed
-Associate Coaching Certification
-Professional Coaching Certification
-Certified Professional Whole Person Coach ACTP, CPC, WPCC,
-Trauma Informed Coach
The Embody Lab
-60hr Somatic Attachment Therapy Certification
-Internal Family Systems Level 1,2,3 Certification
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FILM/TELEVISION
NEW AMSTERDAM Co-Star NBC
LAW & ORDER: SVU Co-Star NBC
BULL Co-Star CBS
KRINGLE TIME Daphne Deep Structure Productions
LAST STRKE Elaine ALPA Mutimedia
CAPE CIVILIAN Mary Charade LLC
DICOVERY CHANNEL PSA Principle WILL interactive/Dir. Skip Schwink
THE CHALLENGE Danniel Emmerson
THEATER
INHERIT THE WIND (Winter 2026) E.K. Hornbeck Arena Stage/Dir. Ryan Guzzo Purcell
TWELFTH NIGHT Orsino, Folger Theatre/Dir Mei Ann Teo
SCENARIOS Patricia, Studio Theatre/Dir Tiffany Nichole Green
WORKING Delores, Grace, Terry, The Labor Heritage Foundation/Dir. Shanara Gabrielle
SHIPWRECK Teresa, Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company/Dir. Saleem Ali
VANITY FAIR George,Lesser Pitt, Briggs and others, Shakespeare Theatre Company/Dir. Jessica Stone/American Conservatory Theatre/Dir. Jessica Stone
HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE Lil’Bit, Round House Theatre/Dir. Amber McGinnis
GLORIA Gloria/Nan, Woolly mammoth Theatre Company/Dir. Kip Fagan
BOTICELLI IN THE FIRE Clarice, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company/Dir. Marti Lyons
DIGGING UP DESSA Esther, Kennedy Center/Dir. Rives Collins
THE RETURN HER, Mosaic Theatre/Dir. John Vreeke
FICKLE: A FANCY FARCE Flaminia, Olney Theatre Center/Dir. Eleanor Holdridge
COME FROM AWAY** Bonnie, Ford’s Theatre/Dir. Christopher Ashley
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF * Maggie, Round House Theatre/ Dir. Mitch Hebert
BAD DOG Abby, Olney Theatre Center/Dir. Jeremy Cohen
THE NIGHT FAIRY. Raccoon/Spider, Imagination Stage/Dir. Jeremy Skidmore
RICHARD III Lady Anne, Folger Shakespeare Theatre/ Dir. Robert Richmond
LATE: A COWBOY SONG Red, No Rules Theatre Co./ Dir. Rex Daugherty
THE CONTAINER. Mariam, Baltimore Center Stage/ Dir. Johanna Gruenhut
BECKY SHAW Suzanna Round House Theatre/Dir. Patricia McGregor
CONTRACTIONS Emma, Studio Theatre/Dir. Duncan MacMillian
THE HISTORY OF INVULNERABILITY Lois Lane/Jolan, Theatre J/Dir. Shirley Serotsky
STOP KISS Sara, No Rules Theatre Company/Dir. Holly Twyford
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST Rosaline, Shakespeare Theatre Company ACA/Dir. Brendon Fox
TWELFTH NIGHT Viola American Shakespeare Center/ Davis McCallum
MACBETH Malcolm American Shakespeare Center
HENRY IV PART 1 Lady Percy American Shakespeare Center/ Jim Warren
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Beatrice American Shakespeare Center/ Jaq Bessel
KING LEAR Cordelia American Shakespeare Center/ Jim Warren
CYMBELINE Imogen American Shakespeare Center/ Ralph Cohen
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Titania/Philistrate American Shakespeare Center
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Cecily American Shakespeare Center/ Nick Hutchinson
EDUCATION/TRAINING
MFA: The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University
BA: Western Michigan University (Theatre Major, Dance Minor—Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Modern, Ballroom)
PERFORMING ARTS DANCE THEATRE- 4 year member
AWARDS: Walter L. Wright III award for Exceptional Promise in the Dramatic Profession
SPECIAL SKILLS
Stage Combat: SAFD Certified with Honors: Brad Waller: Unarmed, Dagger, Rapier/Dagger, Single Sword. Certified: Broadsword, Small Sword, Sword and Buckler Instruments: Guitar. Mandolin. IPA Proficient. Rock Climbing. Juggling. Horseback riding. Skating. Skydiving. Drivers License. Manual Transmission. Passport. Marathoner.
Helen Hayes Award – Best Actress in a Play *Helen Hayes Award – Best Ensemble in a Musical
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