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Acting

I have loved musical theater since I was two years old, when I would take a bath and then sit in front of the tv and watch The Sound of Music every night. My first show was when I was five, a play I had written at an art camp one summer. I started performing in musicals and plays in middle school, and haven’t stopped since. I studied acting at Stella Adler Studio through NYU Tisch. While I was at Bard, I performed in plays, musicals, devised works, and workshops. To the right is a picture from a workshop production of Show and Tell, written by Max Vernon and directed by Ellie Heyman.

Singing

I have been singing before I can remember. I joined Uniting Voices Chicago when I was eight years old, where I was privileged enough to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and sing at Millennium Park in Chicago. To the right is a picture from my Moderation Project, a self-divised musical theater cabaret called Don’t Break. This show declared my major as Musical Theater Vocal Performance, something that had never been done before at Bard College.

Writing

I loved writing for a long time, but felt like I was not “good enough” to pursue it. I would write poetry in private, write essays I love in college, and post them on my Substack. But I realized the difference between someone who writes and a Writer is effort and courage. During my sophomore year of college, I began my play Beautiful Girl. It is about my late grandmother, Susie, and how she navigates life after the loss of her firstborn daughter, Kim, which is where I get one of my middle names. While it is still a work in progress, as all writing is, I have included a writing sample from it: Act One, Scene One.