I’m a writer, performer, and teacher 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, snarky servants, scheming courtiers, and assorted misfits and weirdos, including a one-eyed 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) all over 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.
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.
Alongside all this I worked as a brand communications strategist at Siegel+Gale designing messaging platforms and teaching writing workshops for clients including American Express, HP, Aetna, Motorola and the Wharton School; and as a user experience strategist at both IBM, where I helped AI engineers make chatbots that actually help you, and MetLife, where I led a reorganization of their user portal so people could easily find, understand, and use their insurance.
I earned my credential as a Consent-Forward Artist from Intimacy Directors and Coordinators in December 2023 and am currently working toward full certification in April 2025.
I love talking about any and all of these things! Say hello anytime.