A little about me ...
A South Louisiana transplant, I have worked in the D.C. Metro area as an actor, director, and more recently, producer for nearly 15 years. I am the Founding and Producing Artistic Director of Ally Theatre Company, focused on producing theatre designed to engage audiences through acknowledging and confronting systemic oppression in America. Our three show premiere season launched in April 2017 with the regional premiere of The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by Whiting Award Winner James Ijames. In addition we produced the world premiere of Think Before You Holla by Taylor Reynolds, and developed the world premiere of Clover, co-written by myself and Laura Rocklyn. These three productions combined have played to nearly 1000 audience members. Along with our Managing Director, Tai Alexander, we have programmed a second season, premiering in January 2018 which will see the world premieres of Rabbit Summer by Tracey Conyer Lee and #poolparty by Jennifer Mendenhall, in addition to the regional premiere of Rasheeda Speaking by Joel Drake Johnson.
Prior to Ally, I was the Tour and Company Manager for Remarkably Normal, a new play developed around the issue of women's reproductive rights by DC-based non-profit Advocates for Youth. I accompanied the show on an 8-city National Tour in May and June 2016.
From February 2014-September 2015, I served as the Artistic Director at Pallas Theatre Collective. In that time, I directed and/or produced five productions including a Louisiana bayou-themed Taming of the Shrew, and Washington D.C 1930s era Major Barbara, and the wildly successful world premiere musicals The Fall of the House of Usher and CODE NAME: cynthia. Pallas Theatre Collective was named a John Aniello Award Nominee for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company in 2016.
I am a former Resident Actor and Associate Member at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC), where my roles included Lady Fidget in The Country Wife, Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac, Imogen in Cymbeline, and Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. I have also been proud to assist in directing Pride and Prejudice with Isabelle Anderson and Taming of the Shrew with CSC Founder and Artistic Director Ian Gallanar. In addition to CSC, I've had the privilege of working with artists at Studio Theatre, Venus Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, American Century Theater, Molotov Theatre Group, LiveArt DC, Eleventh Hour Productions, Red Eye Gravy Theatre Company, Grain of Sand, and the Capital Fringe Festival.
Although a lifelong practitioner in the American theatre, my formal studies began at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN under the tutelage of mentor Julia "Cookie" Ewing. I've since had the pleasure of studying at the Globe Theatre in London with Director of Education Patrick Spottiswoode. While there, I was fortunate to receive critique from former Artistic Director and Tony Award Winner Mark Rylance. I've completed the training program at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, studying Greek and Shakespeare under former Artistic Director Joy Zinoman. Prior to moving to D.C., I spent two years in the Education Department at the Hippodrome State Theatre in Gainesville, FL, helping run their spring and summer camps for elementary students as well as team teaching the Hippodrome Improvisational Teen Theatre (H.I.T.T) program.
Outside of theatre, I am an outdoors enthusiast who enjoys hiking and spotting wildlife. I work full-time as an events planner for the Federal Affairs Team at the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Prior to Ally, I was the Tour and Company Manager for Remarkably Normal, a new play developed around the issue of women's reproductive rights by DC-based non-profit Advocates for Youth. I accompanied the show on an 8-city National Tour in May and June 2016.
From February 2014-September 2015, I served as the Artistic Director at Pallas Theatre Collective. In that time, I directed and/or produced five productions including a Louisiana bayou-themed Taming of the Shrew, and Washington D.C 1930s era Major Barbara, and the wildly successful world premiere musicals The Fall of the House of Usher and CODE NAME: cynthia. Pallas Theatre Collective was named a John Aniello Award Nominee for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company in 2016.
I am a former Resident Actor and Associate Member at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC), where my roles included Lady Fidget in The Country Wife, Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac, Imogen in Cymbeline, and Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. I have also been proud to assist in directing Pride and Prejudice with Isabelle Anderson and Taming of the Shrew with CSC Founder and Artistic Director Ian Gallanar. In addition to CSC, I've had the privilege of working with artists at Studio Theatre, Venus Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, American Century Theater, Molotov Theatre Group, LiveArt DC, Eleventh Hour Productions, Red Eye Gravy Theatre Company, Grain of Sand, and the Capital Fringe Festival.
Although a lifelong practitioner in the American theatre, my formal studies began at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN under the tutelage of mentor Julia "Cookie" Ewing. I've since had the pleasure of studying at the Globe Theatre in London with Director of Education Patrick Spottiswoode. While there, I was fortunate to receive critique from former Artistic Director and Tony Award Winner Mark Rylance. I've completed the training program at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, studying Greek and Shakespeare under former Artistic Director Joy Zinoman. Prior to moving to D.C., I spent two years in the Education Department at the Hippodrome State Theatre in Gainesville, FL, helping run their spring and summer camps for elementary students as well as team teaching the Hippodrome Improvisational Teen Theatre (H.I.T.T) program.
Outside of theatre, I am an outdoors enthusiast who enjoys hiking and spotting wildlife. I work full-time as an events planner for the Federal Affairs Team at the Solar Energy Industries Association.