About Me

I've been finding my way onto a stage since elementary school. What began as a love of performing has become a lifelong curiosity about the ways we use our voices, bodies, and imaginations to tell stories, challenge perspectives, and connect with one another.

As a performer, I love submitting to the work. I want to discover what a story demands of me, to stretch the possibilities of my voice and body, and to step into a perspective that may be far from my own. I'm drawn to the moments when preparation meets instinct, when something unexpected happens, and the work becomes more truthful because of it.

Much of my artistic foundation was built in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I worked as a voice teacher and theatre program director. I was surrounded by artists who challenged me to recognize both what I could offer and what I had yet to learn. At one point, I began trading voice lessons with dancers in my program for dance lessons of my own. That exchange captures something I still love about theatre: we enter the room with different tools, and the work becomes richer when we're willing to share them.

Today, I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre and Industry Voice at Oklahoma State University. I hold an MFA in Musical Theater Vocal Pedagogy from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a BA in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University. My training across acting, movement, and voice continues to shape how I approach each room I enter.

As a director and educator, I'm interested in what happens when forms of expression overlap, familiar ideas are questioned, and artists are invited to confront something they hadn't considered before. I want to build rooms where curiosity is welcomed, difficult questions can be asked, and care and accountability exist together. Whether I'm guiding a production or working with an individual singer, I hope to help artists discover the range of what their voices can do and what they have to say.

Away from the rehearsal room, I share my life with my incredible husband, Tre Tyler, whom I met performing in Urinetown during undergrad, and our two sweet pups, Astaire and Poppy. Theatre has shaped not only my work, but the people I get to share my life with. That may be its greatest gift.