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resume

Height: 5' 2 1/2"

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Salt & Pepper

Location: Columbus, OH

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Stage

New Herring Theater | Love Letters | 2024

Melissa

Abbey Theater of Dublin | Drums of War | 2024

Eleanor Roosevelt

Abbey Theater of Dublin | The Witch Play, Women Who Know | 2023

Beth

Eclipse Theater | Admissions | 2023

Roberta

Evolution Theatre Co. | The Inheritance | 2023

Margaret

Nationwide Children’s Hospital Butterfly Guild | The Sound of Music | 2023

Frau Schmidt

Abbey Theater of Dublin | Catspaw | 2022

Alice

Original Productions Theatre| Motherlode | 2022

Judy

Abbey Theater of Dublin | The Duchess | 2022

Florence 'The Duchess' Harding

Short North Stage | Sister Act | 2021

Sister Mary Martin

Ember Women's Theater| Life Alert | 2021

Rose

Red Herring Theater Company | The Children | 2021

Hazel

Shhh Productions | A Christmas Carol | 2020

Scrooge

The Abbey Theatre of Dublin | Go To Coda | 2020

Mrs. Post

Shhh Productions | Death Rings Down The Curtain | 2020

Martha

Red Herring Productions | Unholy Halloween | 2020

Shhh Productions | To Find Help | 2020

Mrs. Gillis

Red Herring Productions | The Motherlogues | 2020

Actors Theatre of Columbus | Little Women | 2019

Aunt March and Hannah

Red Herring Productions | Waiting To Be Invited  | 2019

Mrs. Grayson

Available Light Theatre | White Rabbit  | 2018

CATCO/Evolution Theatre Co. | Breaking The Code | 2018

Sara Turing

Warehouse Theatre | True West | 2018

Mom

Short North Stage | Angels in America | 2017

Hannah, et al

Red Herring Productions | Chapatti | 2018

Betty

Red Herring Productions | The Road To Mecca | 2017

Miss Helen

Short North Stage | Die, Mommy, Die | 2016

Bootsie

Gallery Players | Becoming Dr. Ruth | 2016

Dr. Ruth

Evolution Theatre Co. | Sticks & Stones | 2016

Janice Sanders

CATCO | Sticks and Stones - staged reading | 2015

Janice Sanders

Short North Stage | The Divine Sister | 2014

Mrs. Levinson, Timothy

Available Light Theatre | Daedalus | 2015

Multiple roles

A&B Productions and SRO | The Lost Traveler | 2015

Multiple parts

CATCO | Steel Magnolias | 2014

Clairee

Shadowbox | Back to the Garden | 2013

Witness

SRO | Death of a Salesman | 2013

Linda Loman

Curtain Players | Scotland Road  | 2013

Frances Kittle

A&B Productions | The Promised Land | 2013

Character

SRO | To Kill A Mockingbird | 2012

Jean Louise

Short North Stage | Cabaret | 2012

Fraulein Schneider

Theatre Columbus State | The Good Doctor | 2012

Woman

CATCO - Phoenix | House of Pooh Corner | 2012

Tigger

Available Light Theatre | 33 Variations | 2012

Dr. Brandt

Columbus Civic Theatre | The Gin Game | 2011

Fonsia

PNCArt Stage Reading | The Blue Moon Dancing | 2011

Roselle

Gallery Players | The Case Against Sol Schumann | 2011

Mrs. S., Rivka, Nurse

Actors Theatre of Columbus | Oedipus Rex | 2011

Jocasta

PNCArt on Stage Reading | Death of a Salesman | 2011

Linda Loman

Columbus Symphony - CATCO | Cinderella  | 2011

Stepmother

Gallery Players | From Door to Door | 2010

Mary

Actors Theatre of Columbus | Dark of the Moon | 2010

Conjour Woman

Film & Television

Chinese Bookie Productions | The Archivist | 2015

Virginia Lombard

ABC Documentary | The Final Witness | 2012

Bobby's Grandmother

Liberal Arts Film by Josh Radnor | 2011

Lunch Lady

Various industrials, PSA's, & print work

Awards

COLUMBUS THEATRE ROUNDTABLE

2013 Lead Actor in a Play

Death of a Salesman

SRO

COLUMBUS THEATRE ROUNDTABLE

2016 Excellence in Acting

Sticks & Stones

Evolution Theatre Company

JEBBY AWARD

Local Performer of the Year

Lead Female in a Play

33 Variations

Available Light Theatre

JEBBY AWARD

Local Performer of the Year

Lead Female in a Play

Becoming Dr. Ruth

Gallery Players

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