I once read that who we are as babies, in essence, sticks with us forever. As a baby, my mother tells me I was curious, imaginative, reflective, and that I loved pureed apricots. My father adds that when I first learned to crawl, I would go a short distance and stop to look around, as if I was scanning the room and learning the layout of the world. Today, I am still that curious and inquisitive baby, scanning the world for inspiration while looking at things with a detailed eye to inform the art that I create. I also still eat pureed apricots.
My practice is multi-disciplinary. I have been trained as an actor, director, writer, and teaching artist. Each of these facets informs the other and strengthens my overall creative practice. I view art, and specifically theatre, as a way for individuals to process emotions and thoughts while in communion with others. We go to the theater to be transported with our fellow humans, to laugh and to cry with them, to better understand them.
I call myself a practitioner because I view the application of these skills as a service. Creatives can see the world from many different angles and are able to translate complex thought into accessible experiences for audiences and viewers. Through our art we also become therapists, teachers, magicians, hypnotists, doulas, tour guides, change-makers… in other words, we are conduits for ascension into other worlds that exist outside of our own.