a little about me…
A Proper Shakespeare Nerd
The Backroom Shakespeare Project is a rowdy theater that operates under four core tenants: Serious Actors, No Director, One Rehearsal, and At a Bar. These core principals serve the goal of creating an environment most similar to how Shakespeare’s plays were performed in the 17th century. This is my most favorite shit ever.
Here’s me as Autolycus from their recent production of The Winter’s Tale.
photo by Jeff Kurysz
Education
I graduated in 2021 with a BFA in Acting at Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College.
This photo is from a solo piece I made at OU titled, “twink!” Devising is one of my strengths, although I’m not sure I could get away with calling myself a twink anymore…
Krapp’s Last Tape Under Quarantine
For my thesis project at OU, I wanted to bring back some live, in-person theater. So, I put on one of Beckett’s classics! Krapp is perfect for the pandemic; it deals with isolation, loneliness, and nostalgia. It felt like the perfect play to commiserate with all my peers and collaborators who I had lost time with when the university went online, while also bringing us back together.
I modernized Krapp’s environment (to an extent), adapted the text to fit for a young actor, and produced the play as a class project.
Performance in a Pandemic
COVID-19 drastically interrupted my education. Being an acting student in a pandemic was difficult, but not impossible! OU put on an ambitious online production of Angels in America, where I played Prior Walter, one of my dream roles.
It was fun, but the itch to play Prior in a live production remains unscratched.
More Shakespeare!
Before actually working with the Back Room Shakespeare Project, I was a proper fangirl of theirs. So, in 2019, I started a mini theater company called Athens on Tap, modeled after them.
Here’s me as Gertrude in our first production, Hamlet.