About Me
I spent my formative years cultivating an interest in storytelling, whether I knew it or not. In fact, I can recall the first character I ever created. I was in second grade and the assignment was to write and illustrate a short story. Mine was about a police officer called "Mr. Tuki-Tuki Chocolate," and the storyline followed his thrilling escapades against his nemesis, "The Bad Banana." Mr. Chocolate's story spanned–if I recall correctly–several picture book publications for my second grade class.
As a senior at Salisbury University with little more than a semester left, I feel that I have only began to scratch the surface of what "authentic" storytelling is. I have been fortunate enough to have been able to explore different roles in my collegiate career, on and off-stage. Most recently, I had the opportunity to direct Act 3 of Arthur Miller's landmark work: The Crucible. I found it an incredibly challenging experience, but also an incredibly rewarding one. Having only experienced it from the acting side of things, putting this one scene together brought forth all the elements of theatre and storytelling which I find most alluring: it requires passion (on the part of the cast and crew), patience (for everybody's sanity), and a burning desire to tell a good story. And for me, every good story has a greater impact that makes it all worthwhile.
