As a child, I was fixated on commercials any time I watched television, listened to the radio, or even just watched the signage pass by. I remember watching commercials upside down, on mute to see if I still liked it without music or sound, and would even draw my own logos for my name, my clubs at school, and even some school subjects. If I felt a tagline in my gut, I would look for it everywhere. Design as messaging was a concept I felt before I knew it formally. All of this boiled down to one thing: it made me feel something. A combination of elements gave me emotion. This early emotional mapping led to a life of visiual art, music, and theatre, and frequent casting in my college productions pulled my creativity into the world of theatre, professionally.

 

After undergrad, I fell into the graduate acting program at the Yale School of Drama where my artistry and understanding of the infrastructure of the arts would become near-fluent.