Actor

Writer

Director

COACH

My parents met in the 70s, working at a McDonald’s in Brooklyn, NY. They instilled in me a solid work ethic and let’s face it… a serious love of French fries.

They also sent me to an all girls Catholic high school. It was during these peak years of my teenage angst that I started acting and fell in love with storytelling.

But when I was eighteen I experienced an enormous amount of grief over the sudden loss of my mother.

In an effort to outrun my sadness, I moved to the other side of the world, living and studying in Australia and later England. I traveled around most of Europe, Greece and Egypt, but I learned that no matter how far I went, my loss was still right there with me.

So I headed home to heal. With time, I learned how to love and laugh again.

Grief somehow turned into my artistic superpower, inspiring me to write and direct stories about people who value the chosen family and defy society's unrealistic standards around human connection and processing loss.

In 2022, I earned an MFA in TV writing from Stony Brook University, a program led by Alan Kingsberg and Christine Vachon of Killer Films.

I currently live in Queens with my incredible husband and our seven houseplants: Lily, Dave, Canterbury, Carolina, Canterbury Jr, Aloe and Molly Ringwald, who - you guessed it - is both pretty and pink.