Embrace your Technicolor Life!
We’re All DESERVING of taking up space and telling our stories!
I began to reflect on what moments made me:
The thrill of my first laugh in 3rd grade, which I’m pretty sure I tried to pledge to be a full-blown career—turning our lunch breaks into impromptu SNL shows and making everyone question if I was the next big thing or just really weird!
The pride of earning a college basketball scholarship and being the winner of the NCAA Division II 3-Point National Champion award, and winning the Sara Lee/Hanes Her Way Alaska Athlete of the Year Award. My coaches joked that I was the only player who backed away from the basket before I shot the ball.
The audacity of packing up my Chevy Beretta (and continuing my long history of picking crappy cars) and driving to Los Angeles, where I spent a decade pursuing my dreams appearing on The X-Files, Coach and Suddenly Susan as well as acting in numerous plays and short films. My car might have been worthless, but my dreams were priceless.
I began to reflect on what moments made me:
One day...
…as I stared at the TV in residential treatment, watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I realized I needed to write about this experience. I remembered this film was originally a one-woman show in Los Angeles. That’s it, I thought! My ah-ha moment. Thank you Oprah! As I bonded with the young women in treatment, I hoped to be a comforting presence for them as they were for me. After the suicide of one of these girls I got very close to, my friend Becca, she then became a catalyst for change. I needed to reclaim my passions. Reclaim my true creative “self.”
I knew it was time to dive back into writing, acting and painting. And this time I wasn’t going to leave my dreams behind. There was not going to be an ending to my new story! So from this came one of my new chapters in life. I needed to create my own one-woman show: Searching for Me in All the Wrong Places: One Woman’s Journey to Find Connection, Healing, and Me in Her Mess. Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that life’s messes make the best stories.
I Help You Overcome Self-Judgement
As an artist, coach, and enthusiastic hobby painter, I’m a work-in-progress in mastering the fine art of silencing that pesky inner critic—the one that’s always whispering, “Who does she think she is?” This battle with self-doubt inspired me to name my actor training program Black Sheep Actors Workout, because if there’s one thing black sheep are known for, it’s their fearless, truth-telling ability to say, “I’m different, I’m fabulous and I’m telling my truth!” Embrace your inner Black Sheep!
I’m here to help you rediscover your inner artist, and to discover the “you” in the scripts, sides, or monologues we dissect. I love working with performers of all stripes, with a soft spot for high school students and beginners who need that extra nudge of support that “Yes, you can do this!
My production company, Moonracer Productions, is named after the beloved stop-motion classic “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.” where King Moonracer rules over the Island of Misfit Toys. Just like those misfit toys, you are not broken or out of place. You have a unique “self” here with me, and I’m dedicated to helping you find it.
