I've been fortunate in this life to be able to reinvent (and continually educate) myself in order to follow several diverse paths.  I've been in the professional worlds of classical ballet, opera, and  musical theatre, assisted in the C-suite in the New York headquarters of a global company for six years before transitioning into a cyber security consultant performing a myriad of highly technical services.  While with the firm, I completed yoga teacher training and taught classes to my corporate colleagues in the boardroom after work. I also had the pleasure of co-founding Kroll's 'Women in Cyber' group. 

    While in New York I became a Certified TESOL educator. (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages or "ESL"). In 2024 I completed a similar course in London, U.K. in order to gain the European equivalent certification known as the CELTA. 

    I was two years old when I begged to take dance classes. Fast forward to my last two years of high school in which I was dancing 20+ hours a week in the pre-professional company of the Atlanta Ballet. I danced in the company’s Nutcracker ballet at the Fox Theatre for seven years.

   One reason I chose Butler University (Indianapolis, IN) for my undergrad was their renowned Ballet Major.  I was accepted into the program, but offered a scholarship from the Voice Performance department, so I took class with the dance majors whenever it fit into my schedule while pursuing a degree in Vocal Performance. 

   I began studying classical singing concurrently with ballet when I was fourteen. In my final year of high school, an independent study arrangement allowed me to leave school early to study voice, piano, and theory with my teacher Mary Francis Katz and attend weekly master classes with Elizabeth Colson who became my teacher after college. 

   While majoring in Voice, I sang in the opera chorus in many productions with the Indianapolis Opera.  After college I sang with the Atlanta-based Capitol City Opera Company and studied at the American Institute for Musical Studies (A.I.M.S.) in Graz, Austria with Elizabeth Colson and Everett McCorvey.

   In New York I worked with several teachers and coaches on transitioning my singing to a more musical theatre style.  Teachers included Jeannie Lovetri, Matt Farnsworth, Tom Burke, Shirley Callaway and Sheri Sanders. 

   I studied acting with Matthew Corozine and took scene study classes with Austin Pendleton  (HB Studios)  and with Caymichael Patten.

   One of the highlights of my time in New York was performing in readings of many new musicals. I particularly enjoyed readings where I had scene work and songs as many different characters in a single show. I was a “regular” for NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program working on multiple thesis readings each spring for their masters students. I originated lead roles in fully staged new musicals at both the NYMF and Fringe Festivals. 

   With cabaret director Erv Raible I created a solo act, entitled “My Shirley Years” which had two runs in New York as well as a 30 show run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.  The show was a love letter to my childhood idol, Shirley Temple, and I wove in other repertoire of the 1930’s,  and songs sung by leading ladies in Shirley Temple films, such as Alice Faye. 

    It was with the songs of Alice Faye that I debuted at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on the bill of a Mabel Mercer Foundation Concert. 

    At Lincoln Center's Avery Fischer Hall I performed a medley of Cinderella pieces with  the Little Orchestra Society  conducted by Dino Anagnost for their Cinderella Young People's Concert.

   For eight years I was a frequent performer for the Ziegfeld Society of New York  whose members are generally over age 70. (Florenz Ziegfeld's heyday and famed  "Ziegfeld Follies" were in the 1900s through 1930s.  I regularly performed music from this era with director and composer, Mark York, as well as American Songbook Standards (Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Kern and others).  Mark spent his early career working for composer Cy Colman (Sweet Charity, Barnum) as his protégé and is now the leading authority on Cy's music and estate.  

   Mark composed and produced an elaborately-costumed staged musical on the life of Marilyn Miller (famed Broadway star of the 1920s-30s) in which I played the title role.  (Marilyn Monroe named herself after this stage star.)

    We teamed again on a biographical musical of the life of American composer Kay Swift who was a famed collaborator and romantic partner of George Gershwin. The musical featured the music of both composers and was mounted by the Kay Swift Estate. 

    From 2017-2019, I performed British operettas by "G&S"  in New York and on tour through the U.S. with NYGASP. I was often a featured dancer (while singing!) in these highly choreographed operettas. It was a joy to be part of this top notch company, a true family, of repertory performers, (Shows are listed in the resume.) 

    From 2014-2023 I worked with Kroll, an investigations consultancy founded in 1972 made up of wonderful people who had moved to the private sector after careers with  "the three letter agencies" (CIA, FBI, Secret Service.)  I began as the C-suite executive assistant, and after six years in that role developed into a Senior Cyber Security Consultant  passing the CISSP exam (similar to something like the bar exam for lawyers).  

    I became a Kroll consultant myself and personally provided managed services for a large roster of clients including phishing exercises, trainings, vulnerability scans, third-party risk assessments and completed numerous M365 Cloud assessments of client environments.  With Kroll colleagues I worked on large annual risk assessments, assisted in penetration testing, and worked on CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) audits and monitorships.

   In August of 2019 I moved to San Francisco and had the pleasure of performing in the "Pantos" (*See footnote) for three holiday seasons at the Presidio Theatre.  I made debuts at Bay Area theaters including Peninsula Lively Arts, The Magic Theatre, The Mountain Play, Contra Costa Civic Theatre and Ross Valley Players.  

     During the pandemic I wrote and filmed a cabaret act which is viewable on this site.

* "Panto" is short for "pantomime". It's an imported British holiday tradition of an all-singing-and-dancing  wacky retelling of a fairy tale using pop music for the score with rewritten lyrics.