An award winning filmmaker, comic and solo performer, raised on TV and indie films, I grew up traveling between divorced parents with my four sisters.  I sought human connection in community theater, coffee shops, and wrote stories about everything. 

I lived in the art rooms of my grandmother and on the stages of my mother directing plays. I obsessively watched SNL, played characters inspired by Carol Burnet and Gilda Radner.  I wrote plays, choreographed dance routines, performed in musicals. 

In college I volunteered at film festivals, made experimental dance films inspired by Chantel Ackerman, Pina Bausch, and short films about real people in the style of Jim McKay, Mike White, Lynn Shelton.

In my professional career, I traveled and built film productions, site specific performance groups, storytelling and comedy shows.  

Some of my operating principles in making things includes:

• a well designed production mirrors a pop up chosen family. 

• building fun, safe, creative spaces and production communities makes better work. 


After many years in the Bay Area working in solo performance spaces originated by W. Kamau Bell and Martha Rynberg, I moved to Los Angeles and dove into the Stand Up comedy scene.  I built shows inspired by comedy greats Gary Gulman, Maria Bamford, Melissa Villasenor, creating comedy that’s focused on helping people.

If I’m not on set or in a writers’ room, I’m coaching a friend at LACMA, working on my tight five at open mics, or taking Hip Hop classes with the ol Skool dance crew of WNBA’s SPARKS!