2010 - 2016

Not only has being able to read music helped me countless times in stage management, but it also led me to theatre. I was lucky to have an excellent flute instructor, Becky Neal, who encouraged my Broadway rabbit holes. I collected flute sheet music from Wicked, Phantom, Les Mis, Disney and Harry Potter, which furthered my obsession with Broadway and led me to participate in high school theatre.

2012 - 2016

Like many theatre artists, I landed in the performing arts by acting in High School theatre. When I realized I wanted to continue in the performing arts, I decided to apply for an internship at the newly built performing arts center in my hometown.

2015

The Coralville Center for the Performing Arts is where I fell in love with the backstage, and where I first heard of stage management. From working at the CCPA, I cultivated relationships with local community theaters who graciously taught me the ropes of stage management and helped me get started.

2015 - 2017

I will forever be grateful for the community theaters in Iowa City. I met people who inspired me and taught me to be a stronger stage manager, and planted the seeds for long-term working relationships. I started off as an ASM and quickly moved up as PSM. Looking back, I was an incredibly flawed and power-hungry stage manager, but community theatre provided me a space to fail safely.

2016 - 2020

Working in local theaters proved to me that there was no question I wanted to study stage management in college. With the connections I made with local theaters, I decided it was best to stay in the Iowa City area. Over my 4 years of undergrad, I worked with some of the strongest stage managers I’ve ever met - most notably the current Head of Stage Management at UIOWA, Melissa Turner. With the guidance from Melissa and other Graduate SMs, I was able to set and achieve long-term goals.

2019

I know, I know, no one wants to hear about my sTuDy AbRoAd, but living in London was life changing, and it has always been a big career goal of mine to work internationally. With Dash Arts, I gained the skillset to adapt to my environment and work in new cultures. While abroad, I capitalized on the opportunity to explore the theatrical history I had been learning about in my classes at UIOWA, and traveled to Athens, Paris, and Edinburgh.

2019 - 2020

My final year of undergrad I pushed myself more than ever. I achieved my long-term goal of SMing a mainstage production at the university (a goal I set early on in my freshman year), and worked with new local theaters, all while balancing schoolwork. In hindsight, without the pandemic, I probably would have burnt out, but my senior year of college was an effective segue from the educational to the professional world.

2020 - 2021

Like many in the industry at the time, the pandemic made me reconsider my entire career path. The timing of the pandemic felt very personal, as I was just about to complete my theatre degree and move to a place with more theatrical opportunities. For the next 18 months, I worked at two local thrift stores, Plato’s Closet and Once Upon a Child. That Summer, I statred dating my partner, Toby, and a few months later, I adopted my dog, Rosco.

2021 - 2022

Early in the pandemic, I somehow remained hopeful and kept applying to stage management jobs all over the country. I received rejection letters from every single one of them except Juilliard. At Juilliard, I got to explore other art forms, such as dance and opera, which I had barely touched before. There I met incredible artists, worked on a production scale I never thought I would, strengthened my stage management philosophy, and got my first taste of working in NYC.

2022 - Present

Post-Juilliard, I’ve been freelancing for many companies in the art.s I enjoy freelancing because I get to meet tons of new people, and work on many different projects. My dog and cat are the perfect companions through this hectic career, and my main goal is to give them the best life they can have.