Seminar Grove Manager/Education Assistant; u/s Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest and Macbeth’s Servant/Soldiers/English Soldiers/Youth Apparition/Minions
Previously at the Festival: Seminar Grove Manager/Educational Assistant (2023, 2024); u/s Ursula/Attendant/Hugh Oatcake/Candle Bearers/Soldier/George Seacoal in Much Ado About Nothing; u/s Lords/Lady/Mariner/Dion/Shepherds/Shepherdess/Bear in The Winter’s Tale; Moth in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2011); Macduff Child in Macbeth (2010)
Other Theatres: Cleomenes in The Winter’s Tale (The Shakespeare Project of Chicago); Jean in August: Osage County (Wheaton Drama); Viola in Twelfth Night (dir. Lisa Wolpe, Prague Shakespeare Company); Belle in A Christmas Carol (Hale Theatre Orem); Doña Leonor in The House of Desires, Lydia in Pride and Prejudice, and The Governess in *The Turn of the Screw (*BYU)
Television: Joanna in Knights of the Cross (pilot; Cinema Forte)
Other Credits: Assistant Director/Dialect Coach for Wait Until Dark (BYU); V/O artist for the Apple Seed Podcast with BYU Radio
Education: BFA in Acting from Brigham Young University
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