About Me

Photography: Sara Shifflet

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“Are we all met?”

In addition to my work as actor, singer, and improviser, I also coach actors in Shakespearean performance. I’ve been studying and performing Shakespeare since my pre-teens, and I placed a heavy emphasis on Shakespearean performance and analysis while earning my Theatre and English Literature degrees at Ohio Wesleyan University (I even took a class called How To Write Like Shakespeare where I co-authored a five-act play in the style of the Bard himself!) I’ve acted in many-a-Shakespeare-production in Chicagoland, playing everyone from Touchstone in As You Like It to Perdita in The Winter’s Tale.

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Here’s a quick scan of my Shakes-perience (hey, Will invented words, too)--

• B.A. Theatre/English Literature; Minor in Women’s & Gender Studies - Ohio Wesleyan University

  • GPA: 3.89

  • Magna Cum Laude

  • Graduation with University Honors

  • English Literature Major: Junior Independent Study - “Actions That A Man Might Play” - Analyzing Hamlet’s soliloquy, “How all occasions…” through a feminist, gender-conscious lens

  • Theatre Major: Senior Thesis in Performance - “Actions That A (Wo)Man Might Play”

    • Performance of scenes and music from Hamlet and Twelfth Night

      • Twelfth Night (Act 1, Scene 5) - Olivia

      • Hamlet - Hamlet

        • Act 3, Scene 4

        • Soliloquy - Act 4, Scene 4 - “How all occasions…”

• First Folio Technique - Susan Hart

• Exploring Rhythm/Structure of Verse - Shakespeare & Company

• I grew up in a house where Shakespeare was quoted on the regular (ask me about the Easter dinner where the waiter asked my brother, “Is this a dagger which I see before me...?”)

• After tallying up all I’ve read, seen, and performed in, I have most of the canon covered

• Most importantly-- of my three cats, two of them have Shakespeare names (Thisbe and Puck... Freyja may as well be Shakespearean)

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“Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again.”

I have a unique perspective since I am a musical theatre performer as well as a Shakespearean actor. These two genres are more similar than one would think, and nothing would make me happier than helping a musical theatre artist find the Shakespearean actor within. We’ll work together to find the analogues between the MT World and the Bard World to make your Shakespearean text SING!