Journey to Now

Stand-up

My path is comedic entertainment. I first stepped onto it by performing stand-up in San Francisco. Stand-up provides the word-math of writing jokes, combined with energy of an audience, and that nails the creativity and connection that feel like home. I love finding humor in life’s uncomfortable truths and using that to provoke thought and laugher. I started stand-up later than my peers so my perspective was refreshing to the audience. I moved pretty quickly through the regular shows and onto the main stages (Punchline, Cobbs, and headlining the now closed original Purple Onion). In laughter, one can plant a seed, so I sprinkled the Bay Area with messages of female empowerment before I headed across the country. I know being a stand-up isn’t my forever role but is an foundational first step on my life in comedy. I moved to NYC to experience the other jobs that live under Comedy’s umbrella. Are improv or sketch the forever job? I had to move into the experience.

Improv

Improv is a unique ensemble skill and was a completely different way to use my brain than stand-up. I trained at the People’s Improv Theater (PIT) for all 5 levels and became a House Team member. From scripted solo-performance to spontaneous ensemble story-building, I felt the foundation of my comedy experience opening roads in multiple directions. I stepped away from improv at the start of my Fifth House Season for a rare paid improv experience - an immersive improvised play off-Broadway. Learning a skillset that depends on listening, affirming choices, and remaining present is a life skill that transcends the stage. My lessons from improv training helped connect my playfulness to listening and trust. I began turning a corner.

• a stand-up audience defies you to make them laugh

• an improv audience hopes for your success

I learned I can harness both for empowerment and entertainment.

Solo Shows

I felt the pull to create a one-person show for years before I did it. The idea was planted by former WME scout after he saw my stand-up at Cobb’s. Four years later, I debuted my first solo-show to a sold-out crowd at The PIT’s Solocom Festival in New York City. Solo shows connected the dots between the audience connection of stand-up to the freedom of story, allowing me to use punchlines as a pathway instead of a destination. Thus far, my solo shows are about the unspoken conversations that most of us wish we’d had, or over-heard.(Sexodus and Grey Haired Waitress) My first solo shows is being turned into a book, not by magic but my me… so it may be the first/last book I write. I know I have many more solo shows to share. Is this my forever job? It’s one of them. Life is a journey not a destination, so I’ll just keep moving in the direction of my path: comedy, connection, community.

Monthly Show

My desire to build a platform for positivity and community became Public Victories! Every second Sunday in Park Slope, Brooklyn is a storytelling show of comedians telling their personal tales of triumph, big and small. We take pride in paying our performers and giving a portion of audience donations to a local organization that supports our marginalized communities.

It’s always a good vibes show and is in the process of becoming a good vibes podcast series.

All three of the coproducers rotate hosting, sharing, and running-tech but you can catch me there at every show, since she’s my baby.

Story. Comedy. Triumph.