I do that in a lot of mediums including live performance/theatre, television, film, dance, poetry + prose. While I have trained and worked as an actor for nearly 20 years, my primary focus is on writing + directing.
From 2013-2020, I founded and was the artistic producer of PARADIGM productions, a collaborative indie company dedicated to developing and staging formally provocative and interdisciplinary performance works. Our biggest project was The Empire, a modern trilogy.
Through story, I explore the space between who we are, who we have been, and who we are becoming. I work with scale flipping wildly between the intimate and the epic. I’m drawn to the visceral, the taboo, the hilarious, the cosmic, and the sacred. My work is heart + spirit forward.
I believe story, content, and meaning is best expressed through form and want to push beyond the edges of whatever we think form can be. I write to interrupt the unconscious narratives that propel our lives and communities in order to crack open the eternal and ask, “What is happening? What is possible?”
When I'm not telling stories, I'm teaching. I’m honoured to be the Artistic Director at Armstrong Acting Studios where I teach advanced and master level scene study for on-camera performance. I teach empowered and playful approaches to accessing the body, breath, voice, and mind as our main tools of performance.
In 2019, I began my journey as a Dhamma practitioner in the Thai Theravada Buddhist tradition and bring wisdom practice to my artistic processes and experience of humanity. In 2020, I completed my training as an instructor in correct mindfulness through the Mindfulness Society of Canada.
I’m based in Toronto but have worked in Munich, Berlin, London, Dublin, Winnipeg, and Montreal. My work has been translated into Turkish, Spanish, and French.
To know more about my work check out my texts, read some blog posts, or take an acting class with me. When I’m not writing, I am dancing, meditating, hanging out with cats, travelling Asia, becoming a better aunty, reviving my houseplants, turning off my phone, and rock-climbing.
