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I'm actually an award-winning multi-hyphenated actress - director - choreographer - playwright who still has to have a day job. (No, seriously--I really did win the first Rabin Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Musical for Deep Ellum Opera Theatre's Gifts of the Magi and a DFW Critics Forum Award for Outstanding Direction for the musical Ruthless!) I have also used my writing skills for diverse pursuits, writing plays, authoring an article for the online fanzine WHOOSH! and co-authoring the character descriptions on a popular set of Xena trading cards headshot
andi&steve Good friend Steve Lovett and I on the way to the first Rabin ceremony where I would soon be in shock because I won an award. Since then, I've won a number of awards for my acting, directing, and even sound design.
I discovered the theatre as an outlet for expression when I failed to make the drill team in junior high school. Since being on the drill team was the zenith for the junior high social scene, I was absolutely devastated. My mother launched a frantic search for an alternative for me socially (preferably something that would get me out of the house), and remembered that a friend's daughter had become involved in a local theatre group. Thus began a shining career. (By the way, I did make the drill team in high school, thus affording some measure of closure, and played the lead in Annie Get Your Gun, to boot.)
I also write plays with titles like Supermodel Super Spies: Mortal Kompact!, High School Hellcats in Heels, and the Rabin-nominated Bikini Beach Bloodsuckers. In addition, I'm the author of a series of childrens plays which have toured the DFW metroplex and are now being requested by theater groups and educators around the country.

My warped sense of humor comes from my late father, who, against my mother's wishes, would let me stay up late to watch cheesy horror films, then would read me to sleep while "transforming" into a werewolf. My favorite color is purple, and I'm very fond of leopard print. My childhood idols were Julie "Catwoman" Newmar, Ann-Margret, and Diana Rigg (as Emma Peel)--strong female role models who had a profound influence on both my character and fashion sense. I'm still waiting for Prince Charming since I've kissed a lot of frogs in my life!
Slurp, slurp Since I've had such rotten luck with men, my only children are my furkids, who are my pride and joy. I can often be found driving my friends crazy with stories of their antics and cutesy animal photos.