I was born in Lafayette Indiana and later studied interdisciplinary sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Soon followed a summer sojourn at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and an exhibitions internship at Art In General in Manhattan. After acquiring skills in puppetry, performance and circus arts through communities in Baltimore and Philadelphia, I toured with a group of talented, itinerate performers, ultimately landing in New Orleans. Here, in the company of many, I have crafted a life befitting a future ghost. I spent a near decade working/haunting an historic apothecary, I’ve designed ephemeral properties for the theatrical stage, and I’ve instigated and engaged in performances both wondrous and strange. Some companies with whom I’ve had pleasurable association include: Black Forest Fancies, Mudlark Public Theater, New Noise, Skin Horse, Allways Cabaret, Nari Tomasetti Presents, Le Petit, Southern Rep, NOLA Project, Vagabond Inventions, Radical Buffoons, Last Call, LOUD, Screaming Traps, Beaubourg & Goat in the Road.

In the spring of 2021 I completed the Going with Grace end-of-life doula training. From 2020-2022 I worked as a direct support specialist for people living with HIV in supportive housing through Project Lazarus. Presently I am a therapeutic clown with Prescription Joy, an HIV prevention coordinator with Crescent Care and a research associate with the CDC’s National HIV Behavioral Surveillance study (NHBS).