I am an actor, artist, and performance creator. I like to make performances that invite audiences to imagine new ways for us to be together. I’m interested in what happens to a performance if we replace traditional dramatic conflict with collaboration, with an invitation to make something together.
I make most of my performance work with UnSpun Theatre, and you should definitely check that out.
I’m a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, the University of Guelph, and I’ve just completed an MA in Theatre & Performance Studies at York University.
I live in Tkaronto on the territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ and the Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga. I make a lot of performance work with my husband, Chris Hanratty. We are raising two children together, Calla and Geneva, who are very cool and funny people. I use she/her pronouns.
Of Note:
Lost Together is featured in the Winter 2024 issue of Canadian Theatre Review on “Participation”.
I performed a sold out run of The Haunting with Tarragon Theatre in January 2024 as part of their Greenhouse Residency.
I was thrilled to bring Lost Together to OFFTA 2023. Michaela and I made almost 50 art objects over the course of ten days, and met the loveliest people.
You can find my essay “Keeping Good Company” in the Winter 2022 issue of Canadian Theatre Review.
I’m an Associate Artist with Theatre Direct and I’m on the Steering Committee for Balancing Act.
My performance Lost Together won the 2018 SummerWorks Performance Festival Production Award. NOW Magazine called the show “brilliant, and unlike anything I’ve ever experienced at the festival.”
Lost Together was presented at Progress Festival in Toronto, as well as at In the Soil Festival in Niagara, and was part of Nightwood Theatre’s 2020-2021 season.
I was thrilled to visit Vancouver (two weeks after my second child was born!) to participate in the PuSh Festival’s Pitch Session.
I perform in a lot of neat projects, including Re:current Theatre’s production of The Smile Off Your Face, which won the 2017 SummerWorks Festival Production Award.
Our commissioned performance installation, All the Things I’ve Lost, premiered at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto.
The Speedy, which premiered as part of Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage Festival, was the subject of a scholarly article by Dr. Denise Cruz in American Literary History, Summer 2017.