I grew up in Austin, Texas, raised by a special-ed teacher and an Artistic Director. My life was in the theatre long before I ever came to the realization that I wanted it to be; I was there for every opening night performance that I could be, and I spent my summers running through the halls playing hide-and-seek. But before I was an actor, I was a dancer; I even attended a daytime ballet program in high school. Even as a dancer, the thing that drove me the most was the ability to tell stories beyond words, using just the physical. I finally realized how much I wanted to dive in to the world of acting that had surrounded me my whole life, so I went and earned my BFA in Acting from the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and it may just be the best decision I've ever made :)