Artist Statement
The objective of my work has always been to honor the lives and narratives of people and things I love through storytelling in various mediums. It is also how I explore my own innermost thoughts and feelings. Writing acts as an exercise in empathy, authenticity, and vulnerability as it helps me to see things from the perspectives of others. Crafting stories in various mediums of narrative helps me gain a perspective that I am able to coordinate with other narratives to create a world that is very much unique and all its own. It is simply the result of having a life and people in it that you just can't make up. I decide what stories to tell and when based on the sense of urgency I feel surrounding events in my personal life. I usually start with the premise and let the various themes and mediums speak to me from there. What I feel is most exciting about this work is that I can find comfort in being more genuine, authentic, and even vulnerable in writing these characters and formulating plots. The thing I find a bit more challenging in this work is achieving the balance of using my own narrative and still allowing the story to feel universal.
My Story
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I developed a passion for stories at a young age. I became incredibly drawn to them and absorbed different stories in different mediums. I found them in books, poems, songs, and even theatre. I discovered my love for theatre at the age of four and shortly after at the age of eight, I began to write plays and skits of my own. I would even write Easter plays for my local church. Along with that and learning to sing in local choirs, I had found a home in the creative arts. I began taking piano lessons at the age of fifteen and continued to do so for two years. I then graduated high school and went on to college at Seton Hill University, where I graduated with degrees in Theatre Arts and Creative Writing