I have spent four decades working in the theatre. While much of what I have done has been in New York City, the work has also taken me all around the world. I am passionate about traveling and I am never happier than when I am learning how to live and work in a new city.

I come by this passion naturally. My family has its roots in many different places. My mother was born in India into a family that had been part of the British Raj for several generations. They relocated to South Africa, when she was still very young, just before Britain granted India its independence. She grew up there while it was still under the yoke of Apartheid. My father was born in rural Virginia into a family that had been in the United States since the 1600s. My father’s mother grew up in the US-occupied Philippines after World War 1. His father was a Virginia lawyer, as was his grandfather. My parents met and married in London. I was born outside of Washington D.C. after they moved to the United States. We spent part of my childhood in South Africa living with my grandfather and the rest of it in suburban Northern New Jersey.

One day, when I was still in Middle School, I was walking to the bus to go home, and our Drama teacher was standing outside looking for one last volunteer to work backstage on the school musical. Without any thought at all, I said, “I’ll do it.” That moment has charted the course of my entire life so far.

I became obsessed with theatre and started taking the bus into the city to see shows. I knew early on that I wanted to live in New York City someday so when the time came to choose a college, I applied and got into Columbia University on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. While there, I got the idea to volunteer at a professional theatre downtown and sent out several letters. Wynn Handman, the Artistic Director of the American Place Theatre was the only one who responded. He needed a production assistant for a new show by a mime named Bill Irwin called The Regard of Flight. I started on the show working for free but by the summer, with the show a hit, they began to pay me. That job turned me into a stage manager and ultimately brought me to where I am now.

When the pandemic began in 2020, like so many others, I began to look objectively at my life and think about what I wanted to accomplish. My whole working career had been in service telling other people’s stories. It seemed to me that the time had come for me to start telling my own. This website, in addition to being a road map of where I have been, is also a path into the future to where I want to go. 

In the words of Mary Chapin Carpenter, “We’ve got two lives -- one we’re given and the other one we make.”  This is me making mine.