After I was very willingly roped into doing my high school's production of Annie I felt like things started to fall into place. The rest of my time at that school I absorbed as much as I could before eventually going off to the University of Central Missouri as a BFA Musical Theatre Major in 2019. I was immediately intimidated by my peers who had been doing theatre and taking voice lessons and dance classes since they could remember. I had to study my music theory for hours and lock myself in the practice rooms all night to plunk my songs out note by note. The only classes I took comfort in were my dance classes. My training as a gymnast gave me awareness of how my body moves through space, and though I had never taken a dance class I fit right in. I understood the dance jargon and how classes operated and became fascinated with exploring the limits of the body's mobility. I quickly declared my dance minor and got myself on the executive board of the campus's dance club.

 

The imposter syndrome took a good few years to wear off but when it did I finally felt like I deserved to be there, to be taking the classes and performing alongside my peers. I truly believe that my last two years of college were where I grew the most and where I became an artist. My love grew for character development, choreography and the process of collaboration to make something beautiful. Stories are some of the most precious things we carry with us throughout our lives, I want to be a part of telling and creating those stories that mean so much to so many. I am greatly looking forward to the art that I will get to help construct and experience over my career. I am very eager to be facing the new challenge of life after college and properly enter the industry as an artist craving creativity.