Hatboro-Horsham Theatre Department

Q. When did you graduate HH?

A. “I graduated in 2012”

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Q. What are you doing currently?

A. “I am living in New York working as a professional actor/dancer and I also teach at the high school in my spare time. I teach dance in the city and then I do demo work which is you do promotional things for different companies at different events and those are more my side jobs”

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Q. What was your favorite high school show and what role did you play?

A. “I liked all the shows we did. Probably little shop was my favorite because I got to play Audrey and that was the first role that I did where I knew I wanted to do musical theater. So I was like in it, ready to go. It wasn’t just fun it was like I am going to do this very well”

 

Q. Where did you go to college?

A. “I went to the Boston Conservatory at the Berkeley College of Music.”

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Q. What has been your favorite memory during a show in or out of high school?

A. “Probably... I worked at the Muny in St. Louis, which is a ten thousand seat amphitheater, and I was doing Mamma Mia. And at the end there’s this big mega-mix and at the end of the first number we all ran to the front of the stage and just posed and everyone in the audience stood up, like ten thousand people and they all cheered. And i’m just standing there holding this pose in like a glitter dress crying. It was the most amazing thing ever. Everyone was freaking out onstage and in the audience. It was really really cool.

 

Q. What inspired you to do your profession?

A. “I’ve always performed, like my whole life I’ve never really done anything else. It was always a passion of mine but it wasn’t until a girl a year older than me, her name is Meg Addams, she introduced me to a voice teacher in the area and she was the first person who told me I could do this professionally. She was like, ‘you actually have the ability to take this and make a career out of it’ and so it was her and other mentors in my life who guided me to this because it was always a part of me but I never knew that I could make it my whole life. So I guess it was my mentors and my family and everyone”

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Q. What has been your biggest accomplishment so far?

A. “Probably… I got to do two regional premiers and I got to be principals in both of those premieres. So the show left Broadway and then the first production at a regional house, I got to debut two principal roles in Matilda and Cinderella so that is probably my biggest accomplishment so far.

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Q. Biggest regret?

A. “Telling myself I couldn’t do it. Very quickly in college I put myself in a box and in high school too, where I was like, ‘I’m not like an aunjanue, I’m not the pretty girl, I’m the funny girl and I’m the stupid one’ and I’m still learning I can be more than that character and people see me as different things. Yeah don’t put yourself in a box because you can do anything you want to do it’s just you believing in yourself to do it”

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Q. What advice would you give someone heading down the same career path as yourself

A. “Just go for it. No fear, no doubt. You have to believe in your abilities and by not putting yourself in a box as well just say, ‘I am an amazing performer. I have the skills and ability and the passion to also learn within the business’ and just running for it. You can’t have any fear going into this business because it’s hard and it’ll eat you alive if you don’t have the passion like two hundred percent. If you want to do something else, if there’s anything in your mind and you’re like, ‘I could maybe be a doctor’ be a doctor. You know what I mean. You have to want this two hundred percent, for sure.”