I am an actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, and director who has been performing, traveling, and teaching since my graduation from the prestigious Theater School at DePaul University. I was one of the first recipients of the Charles McGaw Acting Award for excellence in performance. I have a great passion for Shakespeare and the classics and have traveled throughout Europe, Asia and India to study traditional cultural forms of theater and dance. I have worked and trained with Tony Award winner Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso,  Shakespeare and Co. in MA, The Globe Theater in London, and many others in my endeavors to pursue performance excellence and facilitate cross-cultural collaborations. I have been performing and teaching many different styles of dance such as Middle Eastern Bellydance, Latin, and Hawaiian Hula for over 15 years.

I have worked on many diverse projects such as the “MC” for the Miss Tibet Pageant in Dharamsala, India, to Executive Director of the 75 year old Historic Palace Theater in Hilo, Hawaii. I am also a humanitarian at heart and in 1996 founded “Compassion in the Himalayas” a volunteer organization dedicated to assisting Tibetan refugees suffering from human rights abuses with medical, nutritional and financial support.

I currently live in Chicago, Illinois, and founded “Wink Productions” in 2005 to provide professional entertainment to serve a wide range of audience ages and creative needs.

I am currently performing and singing live as “Marilyn” at corporate events, private parties, and special events, and am developing a one-woman Tribute to Marilyn Show which I plan to tour world-wide.

I began to study the phenomenon of “Marilyn Monroe” as my entertainment company constantly received requests for “Marilyn” to appear at their events. As I study “Marilyn”, I am amazed at the complexity and iconic stature of her all too short life. During her short time on earth she seems to have burst forth with such a light, rawness, and masterfully constructed image, that she is indelibly imprinted on our cultural psyches, mirroring back to us our incredible vulnerability, fears, passions and sexuality. Marilyn pushed the envelope, and continues to haunt us by her softness, childlike vulnerability, and sensuous promise of fulfillment.  A very tough act to follow, but what greater challenge for an actor?

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