As a multi-racial and multi-ethnic woman, I have emigrated twice. The experience of not being moored in any one community for long, as a child, gives me a perspective that informs my work, along with my theater training. My ability with characters, accents and dialects are great for the densely populated works of mysteries and romances. I love wry witty dark comedies and fantasy fiction based in myth and legend. I also have an affinity for Literary Romanticism, like Thomas Hardy and Emily Bronte so historical fiction is a place I find very cozy! Stories of the Caribbean Diaspora are of particular interest to me at ... more the moment. I am dubiously adept in wrangling a teenage boy and his waterpolo team. I sew, I bake, I garden, and drink too many cups of tea, which often are left strewn around the house! I love cats and greyhounds, and chocolate. Odd Facts include: I worked on an Academy award winning documentary film - logging and transcribing the stories of Kinder-transport survivors during World War 2. I am fascinated with the history of Jewish settlers in the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora in general. I have been a post production supervisor. I teach dialects and coach acting for teens. I used to study ballet once upon a time, that transitioned to stage combat in college, where wielding a broadsword or rapier and dagger was my preferred state. I performed in various combat shows, classical theatre, experimental theatre and regional theatre. Strange but true: Ten years ago I learned to swim, and now enjoy swimming very slowly and badly (in a pool)- My son says I really just float. Why did I send him to Improv classes? At the end of the last century, I attended Columbia College, Chicago, where I majored in Theatre, mentored by Sheldon Patinkin and Norm Holly. I graduated with a BA and completed the Conservatory program at The Second City in Chicago and was a certified stage combatant trained by David Wooley. Soon after, the British American Drama Academy, there I studied with great teachers such as Claire Davidson, Henry Goodman, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Paola Dionsotti, to name but a few. I specialized in character, movement and dialects. I have since worked in such venues as The Berkeley Rep and The Magic Theatre, Pasadena Shakespeare Company, The Company Rep, and Lamplighters Theatre. Ta-da! Now I enjoy many hours in a small padded room with a microphone! less