Bio.

After 15 years in a wheelchair, I hit the ground not quite running, but walking fast through a series of adventures, exploring life’s possibilities, sampling like Goldielocks searching for what’s just right.

Formal education: home tutoring twice a week, a state school for crippled children The Cambridge School of Weston, The New England Conservatory, Emerson College, and Lesley University.

Informal education: Pinned to the ladies room door of a coffee house by Bob Dylan professing his love. Wave soaring following hawks above the hills and reservoirs of Western MA Bouncer in an Irish Pub. Tried almost anything I hadn’t done before.

Poked, prodded, examined and experimented upon, metaphorically, in some cases literally, I poked, prodded, examined and experimented back
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Histology, cutting and staining human eyes for clinical and teaching purposes,

Immunoflorescense assays to determine steroid dosages to suppress the immune systems of patients with an autoimmune skin disease

Drug and alcohol studies at the Harvard School of Public Health. Contemplated getting an MPH. but . . .
moved on
Research interviewer for a management consulting company and a nonprofit research institute.
moved on . . .into the world of children and parents with special needs.

Speech Therapist and Head Teacher of a classroom for language impaired 4-8 year olds.
Burned out in the public school systems, so
moved on . . .
Currently make myself available as a life coach for parents of special needs kids and as an accent coach for actors and others.

While in high school, I knew I wanted to act but was still in a wheelchair and not allowed on stage. I sang in the chorus and painted sets knowing that I could do it. Years later I attended a weekly meeting of Playwright’s Platform and started formal acting training. I continue to study.

The essences of the many wonderful people, children and adults,I’ve met and with whom I've worked live in me. Their highs, lows, frustrations and exuberances of transcendence. Their choices, my choices. A wealth of experiences A treasury of remembrances to inform as I poke, prod, and experiment as an actress.