About

WHERE I’VE LIVED

• Chicago — born and raised
• Providence — Brown University
• New York City — finally found a place to store all my shoes

WHAT I SOUND LIKE

• Resonant
• Sultry
• Crisp & Clear
• Dirty — not in a bad way, mind you. Unless you’re looking for dirty 🙂  I mean a slight raspiness…a crackle.

WHO I’VE PLAYED

• Cassie Logan, a spirited girl from Depression-era Mississippi. I had the pleasure of voicing this character as she grew up, in Mildred Taylor’s award-winning books about the Logan family.
• Vivian Wong, a champion duelist and martial arts expert in the popular anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Luther, who had to sing even though half his face was blown off midway through John Varley’s Gaean audiobook sci-fi trilogy.
• Doctors, moms, announcers and other voices of authority in a whole slew of commercials, promos and industrials.

OTHER STUFF I DO

• Sing – low alto, approaching tenor. Yeah, I probably sing lower than your brother does.
• ADR. That’s Automated Dialog Replacement, for those who want to get technical. Also known as “Looping”.
• Play the piano. Sort of. All those years of lessons didn’t turn me into Mozart, but they did teach me to sight read, stumble through a song, and transpose my own charts.

WHAT’S ON MY SHELVES

• My Emmy Award — okay, I was a 12-year-old news anchor, but it still counts.
• A multitude of dictionaries, thesauri, and other assorted reference materials, including a book that really should have its own shelf — “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”, by Lynne Truss.
• Shoes — stacked in their original boxes, in a small closet I converted just for this purpose. Nirvana.

WHAT I’VE WORN

• The funky, appliquéd skirt they let me keep from that Road Runner TV commercial — I played a florist.
• Cocktail dresses, patterned hose, sparkly jewelry, and colorful vintage gloves, when I’m onstage singing.
• Have I mentioned the shoes??