I have said before that I really don’t enjoy writing a bio, and that could be for several reasons. I have had the honor and privilege to spend most of my life acting. Whether it was in the Tulsa Opera in my first big principle role in The Cunning Little Vixen as a child, on the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a teenager, or in films and television as an adult, I genuinely feel really lucky. Because what I get to do is fun. And I have done some incredible projects. I’ve gotten to work on American Horror Story, 2 Broke Girl$, Bones, Famous; on stage in Rumors, The Breakfast Club, Hay Fever, Elevator; and most recently starred as Amber Heard in the Fox streaming service Tubi’s original film Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial. 

But that’s the thing. I like being other people. And I have spent most of my life trying to clean up my own emotional turmoil so I can be other people on stage and screen, and so that I can write. 

I recently filmed the first movie that I wrote and I am releasing my debut poetry book in May through Manhattan Book Publishing. And it may be the most nervous I have ever been. Because it’s really me being vulnerable as myself.

One of the most pivotal moments in my life occurred when I had the honor of being in the show The Laramie Project, and it was the first time I really witnessed firsthand the way in which art could make a true difference in people’s lives. I knew how I felt about it, but I just figured that I was a geek. During that show, I decided that, though I would always want to do art that I loved, (which is pretty easy for me because I really love most art) I really wanted to pursue being a part of projects that would make a difference in the world, that could speak for those who maybe were having trouble speaking for themselves, that could speak to those who feel lonely, or damaged, or hopeless – because I have felt all of those things too. Sometimes so deeply that I thought that the feelings would never end. And the only thing that got me through those times was art. So if I can do that for someone else, that’s what matters to me. And you can’t really quantify that in a bio.”