The teaser trailer:
I’m an independent film actress and amateur theater actress based in Seattle, WA. Trust me, you should care. I have chickens.

The extended, unrated director’s cut:
I was born on a sunny, Sunday afternoon on the island of Oahu on Pearl Harbor Day in 1980 to a large Mormon family of meager means. For better or worse, my family moved away from the islands when I was just an adorable blue eyed curly toe-headed toddler to the tiny town of Nine Mile Falls, WA. There I had an idyllic rural childhood with my 5 other siblings (1 older brother, 3 older sisters, and one younger brother). I learned how to swim in the nearby lake, I rode my bike through the bridal trails behind the rows of houses on large land plots, I raked leaves and pine needles in the fall, learned to garden with my mother, jumped on the trampoline with my friends and siblings, got into trouble, broke bones, rode neighbors’ horses, did chores, became a Brownie, babysat, and just generally rambled about.

My parents divorced when I was 12 years old and with most of my siblings grown up and out of the house, she moved my little brother and I to Pullman, WA where she enrolled at WSU. It’s hard to say if it was the move away from everything I’d ever known or if it was the divorce, but I plunged into a depression that would last the remainder of my teen years. Despite the depression, I met and fell in with a group of friends that over the next few years would help me define myself. I had become shy and withdrawn and those friends gave me the courage to express who I really was inside.

My mother remarried and graduated from WSU with a teaching degree, my life was upset again when we moved to Kennewick, WA between my Sophomore and Junior years. That summer I traveled to the East coast of Australia with the People-to-People Student Ambassadors program. It expanded my mind times a thousand and made me aware that there was a very large world out there beyond me and my little problems. With the knowledge that I would be leaving the culture-void desert town in the Tri Cities just two years after landing there, I did what I had to do to get by. I had been on the excellent swim team in Pullman and joined the Southridge High School swim team as a way to meet people at my new school and pass the time. My senior year couldn’t come to an end quick enough for me, and because I didn’t really know what else to do and because I’d always been a pretty good artist I enrolled at The Art Institute of Seattle in the Multimedia and Web Design program.

Having lived in only small to moderately sized towns, Seattle was a thrilling metropolis to me. I lived right down town and could be spotted regularly walking through the famous Pike Place Market soaking in all of the vibrant and buzzing energy of the place. Away from my family, I was able to realize and accept that I am a lesbian–that only occurred after I searched my mind and soul and quit the church I had been raised in due to some inconsistencies I found too troubling to ignore. School was interesting and educational, but I was far more interested in the people I was meeting and all of the new experiences that were now available to me as a city girl. I fell in love with live music and saw as much of it as I could on my student’s budget. I studied with a brilliant Seattle painter, Bill Cumming, and also took some photography classes that really engaged me. The Art Institute of Seattle was a great place for me to have gone–the people I met there are still some of the best friends I have in the world–oh, and I also learned some marketable skills. I graduated in the fall of 2001 with an Associates of Applied Arts Degree.

And then… on November 10, 2001 I was in the back seat of a car that slid on black ice and was hit broadside by a semi-truck on the highway. In one instant my life would never be the same. Upon impact I broke my sternum, punctured my lung and my liver, broke three vertebrae, shattered my pelvis, broke my femur, and crushed my feet an ankles. I nearly lost my life several times that night and was whisked away to the nearest hospital and then flown to Harborview to their stellar trauma unit. After a month in the hospital and two months in a nursing home, 15 surgeries, physical and psychological therapies, and many years I was ready to try and start a new life.

I took any jobs I could when I was finally able to work again. I did this in order to get anything on my resume. Finally I started getting work in the field I had been trained in. I built web sites, I made graphics, and cranked out banner ads one after the other. Yuck. I had several jobs in my chosen field and managed to screw myself out of each one. I was miserable. I hated what I was doing and I hated who I was doing it for. I was good at what I was doing, but I was not a good person while I was doing it. After losing my most lucrative job in 2008, I took stock of my life. How could I survive something so severe and then just get by on jobs that would pay enough for me to keep getting by? This wasn’t the life I wanted.

I had a secret. After a brush with Hollywood at age 11–when my sisters and I were featured extras in a big budget movie–I knew what I wanted, but because I was so shy and unsure of myself I hardly let on that I had a deep-seeded desire to be an actress. After searching my soul while trying to figure out my next move I knew what I had to do. I admitted to myself and proclaimed to those around me: I am now an actress.

Not knowing where to start, I turned to craigslist. After some hits and misses I began to learn the lay of the land, where to look for credible acting jobs, who was making things happen, and what to look out for. I started getting jobs, and you know what? I was pretty good! I’ve been working on features, shorts, music videos, industrials, commercials, web spots, and plays ever since. I’ve been able to study with some really remarkable teachers and I hope to continue to learn and grow as an artist. This is the life I wanted.

I live with my fiancé Laura, our dog Butch, cat Tim, two unnamed fish, and four crazy chickens (Barb, Nikki, Margene & Rhonda) at our home in Seattle. I own and manage a rental property in the area, but mostly I act. And I love it. Besides that, I treasure spending time with my “Little” through the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound. I also love getting up to the mountains to ski in the winter, hike in the summer, I bicycle all around town, and I try to engage this miraculously functional, Humpty Dumpty body of mine in as many activities as I can.