There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists.

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

I’ve always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.

My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.

I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.

I was born and raised in Denver, CO.