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

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

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

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 was born and raised in Denver, CO.