I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.