When I was a kid, I would juggle between hobbies and interests. I would go out for every sport like swim, volleyball, soccer, and even karate—which I enjoyed for quite a while. But after a while, almost like a kid with a toy for Christmas, I would get bored and ask my mom if I could try something new. When she signed me up one year for a middle school theatre camp, I figured I would give it a shot, and when those two weeks were over, I practically mourned it. There was a certain feeling of storytelling and getting to put myself into someone else’s shoes that made me feel something I had never felt during any other extracurricular I did.

To pursue art—that I just had to get my hands on and had to be involved in—I took up voice lessons, acting lessons, dance lessons, and I never felt happier and more myself ironically when I was playing someone that was different and telling their story.

I eventually learned more and more about myself differing character traits of a role I played from character traits that were actually myself, and as soon as I started my first semester as a musical theatre major at Wright State, I never have felt more at home in the craft of performing.