She is a professional actor and director as well as a voice and dialects coach. She studied acting at the Actors Center in New York with academy award winning actress Olympia Dukakis and Moscow Art Theatre director Slava Dolchechev. She has studied heightened voice work with Patsy Rodenberg of the Royal National Theatre in London and is a Certified Teacher of Fitmaurice Voicework® having studied with Katherine Fitzmaurice. She has studied Second City Improvisation Techniques with Second City co-founder Paul Sills and daughter, Aretha Sills and holds an MFA in Acting from Purdue University.