Acting & Immersive Performance

I was not raised on a stage. I was rarely chosen for school plays, choirs, talent shows, or the roles I once hoped to inhabit. Acting did not begin as a childhood résumé. It arrived much later, as a deliberate threshold.

Around 2017, I attended my first Renaissance faire and immediately recognized something I wanted to enter. I took acting classes, auditioned, created costumes, and developed my first character: Fleur Soleil, a French alchemist. The name carried an unexpected resonance, recalling the sunflower role I had never been given as a child. This time, I created the role for myself.

That first character opened an entire world.

Since then, my work has moved through Renaissance performance, interactive murder mysteries, seasonal comedy, haunted attractions, screen appearances, and immersive entertainment with Riverside Entertainment. I have portrayed alchemists and apparitions, comic villains and historical horrors, nuns, crones, jesters, conspiracists, and creatures shaped for a particular night and audience.

I do not remember the work primarily by dates. I remember the roles. I remember the rooms, the costumes, the improvisations, and the moment an audience began to believe.

For me, performance is larger than reciting a part. It is character study made physical—built through voice, timing, silhouette, makeup, costume, gesture, emotional architecture, and the living exchange between performer and audience.