At 14, developed her acting talents in an eight-week program at Philadelphia's Society Hill Playhouse, where students wrote and performed their own scripts
Was accepted into the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan
Discovered while working as a receptionist at a fitness club
Stage work at the Lark Play Development Center in New York includes Andrea Thome's Undone in 2003 and Kristoffer Diaz's Welcome to Arroyo's in 2005