After being cast, and truly feeling how much I loved acting, I changed from a Theatre Production track to a Performance track, and graduated from UNT having majored in Theatre and minored in French. Around this time I also did a summer intensive at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland and got to explore the gorgeous world of Irish Theatre, while drinking many a Guiness. After that I continued my travels and went to live in Cusco, Peru for six months where I taught English in the women’s prison and drank many pisco sours. After making my way up South and Central America, I moved back to Texas to begin my career in Dallas theatre.

During my time in Dallas, I got to work in several wonderful plays, the first of which was Tina’s Journey which required me to be trained in mask acting. It was very new and difficult for me, but opened up this world of more surrealist plays, as well as allowing me to work with Latine theatre companies, both in Dallas and in Mexico City. I also got trained in being a teaching artist, with a focus on teaching children’s theatre, and that has been a surprising joy for me, considering I have all the natural nurturing instincts of a crocodile. In early 2020, I was cast as my first lead role in a professional production in Cara Mia Theatre’s The House on Mango Street. So, in mid February I quit my day job to pursue acting full time and then two weeks later Coronavirus hit the States, so the dream of being a full time actor was immediately cut short, and I cannot wait for the day that I find the timing of that incredibly hilarious. After trudging through the worst chunk of the pandemic, I was cast in Prism Movement Theatre’s Lucha Teotl as one of the wrestling commentators, and got to try out my standup skills by coming up with new jokes every night, which felt very necessary after how hard the past year and a half had been for everyone.