oops, blinked and now it's a snow day in 2025 a week before I open another show
a very belated headshot reveal (📸: @jenheimphoto ) and a chaotic photo dump from the past few months. I found a lot of joy in the little moments, opened and closed Frozen, started Waitress, welcomed some very cool opportunities, celebrated the wins in spite of the world, and took some cutie photos of friends. here's to not taking any of it for granted!
Associate Director ✅️
Dramaturg ✅️
Cover YPS ✅️
Dip Day/Snack Box Coordinator ✅️
Still pinching myself about how wonderful this experience has been. Your girl got a mainstage creative team debut for Christmas this year! This show, this team, and this cast & crew are all truly the best of the best, and I couldn't have asked for a more magical way to start the holiday season. Also very exciting to fulfill my dream to help @sschellhardt into an inflatable rainbow chicken costume for a Halloween designer run - a dream that is second only to that of associate directing for one of my favorite people on the planet.
Don't miss this show @paramountaurora before it closes January 11th! It'll give you all the warm fuzzy feelings you need to face the holidays while watching the most talented people I know sing and dance their faces off. It's a win-win!
Did you hear the news!? Check out Denise Crosby’s column in the Chicago Tribune where she interviews “the kid whisperer of downtown Aurora” - our very own Bailey O’Neil- on our upcoming production of The Lightning Thief!⚡️💙 Link in our bio.
🎭: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
🗓️: June 27th & June 28th
📍: Paramount Theatre
🎟️: Link in bio
#psaaurora #thelightingthief #percyjackson #madeinaurora #chicagotheatre #paramountaurora #musical #chicagotribune
missed a few chapters
notable plot points:
- apple picking with the best
- full monty opened and closed
- backstage trauma candy salad
- loving my job(s)
- wedding celebrations!
- frozen, frozen, frozen
- polaroids with friends
- everything in between 🫶
beautiful (adj.): a word describing the past few weeks as well as the people I've spent them with (not all of whom are pictured but who are equally loved)
see also: the Carole King musical (which I am not working on but did love seeing!)
"See ya, Billy!"
It's been a privilege to be a part of bringing this story to the stage, and the younger version of myself who loved the movie growing up was absolutely living her best life the whole time. This was a beautiful show brought to you by a fantastic group of people both onstage and off, including an insanely talented bunch of young performers who brought such vibrancy, courage, and life to the stage every day. I am so proud of each and every one of these kids, and I'm so grateful to have shared in the joy of this experience with them. (I wish I could tag them all, but instagram doesn't understand that there are 23 of them)
Thanks, Billy, for the late nights, the laughter and the lessons, the backstage mischief, and everything else along the way.
Thanks to Madeline and @littlemissdev for being such an incredible YPS team and truly the backbone of our whole operation.
Also an insane amount of love and gratitude to @laniittaa - without whom, I may have drowned on many an occasion. Can't wait to be in cahoots together again one of these days 💙
I still don't know all that much about ballet, but on the bright side, I do have a new accent to slip into all the time
Don't miss seeing some pretty talented folks in Billy Elliot at Paramount, running through March 24th!
charlie and the chocolate factory closing 1/14/2024 🍫
This whole team fills my heart everyday and i am going to miss you all much
happy closing oompie loompies 💜
