From 1992-95 she was a Resident Professional Theatre Associate at Cornell University. She spent the past 10 years on the west coast, where she served as a Resident Actor/Teacher at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a Resident Artist at PCPA Theatrefest in Santa Maria, California, where she taught Voice and Speech for the Stage. She spent a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting at The University of Illinois, and taught voice and Shakespeare at The Iolani School on Oahu, Hawaii. While teaching young people at Iolani, she became interested in how non-actors could benefit from the voice training and exercises used by people in the performing arts. She is a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) and received her BFA in Acting from Boston University and her MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University.