“My parents are immigrants (mom from the Philippines and dad from Dominican Republic). I have been singing since I was 5 years old (Filipinos love their karaoke), but got into acting at 15 because I was really into movies at the time. After seeing the Broadway production of Memphis, I thought to myself, “wow, there are people my color on that stage; I wanna do that!” My first play in high school was A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and my first musical was Guys & Dolls. I even got to play one of the leads senior year as Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz! I joined my school’s show choir, the Scranton Knight Rhythms for my junior and senior year. After doing my freshman year of the MT program at Marywood University, I found myself not loving school anymore. With the encouragement of several educators from high school and college, I moved to NYC to pursue acting professionally in 2017. It was scary having little to no formal training other than hands-on experience from community theatre productions and the few productions I had during my education. But I had determination to figure it out as I went. Since then, I’ve had several beautiful opportunities which included a handful of short Off-Off-Broadway and Off-Broadway runs, regional productions, cabarets, new works and the like. Since coming out as fully non-binary mid-2023, life has been nothing but constant growth. My goal as an artist in this world is to continue to change people’s perceptions of not just how a role can be seen outside of a person’s gender or skin color, but who can play them. I fully believe that we are all each other’s future cast mates, choreographers, directors, music directors, producers, etc. I don’t believe in competition. I genuinely want everyone to succeed with kindness. I am so happy to be surrounded by so many people in my community to share in this light and continue to guide me along the way.”