Since I was a little girl, Gilda Radner has been my hero. My mom used to make tiny braids in my hair when it was wet so when it dried up, we opened the braids and my hair would get really big and I would do Roseanne Roseannadanna impressions. Even now, I pray to Gilda before I go on stage.

My first play was in elementary school as an elf. In high school, I performed in three more: Beckett's Endgame as Hamm, the French student Fifi in If Sherlock Holmes Was a Woman and as Annie, a very timid maid in Life With Father.

After college, I saw a show about SNL and Second City was mentioned as the training ground for my heroes. I signed up for classes at the more affordable Players Workshop of Second City and began commuting to Chicago from Michigan on the weekends to learn improv. In 1998, I moved to Chicago, went to Second City around 2002 and a variety of projects ensued.

On November 10th of 2007, I moved to New York with a job-in-waiting, two months worth of hostel reservations, a backpack filled to capacity and a pillow resembling an angry prairie dog.

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