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Being born near Boston means I have heard colorful (often crude), diverse language from a young age. My parents have some of the thickest Boston accents you will ever come across.

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When I was six, my parents and I had to move down South. We ended up in mountain town Hendersonville, North Carolina, closest to the Blue Ridge Mountains. For years, everyone asked Ma to say, "Pahk ya cah."

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5 Things To Do On Your Blue Ridge Parkway Road Trip

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Portrayal of Fagin in the musical "Oliver!"

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I developed an unhealthy addiction to Charles Dickens as a little girl. He wrote characters with an "improper" dialect and strong, Cockney accents. My personal obsession was to The Artful Dodger, a thief from the slums of London. From Dickens, came an interest in Jane Austen, and many other authors of classic literature.

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Flat Rock Playhouse in Flat Rock, North Carolina 

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I have been acting in regional theatre from the time I was nine-years-old (Theatre Arts is now my major). This instilled a strict idea of language in my life, in which I had to remain neutrally-spoken until a script suggested otherwise. Again, I found myself around northern adults, mostly from NYC.

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"Private Lives" at Gardner-Webb University

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Found my niche in historical drama/comedy. My resume starts with scripts written on the Holocaust and then ranges from musicals set in the 1920s, to plays written by Ibsen, Coward, Shakespeare, and Glaspell. All very difficult language and composition that this generation is becoming less familiar with.