As women, we have super powers. We are sisters. We are healers. We are mothers. We are goddess warriors.
Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.
I have a Manhattan club chair in dark espresso leather that I always read in. It's a place where I can contemplate other people's thoughts and stir my imagination.
Chicago actors and Chicago theater is some of the most authentic stuff that you will ever encounter, and I'm so proud to have come up from that. It's where I cut my teeth and where I found my passion for this work.
I enjoy hearing from different people who have turned their personal struggles into something that can inspire others and encourage people to push past hard times.
If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.
By always looking out and always moving myself forward and being disciplined and being open to new experiences, I think that's how I was able to diversify because if it felt right to me creatively, I went for it. It didn't matter if I knew how to do that, I just did it because my creative heart felt pulled to it. That seems to have worked out.
I've been in leadership roles on Broadway, and it's one thing to lead a Broadway company - you're with those people for a year straight, and you're doing that same show, eight shows a week. It's quite another when you carry on the story... You go beyond that, and you ride the wave of a character.
I was born in Japan, and then we went to Korea, and I was raised in Nebraska.
Monty Python has such a huge following... myself included.