After studying theater that summer in New York, I returned to Buenos Aires full of energy and ideas and opened an international conservatory styled theater training program for actors, teachers, and students, called the Intensive Theater Training Program: ITTP.  Using simultaneous translators, we brought in instructors from Stella Adler and The London Theater Exchange to teach voice, movement, and text.  For three years it was wildly successful and so much fun!  However, it was not to last, suddenly, the bottom fell out of the economy in Buenos Aires and everything changed.  I made the decision to move the program back home to Michigan. Within a few months ITTP was establish as a summer program for both Grand Valley State University and Muskegon Community College, using the same concepts and many of the same instructors.  Working with local Intermediate School Districts, Faith based programs and Migrant Worker initiatives, we were able to add new theater workshops geared to underserved and inner-city youth.  

In administrating and planning theater training for others I had omitted doing any performance myself and missed it.  Out of the blue I was encouraged to do a demo for Brilliance for audiobooks, an industry I knew relatively little about.  I received several jobs from that demo, but I couldn’t see the financial potential and audiobooks got relegated to the back burner, as other career needs took precedence.

However, as I said, during Covid I become addicted to audio books and started to really explore the industry and how to get involved.  I signed up for coaching with Carol Monda, and Andi Arndt, joined APA, started listening and reading the ‘how to’ and all things audiobook related and decided I want this career and believe it’s the right time.  

I have the training and the ability and found that I love the industry!  My husband and I opened a studio in our home, and dove in.