I first got involved in theatre as a high schooler. I fell hard and I fell fast! Before my first performance at Kansas City Christian school (we were doing The Sound Of Music), I was incredibly nervous. My director and mentor, Brian Miller, gave me the best piece of advice he could have: “just tell the story.” Since then, I have been obsessed with telling good stories. I’ve worked all over Kansas City and studied under top professionals at Shenandoah Conservatory. But one thing was constantly missing: good stories with good messages. Art influences culture, and a lot of the art that I had been seeing was telling the audience messages that lead to destruction, division, and confusion. In the summer of 2023, I came to Jeremiah Enna and the Culture House with an idea: a brand new professional theatre company that tells stories that matter, good stories with good messages. That idea evolved into the Balladeer Theatre Company. I hope to foster an artistic community of collaboration through an all-hands-on-deck approach: everybody who is a part of the company helps out with anything they can. As we continue to grow, I am excited to invite more artists and community members to collaborate on new and existing work to help create a new culture of outstanding, biblically-minded art.