After teaching high school English for 4 years in Noblesville, Indiana, she moved to Macomb, IL, to acquire her MFA in Theatre Directing from Western Illinois University. In the 3 years after she graduated, she moved to Chicago, got married, had a baby, and started teaching in the Quad Cities. Now she has 2 kids and she heads the theatre program at Moline High School in Illinois, home of the Bartlett Performing Arts Center.