Winner, Best Supporting Actress for Alexa Wright in BULLET POINTS June, 2023

Chicago-born, incessantly asking “WHAT’S BEHIND THAT?”

“Janet, dear, Your voice carries!” my mother used to say, so she enrolled me in Sears Charm School, I am not kidding. At 13, I bombed at the Miss Teenage Sears contest in Chicago. Later we tried singing lessons, a vast improvement.

Comedy took precedence over music. “At home with 3 big brothers, making each other laugh was how we earned respect.” Drama got a foothold later that year when my parents divorced, and theatre became life. I never looked back.