ABOUT AURORA

AEA || SAG

Growing up, I was never the type to put on plays for my family members, but I was certainly the type to get lost in my own private reveries. I spent hours in the woods, playing “hermit” in handmade stick shelters or “frog hunter” while knee-deep in pond muck. I was not a popular playdate companion—other parents did not approve of me teaching their children to climb trees. At night, I would scare myself to sleep with ghost stories that somehow always took place in my bedroom. I have been a vivid dreamer ever since I can remember.

Storytelling through character is my greatest fascination. If I had been a little more academically minded, I might have been a psychologist or a literary something or other. Instead, I earned my BFA in Performing Arts while at SCAD, where I was required to take classes like color theory and art history. I then moved to NYC where I studied with theatre producer and teacher, Wynn Handman, who believed that all actors are character actors; it was one of my most cherished and influential experiences as a performer.
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What I love most about being an actor is the ability to live many lives within the life that I have already been given. It almost feels like cheating; infinite bonus rounds of glimpsing someone else’s existence. So far I have been a cult devotee, a gun toting 50’s housewife, a Greek general, a love-sick demon conjuror, a Shakespearean ship-wrecked maiden, and a small town anti-hero just to name a few.

I have been lucky in that performing has not only shown me other people’s realities, but also the world. Projects have taken me to locations ranging from the quiet woods of small town New Hampshire to the beautiful and complicated city of Tbilisi, capital of the country of Georgia and the farthest east I have ever been.
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Outside of acting, I enjoy good company and a good laugh. I would describe myself as a cynical optimist, with emphasis on the “optimist” part. I am a Gemini. I love pinball (currently working my way through the machines of New York City), museums, and my bicycle. In the past few months I have started dabbling in watercolors and my very own fire escape herb garden (it was either the herbs or sourdough, but the world was recently out of flour).

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I fucking love Halloween.