So, as many of you know, I’ve finally let my inclinations, talent, and love for theatre drive me into a love affair with the five boroughs of New York City. I have an absolutely incredible opportunity to join a home in Manhattan in the month of July with a friend I hold dearly. He’s offered me the opportunity to take over his second room. There’s been a small hiccup recently with my bank and other potential competitors for the room and I need to make haste as I recently learned there are those other people in the running. All I need is to raise $1000 for the deposit, $1200 for the first months rent immediately while I am still paying rent to my grandmother and other bills until I leave. That’s where you come in. The total is $2200. I can’t NOT ask for help. I am desperate to have this place and move on with my life towards my dream because I will never have another wink from God that I can afford a place near Broadway during the exact right time as my family’s lives change and I leave for NYC in July. If I can send the $2200 ASAP to my landlord, it’s mine the minute it’s sent, beating out the competition and securing my spot in the only city where I can start anew and build my dream of being on Broadway in the only way I’ll ever be able to afford it. I am physically working so hard to save as much money as possible but the initial deposit and first months rent is proving the most difficult due to the timeline. I am even picking up 2 more jobs over the next week to work even harder on it.

I’m currently working so hard to save as much money as possible to make this work (and it WILL so long as I secure this apartment) because it's the safest, most financially affordable and softest way I can land as I begin searching for multiple jobs in NYC to pay the bills while also balancing out auditions, vocal, and dance lessons. 

I’ll have at least 4-6 months saved up for rent, bills, moving expenses, and utilities of my own as July 1st approaches. I am simply looking for people who believe in my dream to make it in the theatre community in New York to help me MAKE SURE than I can secure this home through their donations with the first deposit and first months rent before I lose it as I work to buffer my savings further as I move. This will be life-changing for me. Is the most important thing I’ll ever do in. It is the most important favor I will ever ask. I’ve loved NYC my whole life because I’ve always known I belong there. I love it in the way I thought people can only love another person.

I am trying to raise the total $2200 within the next few weeks or sooner so that I can secure the spot before I lose to to several other candidates who may be moving faster along and I can’t lose it. I can’t. It will kill me. I will never ever have this financial luck again to move to a place in Manhattan proper that’s so affordable against the New York economy. To be able to pay this total to the landlord as soon as possible before any others snatch it up will allow me to make sure I can honestly secure the home. I will finally be in the only city where I can realize my dreams and work to make them come true. THE new life. The only right life for me. The one I’ve dreamt of since I was a toddler. It is the most important thing I’ve ever asked for help for… And honestly, probably the last thing I’ll ask my loving friends across the country for. These donations especially if rushed, will throw me RIGHT to that finish line when it’s all said and done and it will secure my future with no more doubt. The future is right within my reach, I just need some help. I can then breathe and focus on living expenses and savings here as I work until I secure a job and some gig jobs once I am in NYC, making my life there sustainable.

What this would mean to me would be indescribable. If you can donate to help me achieve this monumental move before I lose the space, I can’t explain the ways in which it will change my life for the better and set me on the path I’m meant for. The only thing I really love and care about is following this dream. I can’t lose this apartment. I just can’t. I can’t stay in Charlottesville anymore after July and regardless there may be a situation that occurs with a family member where I could possible have to move sooner if an inevitable situation happens. Please help me afford and pay go be able to move into my love to live out my one true dream. To help me pay for the beginning of the most important chapter of my life.

Whether it’s $20, $100, $200, $500, or whatever you can offer, I will humble myself and ask for your contributions for the deposit and the first month. Please consider being an utterly important part of my success as I finally pursue my lifelong dream I’ve put on the back burner for more than two decades. I have been told that I couldn’t hack it, that my dreams are too big, that I wouldn’t make it in the city as an artist, and that I need to aim a little lower. Well, that’s just a lie. I’ve also been told I’ve got what it takes to be a superstar… I just have to be there by July. I agree with them and I believe in myself. I know I have what it takes, I just need to be in the right city with the right people seeking out the right opportunities, casting calls, and education. I reject the notion that what those naysayers express… because my entire life - good or bad, I’ve always come back to my dream of acting and directing the stage - whether I was miserable or completely elated with what I was doing… I always came back to theatre and film. No other job or career has ever done it for me. Ever.

This is the biggest support I’ll ever ask. Theatre is my life and I know I can make it if I just get there while I’m 36. I’m creeping forward to 40 and it can be an ageist industry and I need to get a move on. 

I. Cannot. Lose. This. Living situation. To me estimation, I won’t be able to make the money in a timely fashion. Please help me make this happen. 

Please consider helping me obtain this sublet and you’ll be purchasing me a dream that could and WILL change my life. If I can’t do it, if I can’t at least try, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life. I can really achieve something so meaningful for so many people myself included. 

Thank you for considering helping me. It means so much. I love you all.