About Me

Basic Info
Name: Colleen
Birthday: January 13, 1980
Ethnicity: Mostly Irish, lotta German, and no doubt some Scotch-welsh too. (man, I should be able to hold my liquor better!)
Major in College Theatre
Minor in College English
Favorite Author of All Time Henry David Thoreau or Kurt Vonnegut
Favorite Modern Playwright Max Frisch or Neil LaBute
Favorite Shakespearean Drama King Lear
Favorite Shakespearean Comedy The Tempest
Favorite Musical Chess (yes, the cheesy 80's musical. I swear it could rock if you took out some of the synthesizers)
Favorite Musical Genre Mostly Top 40, but I try not to listen too much.
Favorite TV Drama Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, 24, CSI - any of them
Favorite Reality TV Show American Idol, Extreme Makeover: Home Addition
Likes
- Frozen Yogurt
- Saturday mornings
- Kitties and puppies
- Nickelodeon Cartoons
- Directing other people
Dislikes
- Lasagna
- Nuts (almonds, cashews, etc)
- Bad Directions
- Icy Roads
- TGI Fridays
My life in a nutshell
I'm originally from Long Beach, CA where I grew up in the same house from birth till I left for college. I had a fairly normal childhood: one older brother to beat up on me, cats to cuddle with and loving parents. My mother is a microbiologist for the county health department. She's had the same job for 35 years. My dad was a technical writer and saftey inspector for McDonald Douglass (now Boeing), but he passed away in 1992 from an unexpected heart attack.
Although my primary interest in high school was musical theatre, I decided to go to Rochester Institute of Technology for Mechanical Engineering, no doubt inspired by my father. I thought I would like to be an astronaut and I probably still have some of that in me. But...it was really too dry for me and I changed my mind after two years. I was accepted to Vanderbilt University where I finished with a BS in Theatre and English in May of 2003. I completed my MBA through the online program at University of Pheonix in 2006.