Growing up, I was terrible at sports. After a decade of bench-warming for church-league soccer and basketball games and feeling a little like a misfit, this nerd found her niche: musical theater. I started doing plays with a group called the Pilgrim Players when I was in sixth grade. I played Flower #3 and Milkmaid #6 in Beauty and the Beast, and from there, I was hooked, acting and singing my way through middle school and high school in every music- and/or theater-related afterschool activity possible. In spite of my love for storytelling through both choir and acting, the curtain call...