ABOUT BROOKE
For this BIO, I agonized over whether I should talk in 3rd or 1st person.
So, whoop, here it is:
A Baton Rouge native, I first caught the acting bug while portraying “Lazy Mary” in Kindergarten. I had to walk around in a blue silky nightgown and pretend to be sleepy. Instead, I walked around pretending to be sexy. It was the closest I’ve gotten to being Blanche duBois (to date). As a Leo with a Gemini rising, I have been anything but a Lazy Mary. I spent much of my childhood in south Louisiana doing rigorous trampoline extravaganzas, puppet shows and dance performances...which only my dogs Matthew, Peter and Sniffy attended. I decided to take my shows on the road - enlisting (or forcing, some may argue) new friends in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina to perform with me. We landed greater audiences who watched us re-enact the iconic final scene from Dirty Dancing...just a stone's throw from where they shot Dirty Dancing! Enough with the childhood stuff.
Some of my television credits include Co-Star roles on FBI (Season 6), Manifest (Final Season), Blue Bloods (Season 9 Series Premiere), High Maintenance (Season 4), Law and Order SVU (Seasons 12 & 14), Cinemax's Quarry (Pilot) and ABC's What Would You Do? (recurring). I returned to my Louisiana roots for supporting role in the feature film The Runner starring Nicholas Cage and Sarah Paulson and represented my current Jersey roots with a supporting role in The Girl Who Invented Kissing starring Dash Mihok, Vincent Piazza and Suki Waterhouse. (How's that for obnoxious name dropping?) I have also appeared in several award winning indie films including Hudson, Trust Me, I'm a Lifeguard, Blue Bags Float in Salt Water, Three Grand Souls and Jersey Shore Massacre.
I continue to improv, improve, and create my own projects under my production company
FLUFFY BUTT PRODUCTIONS which include:
SHYFT Ride Share Gone Wrong. Shyft was co-written by yours truly and Harinder Sood and directed by Jennifer Plotzke. We took home BEST SHORT at the Northeast Mountain Film Festival in Dillard, Georgia, PRINCETON TIGER AWARD at Nassau Film Festival in Princeton, New Jersey and RUNNER UP for BEST SHORT SHORT at the Brightside Shorts Film Festival. I won BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SHORT SHORT at the Cutting Room International Short Film Festival in NYC.
PHAT GIRL COSTUMES One Big Girl. A TON of Costumes. My solo show premiered in workshop as part of Emerging Artist Theatre's New Works Series under the direction of Brian Lady. I examine my struggles with body acceptance and finding my inner PHAT girl (PHAT: Pretty Hot And Tempting) by revisiting Halloween costumes of yore (handmade by my Momma) in this heartfelt and humorous TED talk meets story telling show.
PAGEANT POM MOM There's a Beauty Pageant Winner in All of Us. It's Best in Show meets Toddlers & Tiaras, combining improv and mockumentary style with a heartfelt message. I created this web series based on my sketch character Rowena Singh with the help of my late senior rescue Pomeranians Precious and Kibbles. Pageant Pom Mom has currently raised nearly a thousand bones for NJ, LA and NC rescue groups. You can watch it HERE
I still perform my trampoline extravaganzas. They’re just on an indoor trampoline nowadays. My rescue dogs, Annie and Archer, and I would love to have you in the audience one day.
Me circa 1980 something being “extra”
(before “extra” was a thing)
on a riding lawnmower.
My production company Fluffy Butt Productions was founded in 2013 with web series Pageant Pom Mom. Fluffy Butt Productions. Crazy name, huh? I love dogs so much that I scream when I see their fluffy butt shake from a mile away. And, that's the same feeling I get when I perform and create. An odd name, yes. But, always heart, honesty...and sometimes a lot of fluff behind our productions.
