NICOLE ZYLSTRA

I've been telling stories my whole life. It started with playing Barbies with my friend Josette Campbell next door. Josette liked defining what the barbies were doing ahead of time. I always wanted to give them a voice and "just see what happens next." I didn't know it then, but I was improvising. I've been doing it ever since... When I stopped playing with Barbies, I started writing stories down. I still heard the characters speaking in my head. So I listened to the voices and just wrote down what they said. Eventually I would discover this was called "Playwrighting." I did that for a long time. I wrote comedy, musicals, and gothic dramas with a modern twist. I also discovered that I liked being other people, and so an acting career was born.