meet Bailey

Bailey is an actor, singer, and theatremaker. A transplant from her first love, New York City, she currently resides in San Diego and is pursuing an MFA in Acting from the University of California, San Diego.

Collaborators emphasize her passion and joy for creating new plays—she’s always ready to plunge into the unknown.

Various work and affiliations include La Jolla Playhouse, Cygnet Theater, La Mama, TheaterSquared, Playwrights Downtown, Lincoln Center Education, The 24 Hour Plays, New Hazlett Theater, The What Co./The Dramatists Guild of America, and The Players Theater.

At UCSD, Bailey appeared in the world premiere of Milo Cramer’s No Singing In The Navy, a musical about three silly sailors.

This summer, she traveled to Umbria, Italy, as part of the 18th Annual La MaMa Umbria International Playwright Retreat led by Martyna Majok and Kenneth Prestininzi.

As a playwright/actor, Bailey was a William R. Kenan, Jr. Fellow at Lincoln Center Education (LCE) and produced her original play, Prairie, with her collaborator, Cricket Brown. She debuted her first full-length play, PAPA, at New Hazlett Theater as part of their new-play residency series.

In 2020, Bailey received UNCSA’s The Artpreneur of the Year Award Grant, which helped fund her devised play Blue Marble, produced by her theater collective, The What Co.

She is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) BFA Acting program under the leadership of Carl Forsman and Scott Zigler.

She is forever indebted to her teachers Andrew Byrne, Bob Krakower, Ursula Meyer, Marco Barricelli, and Stephen Buescher.