With over five years of classical text training and performance experience, my love of Shakespeare and heightened language has built a strong foundation of rigor, flexibility, and curiosity that I bring to every rehearsal room that I'm a part of. Whether its an exciting new work or a play that hasn't been staged in centuries, I'm happiest when I'm collaborating with folks on the best way to tell a story.
On stage, I'm often seen playing the scrappy opportunist, the lone voice of reason, the tight-wound clown, or the lover with some baggage (sometimes more than one of these in the same play). I'm also an experienced stage combatant comfortable with armed and unarmed violence on stage - see my combat page for more details!
Favorite roles during my time in Mary Baldwin University's Shakespeare and Performance MFA program include Macbeth in Macbeth, Alice Arden in Arden of Faversham, and Lady Meanwell in the world premiere of The Frolicks, or The Lawyer Cheated.
Weirdest place I've performed? The very small kitchen of a Montessori school!
THE WINTER'S TALE
Polixenes
Elsewhere Shakespeare
company directed
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Katherina, Tranio, Gremio
Mortal Fools Collective
dir. Kelsey Harrison
"The Petruchio and Katherina relationship is hard to “fix”, but Knight and Potter found a persuasive balance between coercion and cooperation."
- Peter Kirwan, The Bardathon
THE TEMPEST
Prospero
Vagabond Shakespeare
company directed
dir. Kelsey Harrison
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Oberon, Peter Quince, Duke Theseus
Warehouse Theatre
dir. Jay Briggs
HENRY IV: TREAD ON KINGS
Prince Hal, King Henry V
Elsewhere Shakespeare
company directed
MACBETH
Macbeth
Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble
dir. Andrew Steven Knight and Katelyn Spurgin
dir. Jay Briggs
"What were the witches trying to achieve with Macbeth? In Potter’s performance, they found an endlessly fascinating subject."
- Peter Kirwan, The Bardathon
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
Julia, The Duke, Sir Eglamour
Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble
dir. Kelsey Harrison and Beth Somerville
"[Potter's] Julia, meanwhile, was the production’s heart...Julia fretted with her hands and displaced her unsurety onto the audience endearingly, first tearing up the letter that Lucetta had pointedly dropped and picked up in order to make a point, and then desperately sharing her piecing-together of the letter with the audience. But Potter’s Julia also had a fine line in self-aware wryness; no-one was a bigger critic of Julia than Julia herself."
- Peter Kirwan, The Bardathon
THE BIRTH OF MERLIN
The Hermit, Bishop, 2nd Gentleman, Morgana Spirit, Ghost Band
Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble
company directed
"The only person who had authority to stand up against Artesia seemed to be the Hermit (Potter in a hilarious grey beard and brown habit). The Hermit stood as a defiant moral compass in the production’s first half...paving the way for the greater magician who would follow him."
- Peter Kirwan, The Bardathon
C.Q.D.
The Mail Clerk
Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble
dir. Doreen Bechtol and Molly Seremet
EDWARD II
Earl of Kent, Musician
Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble
dir. Michael Manocchio
