Small-town southern Illinois kid grows up singing Von Trapp-style with her family, majors in musical theater, uses her voice in national tours, Off- and on Broadway, in the recording studio, at the Academy Awards with the cast of Les Misérables, and on the Tony stage just off Cynthia Erivo’s right shoulder. Spends the first decade of her professional career learning to turn off her potent inner director/critic/perfectionist and become a fully present, deeply joyful artist. And then . . . somewhere between curtain calls and recording sessions and endless auditions, she becomes very, very interested in power — who has it, who wants it, who gets heard, who has to hide, what it costs, and how we build the future of what it looks and sounds like.