Composition Is Frozen/Not Playing

Recently upgraded my Mac to macOS Monterey

Recently upgraded After Effects to v 22.01

I've been working on a personal project for a few days and suddenly the composition stopped previewing properly. Every time I open the project file and try to play the video, nothing will happen, it just remains frozen on this first frame shown below. I've restarted my computer, force quit after effects numerous times, and remained patient for three days now but the problem doesn't seem to resolve itself.  A couple times, the composition played however froze once again about 20 frames forward. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!