This is where and how I developed a capacity to honor and remain faithful to an original, creative voice. I also worked in the Sound Department of the NYU Film School, which marked the beginning of an academic career that continues to this day. I worked as a contributing writer and technician with the Rude Mechanicals on their seminal play Lipstick Traces. My award-winning bilingual short play, “Papeles,” has been produced throughout the US and internationally. I’m the former Artistic Director of the Fort Lauderdale Fringe Festival and the current Drama Editor for the Stone Canoe literary journal.

Today, I work as an acting and voice-over talent, coach, Casting Director, Director and editor, and am a National Michael Chekov Association certified teacher and trainer of that acting technique. I currently teach acting and other subjects at Syracuse University, and work as a writer and in content development with MYGOSH.co, a production company based in Zurich. I develop my own material and regularly work as a freelance script consultant and writer. I’m based in central NY, where I live with my wife and two children.

I’ve worked in the entertainment industry for over 35 years. I wrote and directed a play at 17 and started in media as a radio producer, DJ, and newscaster while I was still in high school. Initially, I was in the Houston area and later, while based in the LA area, I was syndicated. While in LA, I also worked in TV, Film, and theater before moving to New York, where I eventually worked with world-renowned theatre director Richard Schechner as part of his East Coast Artists company.

While in New York, I also worked with the Teleo, Ninth Street, and Bond Street Theater companies, usually on productions in spaces like La Mama ETC, P.S. 122, NADA, and HERE. I also worked at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. My specialty was Production Dramaturgy, both adapting and translating canonical texts to the contemporary stage.