I consider myself a "fun-i-fyer" of education. I even coined that term to describe myself. Give me a subject or a topic and I can make it fun for whatever age group you have in mind. Using the Swiss Army knife of educational tools that is Theatre, I devise, activities, games, short scripts, songs, dances, and lots of creative dramatics (where the students "become" the electrons, or the elements in a painting or the digestive system). I use toys, puppets, magic tricks, and loads of humor to take on history, literacy, geometry, physics--just about anything.

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I grew up in Kentucky in a little town called Georgetown. Always enough of an athlete to make the team, but never really good enough to play in actual games, I discovered theatre when I was 15 (at the exact same time I discovered girls)!

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I was the greatest actor in the world (everybody told me so, especially my mom) until I transferred from a small college to a university when I was nineteen, and found out my acting talent was more suitable to building and painting sets.

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After graduating college I earned an Equity card and a graduate degree and become enough of an actor to get professional acting work back home in Kentucky. I also fell in love with a New York actress who wanted to move back home. So off I went to NYC.

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I’ve been in NYC since 1995, mostly using theatre as an education tool in zoos and museums. I write scripts and music, and I write and present educational programs. I’ve also written and illustrated self-published books. I have settled at the northern tip of Manhattan with that girl from Kentucky who wanted to move back to New York. We have two daughters, a dog named Peanut, a cat named Bootsie, a gecko, a guinea pig, a cockatiel, and various fish.