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BIOGRAPHY

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I started performing at 15 with Lighten Up Improv Co. in Kansas City, Missouri.  I was at a show with some friends from high school and thought, “I can do that.”  Two weeks, an audition, and an improv intensive later I was thrown on stage and hooked.  Columbia College Chicago followed, along with classes at Second City and Improv Olympic.  I got more and more into theatre, and less into improv.   I wanted to be the best actor I could be – and as much as I loved making people laugh, I knew that I needed more training.

I crashed the audition for Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s professional actor training program – and got in.  I got paid to go to school, received a Master’s degree, my equity card, and met the love of my life, Liz.   After grad school I backpacked through Italy for three months; then Chile for another month.  It was life changing and awesome – I was able to go to the places Shakespeare wrote about, and see Pablo Neruda’s houses on the other side of the Atlantic.  I ate incredible food, grew a huge beard, climbed a volcano, went to wine festivals, saw great theatre, and rode horses on the beach.  The next adventure was NYC. We lived in Queens for five years. Gigs came and went. New York was great; filled with highs and lows and friends and inspiration and hustle. 

We moved to Nashville. Liz graduated with her Masters in Nursing from Vanderbilt University, and practices as a Nurse Midwife and Educator.  I’ve had the opportunity to not only work on amazing TV (STRANGER THINGS, THE WALKING DEAD), Film (THE SAURUS at SXSW), and Theatre (Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival); I founded Nashville Story Garden, an incubator for original film, theatre and modern media projects. Other work includes directing my first short, TENNIS TIPS WITH FREDDY LOVE, receiving an Individual Arts Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and becoming an associate artist at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, where I finished wrote & performed the World Premiere of  LOST LAUGHS: THE SLAPSTICK TRAGEDY OF FATTY ARBUCKLE. While in Nashville, Liz and I also welcomed two wonderful additions to our family, our daughters Mabel & Frances.

At the beginning of 2019 we relocated to Champiagn-Urbana, as I started an assistant professor position at the University of Illinois in the acting area.  I continue to be amazed by my proudest collaboration to date, my daughters.  I’m excited about the future of theatre and can’t wait for more chances to work with talented people, challenge my students, go hiking with my girls, and enjoy a cigar on my porch.

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