About

I am a Theatre Artist. I am a Director. I am an Actor. "Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of the theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions; in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure; in spite of tears and feverish gaiety — this is the only life I know. It is the life I love.” -Robert Helpmann "The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster." - Oscar Wilde

Education

• University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts
• Marymount Manhattan College

Favorite saying

• ""Allow me to propose a few suggestions about how to handle the natural resistances that your circumstances might offer. Do not assume that you have to have some prescribed conditions to do your best work. Do not wait. Do not wait for enough time or money to accomplish what you think you have in mind. Do not wait for what you assume is the appropriate, stress-free environment. Do not wait for maturity or insight or wisdom. Do not wait until you are sure you know what you are doing. Do not wait until you have enough technique. What you do now will determine the the quality and scope of your future endeavors" -Anne Bogart “When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, “We’re all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.” If you’re not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.” -David Mamet “A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.” -Dario Fo “Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of the theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions; in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure; in spite of tears and feverish gaiety — this is the only life I know. It is the life I love.” -Robert Helpmann “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” -Oscar Wilde "Be careful of your thoughts, they become your words. Be careful of your words, they becomes your actions. Be careful of your actions, they become your character. Be careful of your character because it becomes your destiny!" -Author unknown. "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." -Washington Irving "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will NOT refuse to do the something that I can do." - Helen Keller "All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox "And What he greatly thought he nobly dared." -Homer "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi "It is impossible to enjoy idling throughly unless one has plenty of work to do." -Jerome K. Jerome "If you have knowledge let others light their candles in it." -Margaret Fuller "The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose." -Montaigne "Pre-examine all you have been told...Dismiss what insults your soul." -Walt Witman "How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves whether or not God actually wants them around?" - Steve Simon "Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection." — Lady Gaga "Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy." -J.K Rowling"