The short version:

Based in Brooklyn, NY
Trained at UMN/Guthrie BFA and Brown/Trinity MFA.
Credits include the Alliance Theatre, Asolo Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and many others across the regional theater.
Special affinity for language-driven work.
Teaches voice and text for Atlantic Acting School/NYU Tisch.

Growing up as an introverted kid in rural Georgia, my parents put me in acting class to help me develop social skills. This was pretty good for a boy happiest living in his imagination! I stuck with it through high school, where our scrappy drama club produced ambitious shows in the school cafeteria with little more than a few platforms and boxes.

Acting was the thing I enjoyed most as a young person, but it shifted from a hobby to a vocation when I went to the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program for drama. At GHP, we did plays from the English Restoration, and I loved the elevated language, style, and outrageousness of characters like Lord Foppington in The Relapse. I remember asking my teacher if it was possible to make a living in the theater, doing plays like that. “Maybe.” he said. “But it will be difficult.”

Two years later, I found myself in Minnesota as a student at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA program. There, I was happily immersed in the plays of Shakespeare, Moliere, Euripides, Shaw, and Chekhov, and soaked up the mastery of the longtime Guthrie actors. Two years after graduating, I went for my MFA at Brown University/Trinity Rep. At B/T, I was working almost every waking minute, whether in class, understudying at Trinity, rehearsing our graduate shows, or teaching undergraduates at Brown. I was in heaven.

Now based out of downtown Brooklyn, I’ve played Hamlet for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, performed across the country in regional theater, and acted in world-premiere work by playwrights Brendan Pelsue and Robert Schenkkan. I’m also on the faculty at Atlantic Acting School, where I teach voice and text to students at NYU Tisch. When I’m not acting or teaching, you can find me studying the Alexander Technique at the Sapientia Initiative, practicing meditation at my local Zen center, or with my head in a book.