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 a sensitive, introverted kid in rural Georgia, my parents put me in acting class to help me develop social skills. This was a pretty good move 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. Minimalist, actor-driven work is still my favorite kind of theater.

Acting was the thing I enjoyed most as a young person, but it shifted from a hobby to a vocation when I attended the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program for drama as a rising senior. At GHP, we performed plays from the English Restoration, and I found I had some instinct for 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.

And now, I’m living that life in the theater I wondered about when I was 16. 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 a member of the faculty at Atlantic Acting School, where I pass on skills I’ve learned in voice and text to students at NYU Tisch. I look forward to expanding my work into television and film, but more than ever I believe in the power of extravagant language and live, actor-driven theater. Get in touch if you do, too.