I am a professional artist with over twenty years of multi-disciplinary experience. In 2019, after twelve years working professionally in New York City, I received my M.F.A. in Acting from Louisiana State University. I am currently residing and working as an actor/writer/director/teacher in the Northern California region.

As an actor in good standing with Actor’s Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, my resume spans Broadway National Tours, Off-Broadway, Regional Theatre, Soap Opera, Episodic Television, and major Motion Pictures. Additionally, I have over ten years’ experience as an Audition Reader in the most respected casting offices in New York City, and let me tell you… those stories are something.

As a playwright, and Associate Member of the Dramatist Guild of America, my work has been presented by New York’s Naked Angels, Theatre Aspen, B Street Theatre, and the Redhouse Theatre in Syracuse, NY. My play, SNUC, was chosen as a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, and my play, Trophy Room, was selected as a Second Rounder by the Austin Film Festival’s Playwriting Competition.

But that’s all just resume. What do I believe? Well, in the grand tradition of my Irish ancestors, I believe in whiskey and poetry. Or maybe the poetry of whiskey?

I believe in teachers that say, “Yes. And?” I’ve been lucky to have several—Sully, Clark, my parents—who all gave me permission to let out the weird, the silly, the certain something…different.

I believe in New York City. A place that can beat you up and grind you down, all in service of the greater goal of reinvention. But you gotta be present, gotta want it, gotta take it on the chin and say, “What else you got?”

I believe in the audition room. The 10 years I spent as an audition reader for Telsey, Carnahan, Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2ndStage, Dave Cap, and others were better than any class I could have taken. I believe there were days I was a better reader than actor, and I’m okay with that because we’ve all had that person in the room that just wasn’t in the room, you know?

I believe plays that aim to change the world should first aim to entertain because you can’t change a mind if it isn’t paying attention.

I believe in passion and empathy and I believe the two should be inseparable, especially in the classroom.

I believe that maybe this is a little too long, but…