About

Acting

I’m from the Chicago area and discovered acting in my early 20s when I attended an acting class and then was cast in a community theater production of the Wizard of Oz. Playing the Scarecrow in that play inspired me to keep going. I’ve acted in approximately 35 plays. A few of my favorite roles were Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Scrooge/Dickens in A Christmas Carol, Alvaro in The Rose Tattoo, and in the Ensemble for Spoon River Anthology. During those early days I also took classes at the Players Workshop of Second City to learn the skills of improv, as well as acting in workshop classes.

Much later I discovered the excitement of film acting and have acted in 20+ films; a mixture of Shorts and Indie Features. For me, the relationships you build from both film making and putting on a play is as important as the production itself.

Writing

Writing was something I only dabbled in, but it was accelerated when I took a screenwriting course in Chicago and we were required to write a full feature moving and bring in a new 15 pages every two weeks. Since then, I’ve written three features and three shorts. Writing reminds me of golf. It’s difficult to do, but occasionally you hit a few good shots.

Directing

I’ve directed about a dozen plays, most of them for the Pendulum Theatre Company. We staged our plays at the Athenaeum Theater in Chicago. The two standout memories was the play The Quick Change Room ( which Chicago Tribune chief critic Richard Christiansen called one of the top five theater moments of 1998 ) and our production of Abundance, a Beth Henley play that we were Jeff Nominated for.

I’ve also directed two short films that I wrote: Bob and Edgar and Fingerprints.

Producing

In the 1990s I co-founded a 501(c)(3) not for profit theater called the Pendulum Theatre Company. The company ran for seven years and I was the Artistic Director. We performed one to two plays per year at the Athenaeum Theater (Chicago) and I produced the plays. My role included fund-raising, grant writing, play selection, casting.

On the film side of things, I produced the short films Bob and Edgar and Fingerprints.

Film related pics:

Qwerty film cast — Part of the cast from the film **Qwerty**.

Team from Worlds Worst Porn film — Team from the film **The World’s Worst Porn Film**.

Shot setup for Bob and Edgar film — Setting up a shot from the film **Bob and Edgar**.

Bill Redding and Josh Hope — With Writer / Director Josh Hope. I’ve been in several of Josh’s films.

Shot setup for film Fingerprints — Setting up a shot for the film **Fingerprints**.

Shot setup for film, Peter — Setting up a shot for the film **Peter**.

Bill Redding, Bill Sebastian, Dana Sebastian from Qwerty film — With Bill and Dana Sebastian, director and lead actress from the film **Qwerty**.

Elgin Film Festival for film Bob and Edgar — From the Elgin Film Festival. They let us bring the star (black lab), Edgar, from the film **Bob and Edgar**.

Theater Related Pics:

Scene from Pride and Prejudice — A younger me in **Pride and Prejudice**.

Scene from the Diary of Anne Frank — From the play The **Diary of Anne Frank**.

Scene from Twelfth Night — From the play **Twelfth Night**. I played Orsino.

Scene from the play Confusions — From an early play that I directed, called **Confusions**.

Scene from the play, Abundance — From a play I directed, called **Abundance**.

Cast of the play The Beginning of August — Cast from the play, **The Beginning of August.** That’s me, the tall one.

Scene from the play, The Quick Change Room — From a play I directed, called **The Quick Change Room**.

Cast from the play, Say Goodnight Gracie — Cast of the play, **Say Goodnight Gracie**. Very old pic. I’m on the right.

Cast and Crew from the play, The Insect Play — Cast and Crew from a play I directed, called **The Inspect Play**.

Cast from the play, The Laramie Project — Cast from the play, **The Laramie Project.**