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I was born and raised in Port Townsend Washington, the most beautiful place on the planet. Growing up in the woods and on the water surrounded by retirees and benevolent hippies gave me a unique perspective on the natural world and it’s residents. At 18 I moved to New York City to attend NYU, just in time for 9/11. After redefining the term “rocky start,” I quickly found my place with the other young actors and actresses learning how to live in the big city. Four years and some life moments later I was thrust into the world with a useless BFA in Theatre and a dream: to get paid to create.

I’ve been chasing that dream for the past five years. I’ve lived all over the city and tried my hand at more creative pursuits then I ever knew existed, including actor, poet, singer, dancer, stand-up comedian, musician (both rock star & DJ), screenwriter, sketch-writer, improvisor, blogger and social commentator. After a lot of flailing and a lot of rejection, I came to terms with the fact that if I was ever going to make something of myself I needed to stop fitting myself into other people’s categories and tap into what made me unique. In short, I had to become the one thing I’d always been afraid to call myself: an artist. I began writing and producing my own comedy shows and have never been happier.

I make shows designed to both entertain and enlighten, taking the intelligence and social values with which I was raised and applying them to the commercial capitalist culture in which I came of age. My goal is to expose the hypocrisies of modern existence and the little joys we overlook. My pieces are like a funhouse mirror on society: distorted, irreverent, sometimes ugly, but always showing us a side of something that we haven’t quite seen before.