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As an actor & writer, my work has taken to me some amazingly challenging places, I have been held at gunpoint after performing at the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, spent a homeless night out on the streets of NYC during a trip out to PSNBC to perform a new solo play, chased a purse-snatcher outside Baltimore’s CENTER STAGE and slept in a Ax & Sickle-covered cottage in the deep woods while performing at Ojai’s Theater 150, not to mention taking the stage to sing Jazz (I don’t) at Chicago’s famous Green Mill during a shoot in the Windy City but the most amazing (and challenging) place my career has ever taken me is pulling me from my Boston roots and placing me in Beverly Hills where my NY wife and I raise three LA kids….
Along the way, I received a BFA in Theater from the University of Maryland, completed the New Actor’s Workshop in NYC (with Mike Nichols, Paul Sills & George Morrison), studied with the late Sanford Meisner and learned stand-up comedy on the stages of THE COMEDY STORE, The ICEHOUSE, & Boston’s famous NICK’S COMEDY STORE.
Recently, my critically acclaimed solo play, A CHILD LEFT BEHIND was an LA WEEKLY “PICK OF THE WEEK! GO!” as well as being heralded as “Compelling… a First Rate Education…” by the LA Times which was a follow up to my HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Selection, A CHILD’S PLAY. Last year, my full-length play, RAP was selected as BEST NEW PLAY 2011 by the African-American Playwrights Exchange and is currently being developed as a pilot.
I’m currently performing around Los Angeles and hoping to avoid any guns, homeless nights or attempts to sing Jazz…..
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