As an actor, Broadway: Dividing the Estate at the Booth.  Off Broadway: Orphans Home Cycle at Signature, Dividing the Estate at Primary Stages, The Trip to Bountiful at Signature, Y2K & Bits and Pieces at MTC, Cantorial at the LAMBS, Cahoots at the South Street Theatre, Subject to Fits, Happiness Cage at the PUBLIC, War of the Roses, Twelfth Night, Peer Gynt at the Delacorte. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf directed by Arthur Penn, Last Moon directed by Estelle Parsons, Machinal directed by Arthur Storch - at the Actors Studio, Diminished Capacity by Tom Dulac at The New Group, Slouching Toward the Millennium by Murray Schisgal at the 42nd Street Workshop.  Regional: Breaking Legs at the Pasadena Playhouse, Serenading Louie at Cincinnati Playhouse, Shooting Craps at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Film: Side by Each with Blythe Danner, The Baxter, Soldier’s Heart, Fresh Cut Grass.  TV: “Rescue Me,” Episodes of  ‘Law & Order,” “Law & Order: CI,” “Law & Order: SVU.”

As a writer I have had Equity showcase productions in New York of Knock 'Em Dead at the Image, Breaking Through the Clutter at the 42nd Workshop, three one-act plays under the title of Urban Disorders at the Company of Characters, Easy Street at the Quaigh, and A Dress Unknown at the West Bank. I have also had rehearsed staged readings of: Black Duck Bay, Dying For You, Orange Bees at 42nd Workshop, George Washington’s Farewell to his Mother at the Actor's Studio PD UNIT, and Violent Child at EST.

I attended SUNY-Geneseo, with a major in theatre. My academic background includes courses at the New School with Edward Mabley and Joe Chaikin. Member: Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Dramatists Guild of America. Outer Critics Circle nominee and Drama Desk winner.

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