"...a walking/talking vaudeville act." -Matthew Everett
"...the kind of art that begets art..." -Caitlin Gilmet

Experience

1995-2002 Masque Theatre, Rochester, MN
Actor, Director, Playwright, Company Member, Dramaturg
-performed puppetry, storytelling, mime, and street theatre at various venues in SE MN
-director of the Mime Troupe and head of the Mime program
-performed in over 25 mainstage roles, including Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice"
and Ichabod Crane in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
-directed and adapted various projects, including Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the
Snark, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm

1996-2002, 2006 Renaissance Festival, Shakopee, MN
Street and Stage Entertainer
-wrote, developed, and performed comic adaptations of myths and fairy tales, including
Norse Tales, Moliere's The Flying Doctor, and Raven Rescues the Light
-helped earn the company a special "Gem" award for street improvisation

2004-2007 Maximum Verbosity, Minneapolis, MN
Actor, Director, Playwright, Producer
-founded Maximum Verbosity, a touring theatre troupe
-wrote and directed the slapstick musical "Lokasenna" (2004 Fringe Festival)
-wrote and directed the expressionistic verse tragedy "Camelot is Crumbling" (2005 Fringe Festival)
-wrote and directed the mime show "Warrior Needs Food, Badly" (2006 FoolFest)
-wrote and directed the political sketch comedy "Libertarian Rage"

-wrote and performed the solo storytelling show "Descendant of Dragons" (2007 Iowa and Minnesota Fringe Festivals; bestselling show in its venue in the latter)

2005-2007 Other
-director of "Fortune's Fools," a youth troupe at the Rochester Civic Theatre
-reviewer for the Ivey Awards and the Minnesota Fringe
-performer and stage manager for Holly Davis' "Goddess" for the Spiritual Fringe

Training

-studied mime from Kari Margolis (co-founder of the Margolis-Brown Performance

Company), Mikael Rudolph, and extensively from Steve Budas (both mimes)
-clowning workshops from Pierre Byland and Jon Ferguson, both European clowns
-studied Commedia Dell'Arte from Luverne Seiffert and Dominique Serrand, both
company members at Theatre de la Jeune Lune

Special Skills

Puppetry, Improvisation, Clowning, Mime, Mask Building and Performance, Martial
Arts, Gymnastics, Juggling, Fencing, Stage Combat, Commedia Dell'Arte, Poetry