What do you do for a living?
I am an actor/director. For the past six years, I was also a lecturer for the UCSC Theatre Arts Department
What would you be doing if you weren’t doing that?
I think I’d make a good spy. But I’d probably end up being an attorney.
What do you do in your free time?
I’m a travel junkie. And a beer drinker.
What brought you to Santa Cruz?
Paul Whitworth hired me to work at Shakespeare Santa Cruz in 1997. I worked here off and on until moving permanently in 2003 when Danny Scheie offered me a teaching job.
What’s your favorite street?
Meder Street past Western. Wildlife + Convenience = Awesome
Name something you’re excited about.
I’m going to the Galapagos islands in September, and I can barely sleep from thinking about it.
Name a pet peeve.
You know how sometimes you’re waiting to turn left in a single lane and someone in a giant truck or SUV wedges themselves in between you and the curb to turn right and you can’t see oncoming traffic any more so you have to wait for them to turn before you so you can see again? Drives me through the roof.
What are you reading?
Robinson Crusoe, which was an inspiration for the play I’m doing at SSC right now and for Louis de Rougemont, the man upon whom the play is based.
What’s the most important thing you’ve learned in the last three years?
That I can share my life with someone and enjoy it.
Recent personal food trend?
Charcuterie.
