About Me
My Show Biz Pedigree
TELEVISION WRITER
CNN Headline News - Not Just Another Cable News Show
Pundit-Commentator for two seasons
Saturday Night Live
Weekend Update
Mental Furniture (Pilot)
Sunglass Productions
Jeff and Dave Present: Bachelor Lifestyle
Turner Television / Viacom
SCREENWRITER
Celebrity Relapse
Co-written with Lee Michael Cohn optioned by RiverRock Films
Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die
Produced by Surf Reality Films
Listed in Psychotronic Video Guide
Blessed by the Reverend Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius
who made me a minister for it.
Chapel Perilous
Finalist for Best Horror Screenplay at Shriekfest
Some hired gun work
DIRECTOR
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Lone Drifter
(Kevin Maher's one man show)
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PSNBC
St. Marks Theatre
Trilogy Theatre
Surf Reality
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TV Head 2056 (sketch group)
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Kraine Theater
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Crucify Me!
(Jay Oakes' one man show)
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Surf Comedy Festival
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One Wonders
(Tom Carrozza's one man show)
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Todo Con Nada
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Hamlet:
Satanic Sentinel of the Suburbs
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NYC Hamlet Festival
Surf Reality
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PLAYWRIGHT
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Hamlet:
Satanic Sentinel of the Suburbs
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NYC Hamlet Festival
Surf Reality
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The Dice Plays:
Mountain Vampire Goth Chicks
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Mrs. Copway's Pony
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Todo Con Nada
The Piano Store
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Virus: A road movie of the mind
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HOME for Theatre & Art
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ONE-MAN SHOWS
Bug, Snot and Fish
The Emperor Has No Skin
A Time Machine and Twenty Bucks
HOST / MC
Dirty Laundry Lit (2011-2018)
Toyota Comedy Festival - NYC
The Comedy Elite Show (1989-1990)
Serious Pratfalls (1992-1997)
SKETCH COMEDY
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Mental Furniture
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Live in LA
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HBO New Performers Series
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Live at the Public
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Joseph Papp Public Theatre
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Mental Furniture
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American Theatre of Actors
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Come Back to the Pain
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The Samuel Beckett Theatre
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Gestapo Geisha Girls
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Todo Con Nada
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My Pants Smell Funny
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Todo Con Nada
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IMPROVISATION AND COMEDY TROUPES
The First Amendment
Mental Furniture
The Comedy Elite Players
The Alternative Clamheads
Comedy O'Lympix
The Treehouse Cafe Players
The Disposable Giggle Twins
OTHER CLUBS, CABARET AND PERFORMANCE
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The West Bank Cafe
Westbeth Theatre Center
UCB Theatre
Top of the Village Gate
Broadway Baby
The Comic Strip
Stand Up New York
The Comedy Cellar
Comedy U Grand
Paper Moon
Dune Road Comedy Club
The New Theatre
The Kraine Theatre
The Five Spot
Theatorium
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The Comedy Tunnel
The Treehouse Cafe
Bananas Comedy Club
Backstage
Billy Jack Cafe
Comedy Works
The Improv
The Comedy Store
The Laugh Factory
HOME
Sanford Meisner Theatre
The Public Theatre
Astro's Turf
The Playground
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ACTOR
Film
Alien Sex Phone Psycho
The Puerto Rican Mambo
Cracking Up
Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die
Macbeth, King of Scoutland
Manic a Go-Go
Pledge Night
Television
Saturday Night Live (bit)
Comedy Central's Chef Promos
Troma's Edge TV (BBC)
Go Radiowave Boy! (Japanese TV
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Off-Broadway and Other Theatre
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Macbeth, BSA
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Westbeth Theatre
Samuel Beckett Theatre
West Bank Cafe
The Comedy Cellar
The Duplex
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The Family Room
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West Bank Theatre
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All Spoken by
a Shining Creature
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The Piano Store
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TRAINING
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Improvisation
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Paul Sills, The Groundlings East, Tom Carrozza, Jerry Diner, Joey Novick
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Education
University of California Riverside - Palm Desert Graduate Center
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
and Writing for the Performing Arts
Primary - Screenwriting
Secondary - Playwriting and Non-Fiction
Thesis was a horror comedy script
Wrote papers and lectured about the psychological
aspects of horror cinema
State University of New York at New Paltz
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts
Concentrations in Acting/Directing and Playwriting
Second City Training Center Los Angeles
Writing Program Graduate
New York University Continuing Education
Courses in filmmaking, screenwriting and AVID
UCLA Daniel Geffen School of Medicine Center for Pre-Hospital Care
Emergency Medical Technician 1
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My Non-Show Biz Pedigree
Emergency Medical Technician 1
UCLA Daniel Geffen School of Medicine Center for Pre-Hospital Care
Worked a rig doing fire calls with Torrance Fire Department / Gerber Ambulance
National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
Auxiliary Police Officer
New York City Police Department - 13th Precinct
In-Service with Traffic Enforcement and Integrity Control (Internal Affairs)
Valedictorian of training class
Community Academy Graduate
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department - West Hollywood
Team Leader - Damage Assessment Team
Federal Emergency Management Agency's Community Emergency Response Team
West Hollywood
New York Budo
The Shaolin Temple
Tree man - cutter - climber
Bartender (Times Square)
Bouncer (The Palladium)
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