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I’m an actor and writer. Mhm. Now a step-ball-change and a tra-la-la. Then a modest curtsy.

Some of the questions that guide my work: where do tragedy and comedy meet? 1 where do they stray? how can sloppy communication amount to something that’s like sort of kinda actually precise? 2 which knob controls love? 3 how much should stories leave to interpretation? 4 how should we choose what to care about? 5 what’s a healthy amount of delusion? 6 why are we crying? why do they think that? why not? 7

Recent work includes a leading role in three feature films: Danny in Sinkholes, a surrealist apocalypse film directed by Graham Cooper, Freddy Farner in Humbly Yours, Hassock, an indie comedy directed by Tanna Herr, and Spork Gorgle in Town & City, a dark comedy shot on 16mm, directed by Toshin Rao and produced by Parker Love Bowling.

M.F.A. in Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and a B.A. in Drama and Creative Writing from Columbia University.