Born in Oklahoma in 1975 and raised in upstate New York and central Florida, took up playwriting as a Marine in Southern California and spent the next decade supporting his habit with jobs as a carpenter, programmer, fisherman, teacher, before settling on a career in Polish and German translation. Along the way, wrote and directed plays in Krakow, Berlin and London, earned a Masters in philosophy from the Jagiellonian University and studied directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. In 2014, moved to Los Angeles, where he crewed on half a dozen films at AFI, produced several plays and shot his first feature, Manifesto (now on Amazon Prime). Based in Astoria, Queens, from 2018-20, served as editor of Reviews from Underground and continued to write and direct. New York productions include Squatters, Washed in the Blood, The Jail at Philippi, and The Journey which ran February 6-23, 2020 at The Tank. Currently lives and works at The Bicycle House, Yellow Bicycle’s new artistic home in Philadelphia.