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About Me

My Show Biz Pedigree

My Non Show Biz Pedigree

 

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

 

Lone Drifter 
 (Kevin Maher's one man show)

PSNBC
St. Marks Theatre
Trilogy Theatre
Surf Reality

TV Head 2056  (sketch group)

Kraine Theater

Crucify Me! 
 (Jay Oakes' one man show)

Surf Comedy Festival

One Wonders 
(Tom Carrozza's one man show)

Todo Con Nada

Hamlet: 
Satanic Sentinel of the Suburbs

NYC Hamlet Festival
Surf Reality

PLAYWRIGHT

 

Hamlet: 
Satanic Sentinel of the Suburbs 

NYC Hamlet Festival
Surf Reality

The Dice Plays:
Mountain Vampire Goth Chicks 
&
Mrs. Copway's Pony



Todo Con Nada
The Piano Store

Virus: A road movie of the mind

HOME for Theatre & Art

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

 

Mental Furniture

 

Live in LA

HBO New Performers Series

Live at the Public

Joseph Papp Public Theatre

Mental Furniture

American Theatre of Actors

Come Back to the Pain

The Samuel Beckett Theatre

Gestapo Geisha Girls

Todo Con Nada

My Pants Smell Funny

Todo Con Nada

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

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

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

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

 

Off-Broadway and Other Theatre

Macbeth, BSA

Westbeth Theatre
Samuel Beckett Theatre
West Bank Cafe
The Comedy Cellar
The Duplex

The Family Room

West Bank Theatre

All Spoken by 
a Shining Creature

The Piano Store

TRAINING

Improvisation

Paul Sills, The Groundlings East, Tom Carrozza, Jerry Diner, Joey Novick

 

 

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
 

 

 
 

 

     

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)