(he/him/his)

Choreographer, Destiny of Desire

Other theatres: Broadway: Acting: Ragtime, Stand-Up Tragedy. Off-Broadway: Acting: Insurrection: Holding History; associate producer, The Two-Character Play. Regional: Directing/Choreographing: Caroline, or Change (Tantrum Theater); Between Riverside and Crazy (Cleveland Play House); Destiny of Desire (Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Goodman Theatre); Game of Love and Chance (San Jose Repertory Theatre); Twelfth Night (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Perseverance Theater); Thunder Knocking on the Door (A Contemporary Theater); Puddin’ N Pete (The Old Globe Theatre); Young Jelly in Jelly’s Last Jam (world premiere, Mark Taper Forum). 

Other credits: Associated Artistic Director, Cleveland Play House (2016–present); Director of Artistic Programming, Arena Stage (2014–2016). 

Film and TV: L.A. Confidential, Adventures in Wonderland. 

Awards: SDCF Charles Abbott Directing Fellow; San Diego Critics Circle Award; two-time honoree, Bay Area Critics Circle Award; Helen Hayes Award nominee; 2017 Best Musical Tony-winner, Dear Evan Hansen was scouted, developed, world premiered under his watch at Arena Stage. 

Teaching: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House, University of San Diego MFA/BA programs. 

Education: Certificate in Nonprofit Executive Leadership (IUPUI); MFA, University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival.