Artist Biography

I am a performing artist with a background as an actor both in the United States and in England and have performed as a dancer in ballet and modern dance. I was also a founding member of the queer, multi-racial, multi-disciplinary performance company Out/Rage (2003-2004) that dealt with issues of race and racism in the gay male community. 

Since 2002, I have created dance/theatre works as a solo-artist and for my past performance collaborative, GROUP, focused on investigating the outsider experience shared by minority groups in American culture. GROUP was an AIRspace Artist-in-Residence at The Jon Sims Center in 2005 and was selected for encore performances in the National Queer Arts Festival in 2006. In 2007, I collaborated with two local choreographers to produce an evening of dance called Shared Space at Dance Mission Theatre. I have also premiered solo-dance/theatre pieces at The Garage for the Move(men)t Festival, 2009, and at SOMArts for the This Is What I Want Festival, 2011, and at Cal State University East Bay’s Queer Dance Festival, 2012. In 2013, I was selected to perform an original work at the Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City in July.

I hold a BA in Drama from U.C. Irvine and studied a year abroad at the University of Warwick, England, in Theatre Studies. I also hold a MA in Mythological Studies with a Depth Psychology Emphasis from Pacifica Graduate Institute. I am a graduate of Naropa University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre: Contemporary Performance, where I studied with guest artists from Tectonic Theatre Company and SITI Company. While in the Denver area I also performed with a Butoh company and with Butoh artist Katsura Kan. Now living in Chicago, I continue creating work through the performative synthesis of the moving body with theatrical use of the voice, text, and objects.