Bio
is the co-founder of PURE Theatre. Acting credits at PURE include Fully Committed, The Trial of the Gentleman Pirate Stede Bonnet, Underneath the Lintel, The Christians, Glengarry Glen Ross, Penelope, Annapurna, A Behanding in Spokane, Superior Donuts, Up, The Pillowman, The Lonesome West, Cloud Tectonics, Eurydice, and The Tragedian. On television he has appeared on Ozark, One Tree Hill, Medicine Ball, Army Wives, and Reckless. Directing credits at PURE include Straight White Men, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Failure: A Love Story, Outside Mullingar, Clybourne Park, Good People, Tell, and Jesus Hopped the “A” Train. His feature film Steaming Milk won runner-up Best Actor and Best Director awards at the 1997 Seattle International Film Festival and was chosen as a Best of the Fest of The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is a two-time winner of the National/LAFF Screenwriting scholarship and winner of the 2010 Playwriting fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission. His plays, including Sic Semper Tyrannis, The Trial of the Gentleman Pirate Stede Bonnet, The Tragedian, Killing Chickens, Fairgrounds, What Comes Around, Tell, Cowboys, and Waffle Haus Christmas, have been produced in New York City, Seattle, Charlotte, Charleston and Plovdiv, Bulgaria.