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I directed plays for 10 years, from the time I started studying theater at Duke University, through two years in Berlin, Germany, then three years at the Drama School at Yale, where I earned an MFA in directing, and for two years after that. I directed at venues such as Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York, and at New York's Fordham University. My two most important acting teachers were Evan Yionoulis and Earle Gister, both of whom served as chairs of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama. I am very grateful to both of them for the knowledge and wisdom they have imparted.

Theater companies and institutions for which I have worked, in various capacities, include: the Magic Theater, Playwright's Center of San Francisco, the Yale Repertory Theater, Manhattan Class Company, Syracuse Stage, Mabou Mines New York, Schaubuehne am Lehniner Platz, Arc-Light Repertory Theater SF, Yale Summer School Acting Program, Northwestern University's National High School Institute, Emerging Artists (New York), The Flea (New York),Odyssey Theater Ensemble (Los Angeles), Fordham University, Fairfield University, and Clark University. I have directed productions of plays by William Shakespeare, Maria Irene Fornes, Peter Handke, Edward Albee, Eric Overmyer, Wallace Shawn, John Guare, John Webster, Kandor and Ebb, Liz Duffy Adams, Julie McKee, Robert Curtis, Jody McAuliffe and Brian Bauman, among others.

Artists and thinkers who have inspired me over the years include, in no particular order, Anton Chekhov, Belle and Sebastian, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Smiths, Patti Smith, John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Liz LeCompte and the Wooster Group, Howard Korder, Marcel Proust, Blink-182, Miranda July, Bertolt Brecht, Mark Brokaw, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Kiki and Herb, David Armstrong, Neal Bell, Brett Bourbon, Francis Bacon, Vermeer, Sandra Bernhard, Seymour Hoffman, Henry James, Richard Gilman, Liz Duffy Adams, Klaus Michael Grueber, Georg Buechner, William Shakespeare, John Webster, Henrik Ibsen, Wallace Stevens, Robin Bennett, Joan Didion, Brian Bauman, Ming Cho Lee, Jackson Phippin and Maria Irene Fornes. There have been many others.