I was born in New Mexico (where I had a pet tarantula), grew up in North Carolina, and managed to live in Ohio for a few months in between. My parents never let me do any yard work growing up (even though they really wanted me to) because of our unruly lawn mower (thank GOD!), so instead I played with Legos and dreamed of becoming an architect.

That dream lasted until my freshman year of high school, when I stumbled upon theatre after my dear friend Timeka convinced me to audition for the spring musical because they needed someone to play a jockey - and let’s face it, I’m a little guy, so I fit the bill...

So dressed as a jockey named Legs Ruby singing “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” I became the resident theatre geek of my high school.

Taking on my newfound title meant having to juggle my new theatre geek responsibilities with my already overwhelming band geek responsibilities and my geek geek responsibilities (I only made one “B” in high school...drat ELPS - Economic, Legal and Political Systems!) - so needless to say, I was busy.

The spring semester of my sophomore year of high school, I started participating in the local theatre scene, performing with my local community theatre and joining a season with the local summer stock company (my first “professional” job). And the summer before my senior year, I was BLESSED to have been chosen to study drama for six weeks at the Governor’s School of North Carolina.

After an intense college search (with a little divine intervention - ask me about it sometime), I ended up at Catawba College in Salisbury, NC, where I studied musical theatre and dance, and graduated with my BFA.

High school was where I discovered my passion for theatre and acting; college was where I discovered my passion for dance - specifically contemporary and modern dance. The summer before my junior year of college, I spent six weeks studying at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC. Besides taking class and driving the shuttle bus between classes (yup, I am licensed to drive a school bus!) I had the opportunity to premier a new work (commissioned by the festival) from Russian choreographer Tatiana Baganova called “Lazy Susan.”

A crazy string of jobs has taken me all over North America and Japan (where I lived for two years), and now I’m in New York City living the artist’s dream!