To live is to create, and to create is to live.

Ever since I was a child, all I’ve wanted to do is tell stories, imagine, and spend time in the whimsical worlds that existed in my daydreams. As an adult, much of my work as an artist has been a struggle to try and re-discover that unlimited childhood creativity that so quickly gets lost in the unflinching realities of life in a capitalist society. The stage allows me to immerse myself in people and worlds both different and similar to myself, and through me link them to an audience. Every role I take is an opportunity to better understand myself by understanding someone else.

I am first and foremost, a magician. Storytelling is the closest many of us get to genuine magic, and it is one of the oldest and most powerful forms of communication and community we have ever discovered. Stories put us in contact and in relationship with our past, and allow us to imagine futures that have been denied to us in the present. No thesis of any story I ever tell with be that mankind is beyond redemption.

Instead, in both written and performed work I will almost always pose the opposite question, for myself, for my People, and for the world at large: What if tomorrow is better?