My vocation as a theatre artist began to evolve when I was a senior in high school. I got hooked on the hands-on fabrication and story-telling aspects of the work. Then I discovered that I could exchange the competitive sport requirement for collaborating with a different team of people in the theatre, and I was sold. I exercised my interest in creating by learning on the job to build and paint scenery, how to sew a little, then how to hang and focus lighting instruments. I worked on the fringes of a couple of shows before diving into the deep end of the pool designing scenery and running the light board for the spring senior musical Two Gentlemen of Verona by John Guare and Mel Shapiro. I've been working steadily ever since, averaging a show every five weeks or so. At Allegheny College I secured a work/study position as a carpenter in the Playshop Theatre scene shop and another in the Campus Center Auditorium as a general technician. During my junior year, I spent a semester working in the costume shop to develop a little more skill with a sewing machine. After that year I took a summer stock job at the Black Hills Playhouse. Over the next six years at the BHP, I deliberately explored several positions in an effort to expand my skill-set including Technical Director, Props Master, Stage Manager and Master Carpenter.  As a graduate student at Syracuse, I had an assistantship in the prop shop for three years and taught the props segment of the required Stagecrafts class. Upon graduation I launched my professional career and began free-lance design work.

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At the bottom of this page you can download my 1-page resume or my academic CV which lists all my design credits and a lot more.

 

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Major career milestones:

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• accomplished theatre artist with over 460 production credits

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• 145 scenic design credits

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• 160 lighting design credits in theatre and dance

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• 36 years of summer stock experience

  • 23 years as Production Manager for the (now closed) Saint Michael's Playhouse

  • 16 seasons at the Black Hills Playhouse.

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• taught full time and managed theatre facilities at the university level from 1994-2026 at Saint Michael's College and Marquette University. 

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• worked professionally as a props artisan for six years, three at Syracuse Stage and three at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater

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• stringer with the IATSE in Milwaukee for seven years--included running flys twice for the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera at the Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee 

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• recognized by the faculty of Saint Michael's College with both the Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award (2016) and the Service Award (2025)

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• served in regional and national leadership roles with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival from 2004-2020, and was awarded the Gold Medallion for service twice (2010 and 2018)

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Education:

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• MFA in Design (Masters' Prize) from Syracuse University

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• MA in American History from Syracuse University

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• BA cum laude with a double major in History and Communication Arts/Theatre (Departmental Honors) from Allegheny College

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• graduated from Deerfield Academy where I started working in the theatre