As a child I loved TV, so I decided I wanted to make some of it myself. Along the way I figured out the best stuff on TV is made by independent filmmakers, so I became one of those. And I figured out that some of the best stuff, the stuff that makes people laugh, cry and changes the world along the way, never gets shown on TV. So sometimes I make those films, too.

I got a degree from Emerson College in Boston – a great school for filmmakers, actors and social misfits. When I graduated I immediately put my skills to work as a waiter. Soon after, I got a job making TV for the Portland Public Schools. I moved on to work at Portland’s top postproduction house for a couple years. Then I moved to San Francisco, to hone my skills as a social misfit.

In SF I worked as an independent producer/director on a bunch of great projects and studied with some of the best. In 1998 I started work on a documentary about Harry Hay, an amazing activist and the grandfather of social misfits. The film, Hope along the Wind, premiered to a sold out Castro Theatre in 2001, and went on to be broacast on PBS. The film is still in wide circulation through our distributor, Frameline.

In 2002 I moved back to my hometown Portland, where I’ve been working as an independent producer/director on several cool series, most recently on the top rated PBS series, History Detectives.

At the same time that I became fascinated with TV, I also started studying magic, and have studying and performing ever since. In 2006 I did an awesome magic show at Burning Man in the Nevada desert. If you ask nice, I’ll show you a card trick sometime...