my world

photography

I have photographed celebrities and executives, astronauts and rockstars. My work has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Genii, and the San Francisco Gate.

My photograph, “Echoes,” was featured in the show San Diego Keeps Her Promise: Balboa Park at 100 at the San Diego Art Institute in 2015.

I shoot entirely on film using vintage cameras. My 35mm camera of choice is a 1955 Leica M3. For medium format, my main camera is a 1971 Hasselblad 500 CM. For large format, I shoot a 1951 Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic 4×5 and a 1923 Eastman 2D 8×10.

writing

I have been teaching writing at UC San Diego since 2010. I have PhDs in Theatre from UC San Diego and in Drama from UC Irvine. I absolutely adore working with new generations of writers to find their own unique voices.

I have designed many new writing courses at the university including: The Art of the Manifesto; Cindy Sherman, The New Selfie, and the Dissolution of Privacy; Iconic Identities: Star Wars, Cosplay, and the Performance of Identity; The Real-World Multiverse: Photoshopping a New Reality; Photography and the Cult of Celebrity; Not Just Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem: Identity in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock; Performing Sexuality: Censorship and Power in Pop Culture; and Virgins,Vamps; and Flappers: Women in Film in the 1920s.

performance

I have been involved in over 25 productions as a director and actor including The Rocky Horror Show, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Pippin, and Six Characters in Search of an Author. My most recent show, An Evening with Will & The Witch, played at the La Jolla Playhouse and was directed by Jim Carmody.

I am an active playwright and screenwriter and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. I have served as a screenwriting judge for the Austin Film Festival and the Catalina Film Festival. I have worked doing coverage for the Austin Film Festival to help develop the next generation of screenwriters.

television

“Painting Pandemonium.” Mighty Express. Netflix. 2020.

books - nonfiction

“We all go a little mad sometimes: Freeing the audience from the role of the oppressor in Psycho.” Horror Literature and Dark Fantasy: Challenging Genres. 2018.

“Lindy Hop and the Isolation of Appropriation.” Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre. Ed. Nadine George. London: Oxford University Press. 2015.