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About Me

UPDATE March 31, 2008... So my current musical tribute is a murdered cover of Dean Dyson's "Honey Trap". If you want to hear the original, visit Dean's page (see below) and be sure and listen to all the other brilliant songs he does!My next tribute / butchering will have to be "London Cries" by Daniel Cainer or my Daniel Cainer Medley entitled "I am a Bald British Secular Jew" which sounds more like a Gilbert and Sullivan piece.I am deciding whether to return to Edinburgh again and do a world tour of "Cowboys and Indians!" Maybe I'll do the show in Avignon at the "OFF" Festival AND also in DUBLIN too! For those who don't know, "Cowboys and Indians: Dot, Not Feather" was my smash hit one man show in Edinburgh at this August's Festival Fringe. Thanks to Alex Petty and Laughing Horse Free Festival, Leanne Stott, Shelley Cooper, Mike Manera, Chris McCausland and especially KAZ! Also to Manjit, Kurt, Jason and my Mom! Visit www.freefestival.co.uk for more info! Also, getting prepared to submit "Stealing Buffalo" to major theatres for possible productions and to publishers to be, well, published, of course! If you saw it at the Gardner Stages in Hollywood, many many thanks! "Stealing Buffalo" is a play I wrote with Vern Urich about two Hollywood wannabes who take matters into their own hands when Samuel French witholds the rights to perform "American Buffalo" by David Mamet. My production company, Kingswell Productions (www.kingswellproductions.com) co-produced the play with Reel Eyes Enterprises. Next up for Kingswell is a film I wrote called "Little Frankie" which was on hold until the incorporation went through. "Harsh Times" starring Christian Bale and ME is now available on DVD. So are "Happy Feet" and "Night at the Museum" Buy them all! They keep airing "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" on the Disney Channel so if you see a fat man in a white electrical engineer outfit, that's me. For those who don't know me, I have a VERY USEFUL degree in Medieval Drama from the University of Chicago and do acting, writing, composing and even computer programming! I love to play the piano, travel and read history.

My Interests

Theater, Comedy, Music, History, Travel and Dining!

Music:

Colin Hay, Nickel Creek, Murder of Crows, Diana Krall, Rachel Yamagata, Oscar Cainer, Daniel Cainer, Dean Dyson and Jeremy Reid! Yes, YOU, you talented maniac!Styles I like: Classical, Baroque, Jazz, Ragtime, Musical Theatre, Rennaisance, Choral, 70's rock, 80's electronica and anything on KCRW!

Bach, Miles Davis, Debussy, Durufle, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Peter Gabriel, Colin Hay, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Strouse, Depeche Mode, Bob Seger, Chicago, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Vince Guaraldi, Stravinski, Holst, Dvorak, Herbie Hancock, Louis Armstrong etc....

Movies:

(In no particular order) It's a Wonderful Life, Brazil, Midnight Run, Stalag 17, Lost in Translation, Glengarry Glen Ross, War Games, The Shawshank Redemption, The Last Tempation, A Gentlemen's Agreement, Training Day, Greed, The General, Dave, Failsafe, Back to the Future, Marty, The King or Comedy etc...

Television:

Shows I've been on! ER, Without a Trace, Alias, Las Vegas, Just Legal, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody! I admit it... I Tivo Judge Judy and People's Court. ALSO; 24, Everwood, West Wing, In Justice, Numb3rs and... Law and Order: Criminally Insane Bystanders (it's new, really!)

Books:

The Once and Future King and The Book of Merlin by T.H. White, The Eight, London, The Trial, The Stranger, Disclipline and Punish, Zero: Biography of a Dangerous Idea and, last but not least, Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, What's the Matter with Kansas? by Tommy Franks (not the general)

Heroes:

Jonathan Winters, John and Abigail Adams, Frank Capra, Rob Reiner, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Mike Nichols and Elaine May and last but not least, Vaclev Havel.