Born the son of a carpenter, his mother's name was Mary. He was raised a cowboy and drawn to the theatre by watching old movies and sketch comedy shows from the 70's. He left the FFA in 1979 and joined the drama club in High School. In college he met Deb Lund and James Lawrence. Two of his closest freinds, who he still enjoys working with today. He became a board member with Sandy Community Players for a while and then moved on to Portland in the early 80's and worked with PAE, The Phoenix Theatre Company, the Sumus and others. After 23 years of Stage and TV he can now be seen regularly performing improvisational interactive murder mysteries on the Mt. Hood Railroad and working with The Grace Institute, attempting to replace arts programs that schools have cut.

It was watching old movies like "Animal Crackers" that made him love the idea of being a performer. There can be no evil in making people smile and laugh so hard that they feel the sting of pepsi squirting from their noses. That is my dream.