Teaching Experience

• 2023 (March) SXSW XR Mentor
• 2023 (February) LEAP Conference Speaker – New Storytelling Forms for XR and the Metaverse
• 2nd annual tech conference in Riyadh Saudi Arabia
  
• Two solo talks: Teaching the Creative and New Storytelling form for XR
• Panelist: Storytelling for Learning
• 2023 (February) Stage32.com Webinar – Storytelling in the Metaverse
• Metaverse introduction as well as new storytelling forms for immersive activations.
• 2022 (June) Addressed the House of Lords – UK Parliament
• Invited by the British think tank Big Innovation Center to speak on storytelling in the Metaverse. 
• Was directly quoted by Member Chris Holmes in wrap-up. 
• 2021-present Adjunct II Professor: Game Arts: California College of the Arts

Courses Taught:

• Immersive Storytelling (Fall ’21)
• 2012-2021 Teacher/Director/Outreach Coordinator: Berkeley Rep School of Theater, Berkeley, CA

Courses Taught:

• Screenwriting (Spring ’21, Summer ‘21) Summer Film Intensive (Summer 2014-2018) Acting (Summer 2012, 2018)
• Improv (Summer 2012; 2013)
• Director: “The Boatman,” “The Albatross,” “Evangeline,” “Flying” (Summer 2014-2017)
• 2017-2019 Acting Instructor/Mentor (Owner and Director) Flanders Acting Studio, Brussels, BE. 

Courses Taught:

• Scene Study
• Introduction to Physical Acting and Intro-Mix
• 2015-2017 Acting Instructor/Mentor IAFT: Lead Acting Mentor, Antwerp, BE. 

Courses Taught:

• Professional Development Script Analysis
• Scene Study 301/302 Acting for Camera 301 Acting 404
• 2014, 2015 Lead Instructor: Creativity Through Short-Film Procter and Gamble IT Off-Site Creativity Training Event: 6 Hour Film Festival Brussels, BE and Geneva, CH
• 2013 (spring) Co-Teacher: Bloody Shakespeare, I Make iMovies P.S. 87 After-School Program, New York, 

Courses Taught:

• Bloody Shakespeare I Make iMovies
• 2006-2012 Teacher/Director: Movement, Acting, Film History Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), Los Angeles, CA

Courses Taught:

• Film History
• Second Year Movement Third Year Acting
• Director: Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, and Durrenmatt’s The Visit.

• 2010 Artistic and Education Associate: The Antaeus Theater Company, North Hollywood, CA 
• 1998-2006 Instructor (Stage Combat): California Shakespeare Theater, Orinda, CA

Courses Taught:

• Stage Combat (Summer 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006)

• 2005-2006 Instructor/Outreach Coordinator: Children’s Fairyland, Oakland, CA 2000-2002 Teacher/Stage Combat Instructor: School for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
• 1996-2006 Resident Stage Combat Instructor/Choreographer: Impact Theater, Berkeley, CA
• 1996-1998 Instructor: Lafayette Arts and Science Foundation, Lafayette, CA 

Courses Taught:

• The Study of Performance: What the Actor Goes Through (Spring 1998) Passion, Dramatic Structure and Checkov (Lecture) (Fall 1997)
• Brecht and German Expressionism (Lecture) (Spring 1997, Spring 1998) Violence in Shakespearean Drama – (Lecture) (Fall 1996, Fall 1997)
• 1996 Guest Instructor- Armed/Unarmed Stage Combat Workshops: Boston University Opera Institute, Boston, MA
• 1995 Guest Instructor Armed Combat Middlesex Community College, Middlesex, MA
• 1993-1995 Instructor/Co-Teacher: Boston University, Conservatory Training Program, Boston, MA 

Course Taught

• Movement Instructor – (Thesis) (Spring 1995)
• Co-Teacher Unarmed Combat (Co-Teacher Fall 1995)
• Teaching Assistant Armed and Unarmed Combat (Spring 1995, Fall 1994, 1993)

Education

• 1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts – Boston University Class of 1996

Professional Accomplishments

Game Writing, Film Writing, and Narrative Design

2019-2022	The Werewolf Experience – Writer/Director/Narrative Design – 3D VR (Release Q1 ’22)
2021	Dying Light 2 – Script Doctor/Writer – AAA Videogame (Release Q4 ’21)
2021	A Blooming Business: Casino – Lead Writer – Videogame (Release Q3-4 ’21)
2021	Influencer – Lead Writer – Mobile Game (Release Q3 ’21)
2021	Brilliant Mind – Narrative Designer- Digital Theatre Experience
2020-2021	Drunk, Zombie Duelists – Writer/Director: VR/360
2018-2019	Ary and the Secret of the Seasons – Narrative Designer/Writer: – Multi-Platform Videogame
2018	The Bellwether – Feature Film /360 Immersive Project
2016	Among the Shadows – (Screenwriting; Rewrite) Feature Film
2015	Airmen – Short Film
2014-2019	Development: Left Field Ventures (Feature Film/Television) Developed multiple feature film and television projects for Brussels based, internationally produced production company.

2012	Billy Gee and Double – Screenwriter (Feature Films)
2011	Men of the Tree and Misdirection – Short Films
2010	Stick and Knife – Screenwriter – Feature Commissioned feature script for Suntaur Entertainment. A mid-budgeted martial-arts-epic, focusing on the Pilipino martial-art of Kali.
2010	Gallows Humor – Short Film
2009	American Cowslip – Feature Additional Dialogue
2008	…less than kind – Short Film
2008-2012	Development/Script Coverage: GMI Film Finance
2003	Tour Consultant/Creator (Immersive Tour Packages), Pacific Agenda
Directing (Film and 360°)
2021	Drunk Zombie Duelists Vol Cap 360	Reality+
2017	The Bellwether feature	Reality+
2016	The Bellwether 360° film	Reality+
2015	Take It to the Grave	Broken Buddha Productions
2011	Men of the Tree	Inland Lake Prod.
2008	The Box	Broken Buddha Productions
2007	…less than kind	More than Kin, LLC
2005	Not A Toy	Broken Buddha Productions

Directing, Producing (Theater)

2017	Kiss the Sky	Berkeley Rep SOT
2016	Evangeline	Berkeley Rep SOT
2015	The Albatross	Berkeley Rep SOT
2014	Charon	Berkeley Rep SOT
2011	*The Visit	LA Theater Center
2010	Dramatis Personae	The Antaeus Company
2010	The Menstrual Show	Theater of NOTE
2009	*Metamorphoses	Pasadena Community College

2007	Taming of the Shrew	Shakespeare by the Sea
2006	Shakespeare Show (co-director)	LACHSA
2005	Much Ado About Nothing	Albany Theater Ensemble
2004	Money & Run Ep. I-III	Impact Theatre
2004	*Yippie Skippy: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes	Albany Theater Ensemble
2003	*Mother: A Modern Buddhist Fairy Tale	Broken Buddha Productions
2003	Baggage	Golden Thread Productions

Professional Affiliations

• Writer’s Guild of America West: Videogame Caucus Member Founder, Broken Buddha Productions
• Impact Theatre Co-Founder
• Actor’s Equity Association Membership Candidate
• Society of American Fight Directors Advanced Actor/ Combatant Certified in All Six Weapons Categories Artist in Residence: Z Space Studios in San Francisco
• Artist in Residence: School of the Arts, San Francisco, Alternative High School Speaker/Instructor at Multiple National Conferences/Institutions:
• CETA (California Educational Theater Association), 
• Californian Thespian Festival, CASH Grant (Bay Area), 
• USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 
• The BIFFF (Brussels International Film Festival), etc.

Awards

• Special Jury Prize for “…less than kind” awarded by Jonathan Demme Most Kick-Ass Fight Choreography
• Award-2000: SF Bay Guardian Best Actor: Folger Shakespeare Festival
• Lightness to Darkness Characterization Award: Folger Shakespeare Festival