He graduated from Richardson High School as a National Honor Society Scholar and performed his first award-winning play, EZRA, in 1994.
He received his BA degree from Southern Methodist University with honors in 1998 where he was a winner of the New Visions New Voices competition.
He was the recipient of the 2004 PAC/edge Commission Award, with which he created and directed the collaborative performance Air Tact Light, and a 2005 grant from the Chicago Cultural Affairs Department, which funded in-part the Weather Talking show Discarded Landscape.
Other pieces include We Were the World, Year, Detail From the Mountain Side, Tuning In To the Power of Active Listening / Understanding Shyness, and Wheat Studies, 1888, Kansas Brian and Jill were the loves of their lives.
He has created work for the Curious Theater Branch (Histrionica with Banjo), The Neo-Futurists (Alice), and Lucky Pierre (32 Key Concepts).