The author of The Bohemian Love Diaries, a personal perspectives blogger for Psychology Today, and a laughter yoga teacher, he is best known for his one-man performance-based storytelling shows which combine clever wordplay, music, and poetic observations about family, spirituality, romantic relationships, and struggles to find a sense of home common with Generation X artists.

He is a first-generation American and a third generation artist descended from a grandfather who was a dancer at the Moulin Rouge and a father, Mike Coleman,[2] who is a prolific sculptor.

He legally changed his first name to Slashtipher with his barmitzva money to illuminate his Jewish past and to honor his grandparents who worked for the French Resistance during the war.

[7] The show, which seeks to illuminate a young man's challenge with his sense of place in the world after his best friend's death, included 7 monologues about friendship and an original music score.

Coleman portrayed 6 characters in the production which chronicled a young boy named Jeffrey Rabbit who practiced a peculiar courtship ritual that involved giving women unusual cardboard boxes while struggling with his attempts at love and his anxieties about rejection.

[16] Subsequent fringe festival venues included: Washington, DC;[17] Boulder, CO;[18] Minneapolis, MN; Long Island, NY;[19] and Provincetown, MA.

Coleman donated 100% of ticket sales either back to the Jamison family, host venues or charities and helped raise nearly $100,000 for non-profits including children's hospitals, bereavement organizations, and schools.

[21] With the help of a student filmmaker he met on Craigslist, Coleman created a documentary entitled Glow,[22] and began a subsequent grassroots living room tour, traveling throughout Virginia homes for the next two years and taking donations until all $65,000 of the budget was raised.

[23] In 2006, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Coleman created a public school curriculum entitled "Healing Community: Helping Students Come to Terms with Tragedy, Loss, and Violence.

In observance of Governor Kaine's Month of the Grieving Child, Coleman produced a tour of student monologues relating to friendship and loss that was performed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

[29] Later that year, Samson Trinh (composer/saxophonist) took over as musical director and a jazz trio known as The Neon Man Band began to accompany Coleman on his tour.

"[32] In 2009, Coleman was invited to perform at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN[33] at which time Susan O'Connor, director of programs declared herself, "a real fan," of his work.

[36][37] Award-winning novelist Eliezer Sobel joined Coleman on stage for a duo version of "Chaidentity" which included a tour through synagogues in the mid-atlantic region.

[38] In 2012, Coleman signed with Jean V. Naggar agency and moved to New York City to begin work on his second PBS special about the rebirth of storytelling in the United States.

In February, Coleman's solo show "Big Plastic Heroes: The Last American Gladiator," opened in Portland, OR at The Sanctuary[40][41][42][43] and then moved to an Off-Off Broadway venue in New York City at UNDER St.

In 2013, Coleman’s memoir “The Bohemian Love Diaries” was published by Lyon’s Press and released later that year in Italy by Newton Compton under the title “L'amore ha la febbre alta.”[47] The stories from the book were crafted using the oral tradition and were first told on the National Storytelling Festival circuit.

[54] During this time, laughter yoga programs were established at Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center[55] and ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.

[59] The preliminary studies explore how variables such as optimism and joy are effected by purposeful laughter yoga exercises and how those changes may affect the neuroplasticity of the brain.