[1] Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is a beatboxer-instrumentalist, playwright-performer, and urban circus artist.
[2] He is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Islamic and Judaic religious studies.
He also studied at the Berklee School of Music and with the Chasidic folklorist and archivist Fishel Bresler.
[5] In 2007 he was awarded a $50,000 Gerbode Emerging Playwright's Grant[6] for Track in a Box, a hip hop and circus based play about junkie police, strippers and giant puppets which was set to premiere in Fall 2009.
A former line-producer for the Burning Man Arts Festival, and a member of the Hybrid Project at San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts, he has been a guest artist and lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London), Stanford University, RISD, and Oberlin College; a featured speaker at The American Press Institute; and a beatboxing instructor in San Francisco juvenile detention facilities.