Where healing meets artistry.
Sometimes the chapters we'd rather forget become the doorway to the most honest work we've ever done. My coaching exists at the intersection of emotional intelligence and imagination — not as a tagline, but as the result of decades as a working actor and years walking beside people through real recovery.
“Built by an actor, for actors.”
I trained at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles — studying with teachers like Joanne Linville and Arthur Mendoza — and I've spent decades as a working SAG-AFTRA actor on stage and screen. I know the audition anxiety, the self-doubt, the pressure to conform, and the hunger to make something true. That's not theory for me. It's the trenches.
Along the way I founded the Warrior Theatre Project, a nonprofit that uses theatre to help survivors of childhood trauma, and I spent years as a volunteer recovery coach. I watched how much talent gets trapped behind fear and old patterns — and how the industry too often asks actors to break themselves open to get to the truth.
There's a better way. You can reach the deepest, most honest places in your work without re-living your wounds — with emotional intelligence, imagination, and a technique you can trust. That conviction became my method. The most memorable actors aren't the ones who perfectly copied someone else's approach. They're the ones who discovered and developed their own voice. My job is to help you find yours.
Experience, science & imagination
Experience
Decades of professional acting — the auditions, the rejection, the craft. Real-world understanding brought to every session, not borrowed from a textbook.
Science
Neuroscience and emotional intelligence woven into the work, so you build range and resilience the way your brain actually learns — safely and sustainably.
Imagination
Imagination is a neurological process. Combined with your emotional intelligence, it unlocks authentic, repeatable performance that technique alone can never teach.
Selected Work
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
- Star Trek: Voyager (Paramount)
- National Xfinity campaign
- Door to the Other Side — lead
- Pacific Resident Theatre — company member
- Warrior Theatre Project — founder
Training & Craft
- Stella Adler Academy of Acting
- Studied with Joanne Linville
- Studied with Arthur Mendoza
- Studied with Marilyn Fox — Artistic Director, Pacific Resident Theatre
- Stanislavsky & Adler foundations
- Michael Chekhov technique
- Emotional intelligence & neuroscience
I take the techniques I learned from remarkable teachers and put them together in a way that works — and then help you build the way that works for you.