“I'm a NYC-based acting coach, Meisner-trained teacher, and MFA/BFA audition coach.”

I love actors. I love exploring with them, discovering with them, learning through the mess and the magic. (P.S. The mess is the magic.) Nurturing their talent. Building ensembles. Being in the room to witness a breakthrough, a moment of quiet courage, a wild leap, that's the highlight of my life.

I was trained to teach at The Neighborhood Playhouse by Sanford Meisner's successor, Richard Pinter, who called me "the next generation of acting teacher to carry Meisner's technique." I studied at The William Esper Studio, and went on to earn my MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College, training in an intensive conservatory-style program led by nationally recognized theater artists.

I currently serve as a part-time Assistant Professor at The New School, where I've taught for over a decade, and I teach acting at Manhattan's Professional Performing Arts School, a high school for working professionals in the industry.

For 11 years, I taught in the BFA Acting Program at Brooklyn College. For ten years, I chaired the Acting Program at The School of Cinema and Performing Arts. From 2008 to 2014, I was a recurring guest lecturer at Stanford University, working with MBA and PhD students on presence, collaboration, and public speaking.

I've coached actors on Broadway, television, and major motion pictures, and I have a proven track record of helping students gain admission to top-tier MFA and BFA programs, as well as New York City's most competitive performing arts high schools.

Beyond the studio, I work internationally as a consultant, designing play-based learning experiences that build empathy, joy, and belonging in educational and corporate settings alike. My TEDx talk, Play Your Way to Joy, explores the importance of teaching joy in higher education through the lens of play.

I'm also co-author of Turn That Thing Off: Collaboration and Technology in 21st Century Actor Training (Routledge Press), which investigates the impact of excessive screen use on presence, collaboration, and the actor's instrument.

As a performer, my roles include Trigorin in Chekhov's The Seagull, the title role in Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Valmont in Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses. I'm a founding member of Adjusted Realists, a NYC-based theatre company telling theatrical stories about slightly unhinged worlds. My performances as Todd in Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls and Tom in Paul Kruse's Chickens in the Yard received glowing press.

I directed Brooklyn College's BFA Acting Showcase for several consecutive years, along with numerous mainstage productions at Manhattan's Professional Performing Arts High School. I'm especially proud of directing a benefit production of Diana Son's Stop Kiss, with proceeds going to The Trevor Project, and an opening night talkback with co-founder Celeste Lecesne.