A former dancer with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Fort Worth Ballet, and Ballet Austin, he has directed and choreographed over two dozen plays and musicals, including Rent, Seussical, Pippin, Wonderful Town, The Mikado, Into the Woods, Hair, and Six Degrees of Separation. September 2008 he directed / choreographed Sondheim’s Company in Vladivostok, Russia, under the auspices of the U.S. State Department Cultural Envoy program and was selected to be a 2009-10 Fulbright Lecturer at Waseda University and Kyoritsu Women’s University in Tokyo.