After acting, theater production and stand-up comedy in NY and LA, I moved to Seattle and got a job at Microsoft. Corporate America was not for me so I left and started managing web projects and writing content on a freelance basis. That grew into an interactive agency that was sold after 12 awesome years.  

I’m on to freelance writing now, and split my time between Los Angeles, CA and Bozeman, MT, depending on work and weather.

Here are some random things about me in no particular order.

  1. I was part of a team that won a Silver Sabre award in social marketing for Xbox work that Forbes called “The Future of Television.”

  2. My stand-up comedy show, Essential Sexy, was performed to sellout crowds and is available on DVD. (That was obviously a very long time ago!)

  3. I’ve done user experience, marketing and content strategy work for clients like Google, Starbucks BMW, The Gates Foundation, AT&T, Amazon, Disney and others.

  4. I made a pretty good living doing TV commercials.

  5. I sold my business to the largest advertising agency conglomerate in the world.

  6. I founded the LA Theatre Project, producing a John Patrick Shanley play that prompted Variety to write, “The play is challenging in its many levels and this company is certainly up to the challenge.”

  7. My team and I created a 6-episode web series for Microsoft; it was like Real World except everyone lived apart and used Instant Messaging. This was before YouTube and iPhones were invented.

  8. I learned to speak Japanese with my mom and her friends in the kitchen so I can gossip about who’s getting married and what college people are going to but I can’t understand the television.

  9. I’ve lately been re-creating the Japanese food of my youth.

  10. I was in a terrible play in a 25-seat theatre with Jack Black.

  11. I was the host of the Buns of Steel Power Yoga Workout. I was in much better shape back then.

  12. I’m married to a former fish monger.

  13. I love the Arts District (where I live) in downtown LA, and if you would have ever told me that I would like a place like Montana, I would have called you crazy. Not any more… it’s spectacular!