Most of my artistic life has been spent creating performances in service of the spontaneous moments that happen in live spaces. For many years, my medium was devised theater, often made with ensembles of interdisciplinary artists, in non-traditional venues. This process eventually led me down various paths of producing, teaching, designing, and collaborating. I have been omnivorous, as many Cleveland artists are, finding inspiration in the hybrid spaces between performance, visual art, and game design. My tools have been humor, horror, reverence, profanity, and mystery.

I believe that collaboration is key to making better art and better artists with the second being more important. As a creator and leader at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, my focus has been bringing artists together in various formats so that they can share, learn, and grow in their crafts while also being replenished. I believe the greatest dangers facing the arts are isolation and atomization. My responsibility as a collaborative artist is to make work that strengths the local artistic community and supports its growth.

No matter the method, the goal has always been to make a single moment stand out from all the others, and in doing so, endowing the rest with value and meaning; a group of people, strangers, sharing the same moment, freed from distraction, unmediated and aware. In those encounters lie the chance to instill insight, empathy and the imagination to redefine reality. It is a palpable hallucination we are creating, but one that holds the promise of actual change.