From: Corning, New York. LA Opera: Il Trovatore (2021, debut) and numerous subsequent productions including the 2023/24 season's Don Giovanni, Highway 1, USA, La Traviata and Turandot.

His work has been seen on stages around the world, with productions including Armida at the Metropolitan Opera, SAFE at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, West Side Story at the Kilden Teater (Norway), A Little Night Music at the Huntington Theatre Company, Cold Mountain at Music Academy of the West, and productions of Carmen, Don Giovanni, I Puritani and Greek at the Boston Lyric Opera. 

New York credits include Forever Dusty for New World Stages, Pinocchio's Ashes for Theater for a New City and The Saint of Bleecker Street at Dicapo Opera Theatre, among others, and he has worked at numerous regional opera and theater companies around the country. 

As resident fight director for Central City Opera, he staged numerous productions there between 2008 and 2014, including Dead Man Walking, Carmen, Madama Butterfly, West Side Story, Oklahoma! and Rinaldo, while also serving as the stage combat instructor for the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program.