CURRENT MISSION

To forge feeling into form, with words, words, words.

ABOUT ME

After a career as actor / producer / playwright, touring with my small company, teaching drama in a private school, raising children, I'm free! I've already checked one dream trip off the list, van-camping through Central America, but the list is long and continually revised. The writing projects I'm working with are adventures too.

PHILOSOPHY

Lighten up! I believe we can always help each other recover from a very fearful culture.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

As a touring performer I've met neat people who have offered couches in Alaska, British Columbia, and throughout the U.S. I've also enjoyed the company of travelers and gracious hosts in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. You never know if you'll end up helping with a wedding, shoveling snow off a roof, or sleeping in a macadamia orchard, or...

Interests

Theater, Books, Film, Poetry, Salsa, Swing, Tango, Aikido, Running, Biking, Hiking, Skiing.

• culture
• writing
• books
• poetry
• theater
• acting
• tango
• running
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• skiing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

"Amelie", or the hard-to-watch films of Herzog and Haneke. Nabokov, Shakespeare, Anne Sexton, William Blake, Nietzsche. Jim Harrison.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Standing for four hours in the back of the National Theatre in London watching Olivier in Long Day's Journey. Chartres Cathedral. The Canadian Rockies. The high country of Guatemala.

Teach, Learn, Share

As a lifelong teacher, I can always run little workshops on Improvisation, Aikido, Public Speaking, how to face 'audiences' of any kind, with poetry, toasts, rants, or...?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belize, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Nicaragua, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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