I'm an artist, educator, and creative collaborator with more than 15 years of experience helping people turn ideas into experiences, programs, and projects that matter. My work has taken me across the U.S. and around the world — from Philadelphia and Cincinnati to Kolkata and Rubona, Rwanda — always in collaboration with communities, and always guided by the belief that the process is just as important as the product.

At the heart of everything I do is a simple conviction: creativity brings people together, justice is something we practice, and community is where it all begins. As co-founder and Community Programs Director of the Inheritance Theater Project, I spent a decade building original, large-scale playmaking initiatives rooted in deep listening and collective storytelling. That work taught me what's possible when you give people the right conditions to create together.

Over the years that work has taken many forms — as an Arts Envoy with the U.S. Department of State in Croatia and India, as a teaching artist and administrator at institutions like Arena Stage and the National Civil Rights Museum, and as a facilitator working with students, elders, organizations, and governments across a genuinely wide range of communities and contexts. The through line has always been the same: deep listening, shared process, and a belief that everyone has a perspective worth hearing.

Along the way I've learned that meaningful work needs more than vision — it needs structure, care, and someone willing to hold the practical pieces together. Whether I'm in a rehearsal room, leading a workshop, or working behind the scenes to keep a project moving, I bring the same thing to every collaboration: genuine investment in the work, and in the people doing it.

Eventually, inspired by the idea of think global, act local, I came home to Philadelphia — the vibrant, complicated, beautiful city that raised me — to invest that same energy here. I live in South Philadelphia with my wife and our dog, only a few blocks from where my great-grandparents first settled when they arrived from Russia.

When I'm not working you can often find me singing with strangers at a piano bar, dancing in my kitchen, or in the middle of any number of craft projects.