Why I Make

I make theater because I believe that the key to our survival lies in our togetherness, that the first step toward making a more peaceful world is fostering a sense of compassionate curiosity toward others and ourselves; because I believe that coming together to compare notes on our experience of the world is a natural and necessary human habit that helps us to remember what we are.

I believe theater lives in the exquisite tension between the impossibility of knowing and the pull to understand. Just as we cannot fathom death or infinite Space, it is impossible to ever completely know another’s experience—this is both devastating and endlessly redeeming: it means that the possibility for greater understanding is always infinite.

What I Make

I worked as a career actor in the Bay Area for about ten years. I also rode my bicycle across the country and did a writing project about it. Then I founded a Shakespeare Company called The Free Theater. Now I teach drama at Berkeley High School, write for my own amusement and well-being, clown around, and keep an untidy but magical garden. What’s next? Who knows…