“Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!”

— Peter Von Berg, actor/director on “It’s All Greek to Me.”

I think what initially attracted me to the theater were the philosophical ideas stated or embedded in the plays, along with the general sense of life itself being like a play, in that we choose to act with a certain persona, and that everyday life is actually a performance with motivations hidden even to oneself. . .

As this web site will attempt to show, the work I’ve done as a writer, director and performer all inform one another. I’m considered a somewhat virtuosic whistler, having carried that instrument with me always and practice with it every day. I mention this because it is the underlying music of language and movement that make for great theater.

For years I asked myself, “What is art?” Not what is good or bad art, but just what is it? I mean all the arts — writing, theater, dance, music, the visual arts, whatever. And I finally came up with this answer: “Art is a piece of consciousness made perceptible.” This definition makes sense to me, because consciousness is what we all share and can never get outside of, and what everything is made of and can never be destroyed.