I was born and raised in the woods of Locust Hill, VA. Encouraged by my parents to engage nearly everything drawing, painting, poetry, science, sports, philosophy, I had a pretty free and renaissance childhood. As I explored all this I found God in my teens. Then I went to college at Johns Hopkins University in September 1997 to get ready for revolutionizing education by building advanced learning software. That didn't happen. Instead I got involved in the labor rights movement of the late 90's. I graduated from Hopkins in 2001, and accidentally started a career writing code for the government. After more than a year of building software I didn't really care about, I joined the Marine Corps Reserves to get some intense training, kinda like Hopkins, but way different. After basic training, I resumed my boring career in software development for government contractors. At that point the only thing keeping me alive emotionally was a great circle of friends born from CrossCurrent Ministries. It was performing sketches onstage at CrossCurrent where I realized that acting was the most fun thing I do all week. At the beginning of 2005 I was preparing for a year of missions work overseas to start in 2006. On April 5, 2005 I got fired from last government contracting job, and hence I got to start my year of missions work way early. Thank God! May 29th, I left for Orlando, where I interned with YWAM Orlando Mission Adventures training youth groups from various churches on how to do short mission trips. I had a lot of fun teaching them dramas and performing dramas myself with a whole lot of cool people from all over country and Canada. In October 2005, I started volunteering for YWAM Virginia in Richmond, VA and had an awesome time teaching missionaries there internet skills and learning Portuguese from the Brazilian staff there. In February 2006, I came out to Los Angeles to take a 4 week Acting for Film program at NYFA. I met so many cool people and enjoyed my classes so much I decided to stay in LA.

From June 2005 to June 2006 has been one of the best years of my life.