His short fiction has appeared in many journals, including Lullwater Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Wisconsin Review, RiverSedge, Limestone, The Nassau Review, The Distillery, The Dirty Goat, The Chariton Review, Buffalo Carp: Quad Cities Arts Journal, Soundings East, Queer Ramblings Magazine, Argestes, and Lynx Eye and elsewhere.
His first play, The Session--a finalist in the Strawberry One-Act Festival Winter 2005 at the Bernie West Theater in Manhattan--was nominated for the Pushcart Prize (after being published in The Distillery, January 2007). His second play, The Dakota, received a Best Short Play Award at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival 2005 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in June 2005 and was presented at Octoberfest 2005 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Other short plays include The Next Move (winner 2010 One-Act Play Competition, Brevard Little Theatre, Brevard, NC; staged reading at Octoberfest 2006 at EST) and Museum Piece (presented at the New Works Festival at the North CantonPlayhouse, May 2011, and at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival at the Theatre for a New City, April 2010).
His full-length plays include Couple of the Century (Downtown Urban Theater Festival 2008, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York; semifinalist, the Open Book's 8th National Readers Theatre Playwriting Competition), The Best Place We’ve Ever Lived (workshopped at the Penobscot Theatre Company’s 3rd Annual New Play Festival: Northern Writes 2009), The German Lesson (presented at the 2010 Great Plains Theatre Conference Playlabs in Omaha, NE, June 2010; runner-up for the 2008 Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwrighting Excellence), All in the Faculty (published by Dramatists Play Service, 2010; presented in a reading at the Turtle Shell Theater, New York, 2009), The Last Nights of the Sunshine SAGE Club (housed in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Archives at Ohio State University), Unspeakable Table Manners (runner-up as Table Manners, 2011 New Works Project, T. Schreiber Studio), and others.
A graduate of Yale University (BA, magna cum laude) and Northwestern University (MA, PhD), he is also the author of the book, A Hegelian Account of Contemporary Art and several articles on philosophy and aesthetics. He began his professional life as a professor of philosophy and aesthetics, teaching at Hobart & William Smith Colleges and Northwestern University. He has twice been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities: at Brown University (Semiotics) and New York University (Business).
After leaving academia, he held a variety of marketing, communication, and strategic planning positions at Time Magazine, HBO, CBS, and Showtime Networks. A resident of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he lives with his partner, he is also a pianist, photographer, urban gardener, meditator, and the proud father of two daughters.
