In 2011, he was nominated for Best Actor for the Watermark Films short, Proposal, at the Visionfest film festival in New York City, the only actor from a short film in that category. He would go on to star in Happiness, which took several awards in 2013 at the same festival including Best Short.An accomplished stage actor from Northern California, he has created roles in several world premieres including the role of Lt. Col. Jack Hackett in Mark Medoff's(Children of a Lesser God)Gunfighter: A Gulf War Chronicle and the role of Edgar Alan Poe in Gary Wright's Evermore.