Eugene's first T.V. appearances were as a child actor on PBS Kids' Reading Rainbow with Levar Burton. He appeared in PBS's live airing of Puccini's "La Boheme" With The New York City Opera at Lincoln Center that won an Emmy award for "Outstanding Cultural Music-Dance Program." He attended Stuyvesant High School and Dartmouth College. And after graduation, moved back to New York City, where he trained and performed in the off-Broadway NY theater scene as well as the Upright Citizen's Brigade. Eugene was one of 14 actors from across the east coast chosen for the 2014 ABC-Disney Diversity Talent Showcase in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles in 2014.