Studied theater at Northwestern and screenwriting at NYU, in addition to listed credits did uncredited polishes for various TV and movies including My Girl (1991) with Dan Aykroyd & Macaulay Culkin and Disney's animated Runaway Brain (1995). For the stage, wrote book for an original musical called "Complications" for director Herbert Ross, which work-shopped at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York and later ran at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles, called "The Gift" starring Alicia Witt and under Andy Fickman's direction.