I am an alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and have, over the past 40+ years, acted and/or sung, directed, played and/or written hundreds of performances. I studied acting at the University of Houston, under Cecil Pickett and Sidney Berger and stage movement & fencing with Claude Caux. I spent a summer with a small theater group in the Midwest, developing new plays with playwrights, including Robert Patrick and Stephen Nelson. I then moved to California to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. From 1983 to 1986 I served in the U.S. Navy and, after an honorable discharge, earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Doctorate in Jurisprudence, both from the University of Houston.