In 1977 my Father took me to see Star Wars in the theater and I was forever changed, my fascination with motion pictures forged. I also learned at a very young age that I loved to draw and act, spending summers in classes at the Kalamazoo Art Center and the Kalamazoo Civic Theater’s robust youth program where I found my second home and most of my current best friends.

In my teens I added photography and darkroom enlarging to the mix. I was also exposed to white water canoe tripping at a Canadian summer camp in this era and another key lifelong passion entered my world - forevermore happiest being outdoors and championing environmental causes.

At the University of Michigan I was blindsided by the opportunity to study Film/Video - overjoyed with the presence of all my artistic passions in one medium and adding a brand new art to the mix, editing. With a B.A. in hand I fled to Austin, Texas where I soon found the production office of Richard Linklater’s The Newton Boys and my career was underway.

Five years later, with experience on a dozen feature-films, I moved back to my home state to produce Michigan-based projects. In 2003 I was awarded an Irving S. Gilmore Emerging Artist Grant to make an experimental documentary about the Kalamazoo River and its connection with the city and founded Boiling Water Productions LLC to produce Kalamazoo, River: US.