A former dancer and choreographer, he studied dance with Peggy Lawler at Cornell University from which he graduated with a degree in Economics in 1969. He worked in New York City with Rudy Perez, the Merry-Go-Rounders and John Butler in the NET Opera The Nightengale before returning to Ithaca in 1971 to teach dance at Cornell and start the Ithaca Dancemakers with some friends. He moved to Boston in 1975 and opened Studio 205 where he taught and choreographed. He free-lanced with just about every choreographer in Boston, most notably Dance Collective, In 1980, he received a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Choreographic Fellowship and began lighting for the dance companies that he had danced with.
He was the Production Manager/Lighting Designer/StageManager for Boston dance companies Dance Collective, Concert Dance Company, Ramon de los Reyes, Danny Sloan and Dancers. He designed Lights for Beth Soll, Cambridge School of Weston, Bridgewater State College, Walnut Hill School, Julie Ince Thompson, Jo Ha Kyu, Pooh Kaye, Mary Barnett and Peter DiMuro. He worked worked as Production Manager for Dance Umbrella of Boston and Technical Director of First Night, Boston, the Opening of the Orange Line Celebration, Tower Auditorium at Mass College of Art, Spring Revels and Dance/New England '81. He was lighting director for Tod Machover's Brain Opera at the Media Lab at MIT which went to the Ars Electronic Festival in Linz, Austria, and also to Denmark, Tokyo, West Palm Beach, Disney World, Sao Paulo and Lisbon. He also designed for World Music, Celebrity Series, Boston Camerata and Boston Theater of the Deaf.
He helped found the Boston Aliance of Theatre Artisans and maintained the interactive database on the Internet.
He created the video projections for Dawn Kramer's Theater Dance pieces, "If I were you…", Cracking, Entanglement and Secret Laughs. He continues to work as cameraman and editor for her single channel work such as 1945 and 2025