A Few Fun Facts
- I'm currently living in Moscow with a lovely Russian woman named Mila.
- I won 20 awards for my 8 antiwar comedy short films.
- I fell into acting by accident when I was 45, after a career in scientific book publishing.
- I had lead roles in 3 Off-Off-Broadway plays, and acted in 150 indie and student films—including 75 for USC—over an 8-year period.
- I've studied 10 languages, and am conversational in several.
- I was able to speak conversational Russian after just a few months of study. I now know several thousand words.
- I adapted an award-winning British novel into a screenplay.
- I lived in Mexico for 3 years.
- I shot 25 short films—all but one of which were comedies.
- My grandchildren are Japanese and live in Japan.
- I began doing parkour at age 65.
- I was born with a caul. This happens in 1 of 80,000 births, and the nuns at the hospital made a big deal of it.
- A young Russian woman I met in India in 2023 invited me to visit her in Petrozavodsk, near Finland. This eventually led to me meeting Mila, in a language exchange online.
- I wrote an "as told to" screenplay of a medic in the Iraq War.
- I taught a comedy acting class in Tokyo in English and Japanese.
- Since March 2023 I've lived in Japan, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and now Russia.
- I taught beginner parkour in Da Nang, Vietnam.
- I plan to return to the USA, with Mila, in 2027.
