I’m a writer and stand-up comedian living in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn where I work on new and exciting ways to affect the world through laughter. And I play a lot of Boggle.

My Back Story

I am not Italian. I’m Welsh, like Tom Jones. I hail from Madison, New Jersey where my father, an elementary school gym teacher, imparted sparse life lessons via dodgeball. The rest I learned from Three’s Company. In high school I was elected class clown (it was a landslide). I attended the University of Delaware where I studied film, fronted a cover band called Snackplate and hurdled things for the track team. After graduating, I u-hauled it to Boulder, Colorado where I studied improv, played piano in a Phish-ish jam band called The Buzzz (3 z’s) and somehow ably DJed parties with my limited collection of Yes, Night Ranger and Hall and Oates albums. In 1999, I began telling jokes on stage in New York City. After years of TV appearances on NBC, Comedy Central, VH1, etc., club gigs, cruises, colleges, festivals and tours from Vegas to Amsterdam as well as warm-up jobs for the Daily Show and Colbert Report among others, I decided to dial it down and focus on my writing as a means of stabilizing daytime hours and strengthening my stage act. So I started a blog and enrolled in a copywriting course at the School of Visual Arts.

My Front Story

The summer of 2007, I landed an internship with Wieden and Kennedy in Portland, Oregon where I wrote my first TV and print ads for NIKE. While in the Pacific Northwest, I booked Bumbershoot in Seattle opening six shows for Janeane Garofalo. Six months later, a few weeks into my first full-time job as a copywriter for Kirshenbaum, Bond and Partners in NYC, I taped my debut stand-up appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The focus thing was working- writing began to fuel my stand-up and vice versa. At KBP, I went on to create “3conomics” for Wendy’s, which became their Value Menu campaign during the early days of the recession, and was awarded a Golden Bagel by the agency for Campaign of the Year. Soon after, I was featured prominently in New York Magazine as one of “Ten New Comedians that Funny People Find Funny.” That Fall, after “leaving” KB where I had penned over 20 TV and radio spots for Wendy’s, most of them airing nationally, I jumped into a Hybrid car for a month and drove cross-country, writing and producing a Ford Motor Company sponsored comedy project for J. Walter Thompson. Since I’ve had stints writing freelance for Euro RSCG and Grey.

And here I am.

RESUME | ADVERTISING

JWT LA, October 2009  freelance producer, writer- Ford Motor Co.
Kirshenbaum, Bond & Partners, March 2008 – Sept 2009  copywriter  Wendy’s, Mohegan Sun, Panasonic, Diagio, BMW
Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, June – Oct 2007  intern copywriter for NIKE, COKE; producer LaughBox, WK’s first stand-up comedy showcase
Lowe NY, 2005 freelance copywriter, Degree Deodorant
VH1, Nov 2004 freelance promo writer

RESUME | COMEDY

Television

Late Night with Conan O’Brien, NBC – stand-up, actor
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC – actor, audience warm-up
Late Friday, NBC – stand-up
Last Comic Standing, NBC – season one finalist
Premium Blend, Comedy Central – stand-up
Jump Cuts, Comedy Central – actor
The Daily Show, Comedy Central – audience warm-up
Colbert Report, audience warm-up
Important Things with Demetri Martin, Comedy Central – warm-up
Best Week Ever, VH1 – talking head
100 Funniest/Scariest Movies, Bravo – talking head
Cheap Seats, ESPN – actor

Writing

The Onion, guest writer
Time Out New York, contributing writer
CollegeHumor.com, contributing writer
Stereogum, contributing writer
Thrillist.com, contributing writer
The Wrong Coast, AMC freelance writer

Festivals/Tours

Charleston Comedy Festival 2010
Bumbershoot, Seattle 2007
Vancouver Comedy Festival 2006
Nobodies of Comedy Tour 2005/2006
Montreal ‘Just for Laughs’ Comedy Festival 2005
College Humor Short Bus Tour 2005
Toyota Comedy Festival, NYC 2001

Kudos

1^st Runner-up Best Male Comic, Emerging Comics of NY 2003
1^st Runner-up, Comedy Central’s Laugh Riots semifinals 2000
1^st Runner-up Son, Baldo Family Awards 1982

Education

SVA, NY 2007
University of Delaware, BA English/film
University of Colorado, Boulder, postgrad creative writing
Writer’s Boot Camp NYC, sitcom writing
Upright Citizens Brigade NYC, improv

Other Skills