BIO/RESUME

 After spending several years as a 7th grade public school teacher, I decided I was ready to pursue my dream of "doing anything else." Lucky for me, that something else was comedy. Its been said that I deliver edgy, hard-nosed comedy with a laid-back swagger and a giant smile. 
     People always ask why I chose to become a comic and its because the great ones are brilliant, no different than a Nobel Prize winning physicist or a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.  They not only trick people into listening to taboo subjects but make them laugh at them.  Race, abortion, homosexuality, gender politics; all issues used by the powers that be to divide people and drive a wedge through the common man are made light of by the great ones.  The ability to speak to people and have them listen and maybe even change the ideologies to which they once held dear is amazing to me and I think it always will be. 
     My various experiences from graduate school to working as a middle school teacher allow me to touch on topics that almost all can relate to.  From my childhood in Cleveland to the current state of politics, I attempt to tackle each issue from a different angle and allow the audience to walk in my shoes, even if its one comedy set at a time. 

•National Tour with Jim Norton 2008
• “MTV’s MVP’s” 2008 
• Last Comic Standing Season 6 
• Comedy Central's Friday Night Stand-Up 2008 
• National Burger King commercial 
• Comedy Central’s “The Root of All Evil w/ Lewis Black”. (Topic Facebook) 
• Comedy Central’s “address the mess.com” Spokesman Jan. 2008 
• Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham” Season 2. May 2007 
• Comedy Central’s Fresh Face of Comedy 2007 
• NBC’s Last Comic Standing Season 4
• Finals appearance in the 2007 Boston Comedy Festival.
• 2006 Boston Comedy Festival 
• Finalist in NBC's Stand-Up for Diversity contest
• Airtime on XM Radio Comedy Channel 150
• Winner of the 2006 National Carnival Cruise Line Comedy Challenge
• HBO Las Vegas Comedy Festival's "Lucky 21" new faces showcase 2006
• Maxim Magazine "Real Men of Comedy" contest winner 2006