Hailing from the Nor CAL and a native of the golden state, via a cool dozen years in San Francisco where he majored in Performance Studies at SFSU and was a switchboard operator for San Francisco Sex Information. Nails has studied with theater and performance artists Mary Overlie, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Tim Miller, and beat poets B.L. Kennedy and Brett Bevell. Nails blends these influences into neuro-romanticism, a pastiche skirting the edges of comedy, physical theater and spoken raw human emotion. Now certified through UCLA’s Center for Arts & Healing, Nails brings Social and Emotional Arts & healing practices to his investigation of performance.