He holds an M.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of specific study and interest include Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, William Blake, John Keats, Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde. He has also lectured on leit motifs in opera composer Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Niebelung at Arizona Opera and at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. For most of his adult life he worked in the film and television industry, in New York and Los Angeles – first as an Assistant Director and then as a Producer. He produced several movies for television, as well as three seasons of the television series Nip/Tuck. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America.