I live in beautiful Vancouver, BC, the jewel of the West Coast. I’m a big movie fan with a preference for quirky comedy, older classics, foreign films and yes, the occasional Hollywood blockbuster. (Heavenly Creatures is a particular favourite and I still maintain my website about this amazing film.)

I enjoy creative and visual arts, and am fond of computers, so my line of work as graphic and web designer is a natural choice.

I am quite the retrophile, with a high regard for anything from the 50’s and 60’s. I maintain a hefty record collection and especially love the sounds of the jazz crooners I grew up listening to – like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. But I also love pop, new wave and – yes – disco. Thrift and vintage stores like Value Village, Mod to Modern or My Orange Bag are always a good place to find me, looking for groovy and/or useless old stuff to further encrust my place with. And I am not sure if I should be proud or ashamed of this, but I have a working 8-track and sort-of-working Beta VCR. Yes, old formats never die, they just end up at my place!

I can play piano by ear fairly well, but my current musical endeavour is to learn the clarinet. It’s coming along but I’m not ready for a public demonstration just yet.

I release my inner ham by singing in the Broadway Chorus, a community choral group that mounts an annual musical revue in June (as well as a smaller December show). Our audiences are growing – a few years ago we graduated from the cozy confines of North Vancouver’s Presentation House Gallery to the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island!

My experience with the Broadway Chorus emboldened me to further explore the world of theatre, which led to my first stage role in 2002 as the comic villain Ebenezer Humbug in a community theatre production entitled “The Plight Before Christmas”. Spring of 2006 found me with an agent for film and TV work, heading out on auditions. Can the Tony, Emmy and Oscar be far behind? I’m keeping some space clear on my mantlepiece.