Creative career began in theatre at age 16 as a performer in Civic Light Opera productions.

At age 21, produced, directed and designed a summer workshop production of the musical, Grease, using talent from the area high schools.

While attending college, facilitated teen theatre workshops and community theatre productions for the local Arts Council.

Senior directing project at California State University, Northridge was William Mastrosimone’s Extremities.

As career developed, gradually began focusing on design – over thirty LA area theatrical stage productions to date.

While working with Shari Lewis on her television series, was tasked with bringing Lamb Chop On Broadway to the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York.

Most prominent recent local work is the musical, Working, at the Colony Theatre which won the LA Stage Alliance (formerly TheatreLA) Ovation Award in 1994 for best Set Design.

A notable challenge was Identical Twins From Baltimore at the Tiffany Theatre starring Sheryl Lee Ralph. The madcap musical, about identical twins – a beautiful black woman and a not-so beautiful white woman (played by a man in drag) – who try to make it in New York and Los Angeles, required over a dozen scene changes including a Hollywood hot-tub party, a manhole for the actor to fall in, and a soundstage period epic film shoot – all on a small pie-shaped stage with no wing space. The pop-up book style with two small turntables proved to be extremely effective in keeping the story moving at a swift pace.

Continued to teach summer workshops at community colleges, designing Bye, Bye, Birdie! in Lichtenstein pop-art comic style and West Side Story utilizing a skeletal cityscape of scaffold structures that was choreographed to dance around the stage with the performers.