“I’m the best kind of actor. I don’t act.”

I’ve spent decades studying what makes acting alive, and impart that understanding to talented actors. I’ve studied with renowned teachers. I’ve worked as an actor. I’ve spent the past eleven years working with actors, helping them discover greater freedom, spontaneity and truth in their work.

For more than twenty years, I taught sold-out workshops with my wife, Michelle, helping actors, writers, directors, casting directors and other creative professionals get out of their own way, experience greater success and live with a greater sense of well-being. The work began as Acting Success Now and became Inside Game: Go In and You Win! Michelle and I were also invited to speak at SAG-AFTRA as special guests for a number of years.

For the past eleven years, I’ve taught and continue to teach a pioneering approach to acting called The Art of Not Acting. Along the way, I’ve coached actors for specific projects, including Bob Wisdom in Dark Wolf. All of this work has kept me immersed in the experience of what makes acting alive.

For nearly four decades, my life took me in other directions. I never stopped being an actor. I simply wasn’t acting.

I’ve been through some extraordinary good times and some extraordinary challenges, including experiences most people never encounter. Those challenges, along with a forty-four-year journey into Eastern truth, have given me a depth of understanding of the human animal that I’ve rarely encountered anywhere.

It’s now second nature for me to read a film, television, or stage script and see all aspects of it, from structure to soul. This, along with years of life experience, has brought me to a depth of understanding humanity, its contradictions, complexities, beauty and darkness, in ways I could never have imagined.

Now I’m bringing everything I’ve lived, studied and imparted to actors back into my own work. That understanding now comes into the work, and into the actor I am today.