His body movements, actions, facial expressions and stage presence, are seemingly those of an cross between an over the top Jack Black and Kevin Kline. At age 17, about to enter UNC Chapel Hill, this diminutive young man has developed into an actor who lights up the stage whenever he steps before the footlights in his home state of North Carolina. The son of a father who is a physician and a mother who is both a cellist and an organist, he has grown in the past nine years from a member of the ensemble in "Annie," the musical, and Tootles, a "lost boy," in Peter Pan to an hilarious and very puckish Puck in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and the comical "Constable Dogberry" in the Bard's "Much Ado About Nothing." Year after year, he has been given lead roles such as "Oliver Twist" in the musical "Oliver," and the tongue tied Winthrop in the musical "Music Man," not to mention the many other roles he has mastered over the years, and the lead in two independent films. He has also become a master at recreating foreign dialects, as can be seen and heard in his Shakespearian roles. In 2007, as an outstanding High School student at the O'Neal School in Southern Pines, NC, with a 4.0+ average, he was awarded the prestigious Yale Book Award, and was the recipient of a leatherbound edition of the complete works of Shakespeare. No gift could have been more appropriate! But it doesn't stop there! He is also the Falcon school mascot at basketball games, is a member of the track team, and the Captain of the swim team. He is a force to be reckoned with! Of course, I,m not prejudiced. He's just my Grandson!

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