For starters, it's pronounced "Fry"...

Education:  A degree in Theater Design from the University of Kansas in Lawrence. 

Theatrical Career & Training:  During my early career I was based in Kansas City, Missouri working as Assistant Set Designer to R. Keith Brumley at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.  It was there that I learned both how to design for the professional stage and how to follow a real world show through from concept to opening night.  Keith and I would spend the winters walled-up in the studio in Kansas City overseeing the Lyric's season and designing six or eight summer shows for reparatory opera companies across the country.  Later, during the summer months, we would split forces with Keith opening shows in one state while I supervised scenery load-ins in another.  It was invaluable experience.

Film & Television Career:  In the mid 90's I moved to Los Angeles.  Knowing very few people when I arrived, my first projects were stage related.  Soon my work was noticed by some of the Art Directors and Production Designers at ABC Television and I began to make in-roads into the Film and Television community of Hollywood.  My first feature film "BLADE" got me into the Set Designer's Guild (Local 847) and my very next project returned me to ABC studios as an Assistant Art Director on the daytime series "General Hospital."  This afforded me membership in the Art Director's Guild (Local 876 ... now Local 800).

During the intervening years I have been fortunate to have had mentors of the highest caliber:  Rene Lagler, Roy Christopher, Craig Sterns, Tom Reta, Greg Papalia, Jack DeGovia, Randy Moore, Ed Vereaux, Kirk Petruccelli and many others... all of these men were, and continue to be, instrumental in forming and guiding my understanding of Film and Television Design and the management issues of running a Hollywood Art Department. 

But there is more...

I've traveled across Europe and Asia. I've motorcycled the length and breadth of the United States.  I love hiking and mountain climbing, cycling and skiing and of course, being a Californian, surfing!  I have a long list of useless skills that include juggling, tight-rope walking, unicycle riding, and the ability to climb a "Jacob's ladder."  I love writing, I love telling stories and I've eaten some of the strangest things on the planet!  (...ask me about those travels in Asia sometime!...)