In Chicago directed Live Bait Theater's world premiere of the John Susman play "Nelson & Simone" about the affair between Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir. Gary Houston played Algren and Rebecca Covey played Beauvoir. Fred Wellisch played Jean-Paul Sartre.
He was nominated for a 2006 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Buried Child" at the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
