Professional journalist for over 25 years. I've been pigeonholed as a New Haven-centric arts reporter, but have proven myself as a reliable writer in a number of other fields as well.I deliberately sought out a more creative and opinionated form of journalism—alternative weeklies—because of the variety it offered, but successfully expanded into mainstream trade publications, journals and even some legal and government document-writing.I'm best known as a theater critic, but have also written regularly on popular music, dance, visual art, literature, film and comic books. Outside of the arts, I've penned an about-town column, political endorsements, hard news, tourist guides, sports profiles and a vast array of other assignments. Since leaving full-time journalism to become a freelancing stay-at-home dad in 2007, I've been a columnist or regular feature writer for a number of community-oriented publications, such as New Haven Living and Hartford Decades magazines and was the first "head writer" at the Daily Nutmeg website. When the New Haven Advocate (the alt-weekly for which I wrote for over 20 years) morphed into the arts publication CTNow in 2013, I continued that association and also started placing theater stories regularly in the Hartford Courant.In my spare time, I've been working on some fiction and non-fiction projects. I also find time to help friends with press releases, speechwriting, reports, script revisions and general editing. In 2012 I got involved in local politics, as a Democratic Town Committee Co-Chair in New Haven's Ward 2. I also served on the State of Connecticut arts council and the City of New Haven Cultural Affairs Commission. These positions engaged me in a whole other type of writing: campaign literature, revising of by-laws...I find the mix of assignments immensely satisfying.