About

My career in show business goes back 50 years which began with running away with the circus and tending elephants. My work as a comedy juggler took me to the stages of Las Vegas in the early 80's and to appearances on nationally televised shows in six European countries. I saw a lot of the world performing on cruise ships.
To reinvent myself I built a tree house in the jungles of Hawaii and lived in for five years with no electricity. That was the spark to create LUMA a show about light that would be done in the dark. And for 25 years evolved the art but the story always remained the same. I am author, cartoonist, play system/toy inventor, speech writer, and life coach. Today I am traveling and speaking on Dark Skies, Astro-Tourism and the solution to the light pollution. I am develop manager for Lumican a manufacturer of the first 2200k street light. I am engaging with power companies and municipal governments to retrofit their communities to protect their dark skies.

Past Activities

2019 Key Note Speech on Astro Tourism for the Nebraska Tourism Board
2018
Sun Valley
TEDx Talk: "Embracing Darkness" How changing our relationship with light can impact the trajectory of climate change
Snowbird UT
IDA 30th AGM Plenary Speech: "How to engage the next generation in protecting the night sky"
Mesa AZ
LUMA: Art in Darkness performance Mesa Performance Arts Center. The new 2200k Lumican Dark Sky Friendly lights are installed.
Truckee CA: Talk on Dark Skies Talk presented by the past and now current mayor of the city.
2017
South Lake Tahoe: July 2 to August 15 performances at the Mont Bleu: LUMA: Art in Darkness
Sacramento CA Radio Interview Capital Public Radio on Dark Skies and the message behind Luma and Dark Skies
Truckee CA: Radio Interview about Dark Skies
2016 - 1998
LUMA tours to 15 countries on 5 continents at over 300 performing art centers in 45 states in the US. With a theme that our loss of darkness because of light cuts us off from the cosmos.