Was a 2001 presidential scholar at the Interlochen Center for the Arts
Left Juilliard to make his Broadway debut (as Tom Sawyer) in a 2003 revival of Big River, beginning a stage career that also included The Times They Are A-Changin' (Twyla Tharp's 2006 musical celebration of Bob Dylan's music) and a 2010 London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love
Wrote the score for the 2004 off-Broadway musical Easter Rising; was the assistant director of a 2008 Broadway adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities