While attending high school in Fargo, ND, studied acting across the border in Moorhead, MN, at the Trollwood Performing Arts School from 1993 to '97; performed in stage productions of Romeo and Juliet, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
In 2011, returned to Trollwood to teach summer acting classes in improvisation and scene study
Played guitar with Los Angeles band Killola
Replaced Mos Def as Dougie in HBO's Enlightened when the rapper-actor and the network could not agree on a contract