The million dollar question is why I’m starting this in the first place.

The short answer: to take back control.

So much of this life, this career, this industry as an actor is in other peoples’ hands; I’ve watched way too many actors sit back and wait to be given a job, and it’s (mostly) never panned out for them.

I want to start building something of my own now, while I’m still in the waiting room. To have something creatively stimulating, to lay the foundation, brick by brick. Sink my hands deep into the loam and get dirt under my fingernails.

The idea for The Actor Diaries sparked almost a year ago, after I’d spent the previous year working on “Strike Diaries:” a satirical “vlogumentary”-style web series I wrote, produced, and starred in during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. What was prompted from brainstorming how to expand Strike Diaries into a more encompassing trademark evolved into this space to leap, take a risk, share myself and my vulnerabilities and winding journey… and see what happens.

How exciting is that?

I’ve spent my life obsessively studying my favorite actors and creatives - inhaling each interview, podcast, editorial as gospel to find some secret passageway to the inner sanctum. Some well-hidden path to replicate for my own success. But for some of them, it’s been decades since they were in my shoes, pounding the pavement (if they ever did). This space is as much for myself as it is for anyone else who’s feeling lost and needs to hear from a fellow human currently walking the same path as them.

And as for all the lizard brain reasons I could play it safe and never publish this website: who cares, really? For every instinct that tells me to wipe every trace of myself from the internet, there’s another small voice that tells me something’s here. A home entirely of my own making.

I don’t know if anyone’s going to read this. But I hope you do. I hope you find something relatable or helpful or a simple nudge to take the smallest step forward.

We’ll see what shape this space takes. I think it could blossom into something beautiful. (Remember The TIG, anyone?)

Here’s to taking charge of my creative career and my life. I’m happy you’re here. I’m grateful to be in Los Angeles, living this life, chasing this path. What a gift.

Time to craft your purpose, live your narrative… and book a few acting jobs along the way.

(And if you want to learn a little more about me before we get started, click here.)