My acting career involved extensive performance in New York, regional, and touring companies. I played leading roles in musical, classical, and contemporary theater, and my work also included musical direction and translation. I am a member of Actors' Equity Association, the professional stage actor's union.

I have also pursued a parallel career in technology, most recently involving my position as President of Flat Dog Productions, Inc., a small company that provided technical consulting services and developed software for the digital print production studios of a premier advertising agency.

Other jobs have included several years at Harvard College — as Assistant to the Dean for Race Relations and Minority Affairs and as Assistant to the Senior Tutor in Adams House. I have, of course, been a waiter, most notably at Boston's L'Espalier; I was also head waiter in a Japanese restaurant called Yamasushi. In college I worked for a very patient carpenter.

I have a long time interest in human languages and translation, particularly from Spanish and Italian; and I love to hike and camp, time permitting.

My wife, Robin Cautin, is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology at Manhattanville College, where we live in the 130 year-old stone gatehouse with (in order of appearance) our beagle Fletcher, our son Benjamin John, and our daughter Madeleine Alexandra. Robin's primary research is in the history of psychology, particularly the history clinical psychology. We have also collaborated on work examining the relationship of personality to deception detection ability. Robin and I met in the elevator of our West 72nd Street building when she was a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia.