Founder and director of the Signature Theater Company in New York city, he was also director of the Juilliard School drama division 2007-2016.
He became interested in theater at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, a Jesuit school in San Francisco. He earned a B.F.A. at Santa Clara University and an M.F.A. from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
