TWINK
OR SWIM

The one-person show I've been living since 2004.

I grew up in Salt Lake and came out in 2000 (as Mitt Romney was saving the Winter Olympics), and graduated West High in 2003. After a brief stint with the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns, I did what any sensible gay teen would: I enlisted in the U.S. Navy.

I spent four years in the Western Pacific aboard USS Patriot, an Avenger-class minesweeper, visiting more than 30 countries on a mission to clear mines and, you know, meet people. Twink or Swim is about how the Navy is hilarious if you survive it.

It's stand-up, not a play: about three quarters of an hour, one microphone, told straight to the room. The themes are adult but the language is clean, which means it plays as easily for a high-school-age audience as it does at midnight in a bar. It programs neatly alongside queer work, veterans' work, and storytelling.

I'm based in Seattle, where I host and feature at Tacoma Comedy Club and Emerald City Comedy Club, and perform from San Francisco to Vancouver. I was selected twice for The Hollywood Comedy Store's Potluck Show, and have studied under Alice Fraser (The Bugle), Tiff Stevenson (HBO's Avenue 5), and Andrew Frank (Great Salt Lake Fringe, 2022).