I’m a proud Canadian born in Ottawa, our Nation’s Capitol. I moved to Toronto when I was three. We were a middle-class family in a nice home where I learned to always treat people with respect. I was an average student, more interested in hockey and baseball. I never showed any real aptitude for writing until my late 20’s after two years of taking Eli Rill’s acting workshops. I had been in some TV shows and films and decided to try to write a screenplay. Eli loved it, and encouraged me to go to Los Angeles, where he was moving with his wife and son to work with Lee Strasberg at his famed Actor’s Studio. Soon I was in the Cast of a Play Mr. Strasberg was producing with hopes of taking it to Broadway. Being in this environment sparked an idea for a film. I wrote the script, showed it to Eli and Larry Mann, a fine actor and fellow Canadian living in Los Angeles. Larry introduced me to a producer who set up a meeting with Lew Weitzman, a respected literary agent with his own Agency after several years with the William Morris Agency. Lew signed me! I was thrilled! So were Eli and Larry. After writing several Episodes for ‘Inspector Gadget’, and a TV Movie, I set up a production company in Toronto to produce two TV Movies that I also wrote. Eight years before this I could never have imagined I'd be writing TV shows, but it just proved you never know when an opportunity will come along and change your life. I had no training in writing, and had I known then how difficult this business is, I likely would never have taken that first step. My friends thought I was crazy flying off to Los Angeles, but Eli saw something in me, and that was all I needed. If you have a dream, don’t be afraid to take a chance to pursue it, and never be afraid of failing, because that’s how you get better. And it really helps if you’re fortunate to have a great mentor … or three!