Photography / Web: I am the webmaster for The National Asian-American Theatre Company and The Kaleidoscope Theatre Company and do extensive volunteer web work for Democracy for NYC. This website includes a number of photo and text essays, an extensive collection of digital photos of New York City, The Privett Family Website (covering over three centuries of my family's history), Andros on Ballet (a ballet history site for teacher Dick Andros), discographies for Louis Armstrong. and Sarah Vaughan, photo galleries of various American Theatres and random bits of American Infrastructure, my experience with Hurricane Rita, a detailed essay on Renewable Energy Technology, a comic horror story involving an XM Radio Receiver and Best Buy.

Music: I have been writing and/or performing music for over 30 years in a variety of settings. My current focus is instrumental music for guitars and trombones and this website includes my most recent MP3 collection, Debut. I have also written pop-rock music with close vocal harmony, represented by the collections: Together Again (2006), A Face in the Crowd (2004), and Time To Move On (2001). I wrote and produced Mossadegh, a rock opera based on the C.I.A.-orchestrated 1953 Iranian coup, for the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. I wrote and produced the musical comedy The Irreplaceable Commodity for the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival. The website for Mossadegh had a surprising afterlife, receiving attention from the BBC, Radio Farda, and numerous Iranian blogs. I have a music education degree from North Texas State (now UNT) and marched with the drum and bugle corps Blue Stars (1980), Louisiana Southernaires (1981) and Madison Scouts (1984).

Linux: I am an advocate for the Linux computer operating system and have used it on my home systems since 2000. I maintain Linux for Laptops installation instructions for a variety of Toshiba laptops (see navigation bar to the left for models). I also support MMUSBAUDIO (a device driver for the Roland USB audio devices), MMXMPCR (a device driver for XM Radio PCR) and MMPTP (a Linux utility for downloading pictures from PTP digital cameras). I have been working with various flavors of UNIX since graduating from North Texas State with a Master's degree in Computer Science. I worked as a C/UNIX programmer in Dallas at Texas Instruments and VISystems before moving to New York City and I have completed the CTA network administration and design program at Columbia University.

Theatre: From 1991-2006 I worked in theatre in New York City. Off-Broadway I appeared as a performer in the musicals Making Tracks and Shanghai Lil's. Regionally I appeared in productions of 42nd Street (Julian), The Pajama Game (Sid), The King & I (King). Television credits include All My Children, As The World Turns, The City, Law & Order and background work on an extensive number of other forgettable television shows and feature films. I toured four seasons with the award-winning children's theatre company Theatreworks/USA (Secret Garden, Swiss Family Robinson, Charlotte's Web, Romeo & Juliet) and worked as a stage manager with Artspower, The Kaleidoscope Theatre Company and the 78th Street Theatre Lab. At various times I have been a member of The Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity Association, AGMA, AFTRA and SAG.