Attended the East Meadow Public School System. In High School he stole
the leads of all the plays. He was in Theatre Guild. Graduating in
1996, he was voted Most-Dramatic in the Senior Superlatives although he
spent much of senior year in Florida filming The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (1996). He also plays in
a folk band originally named 28 Orange Street, later renamed 'Common
Rotation'.