In 2005, while studying theater at USC, was one of 14 students (out of more than 100) to land a part in a revival of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sidney Kingsley's 1935 drama, Dead Men, at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles
Other stage work includes a role in Wendy Graf's Leipzig in 2006
Made film debut in the title role of Con: The Corruption of Shawn Helm, a short written and directed by his childhood friend, Brandon Bennett
Sings and plays piano and guitar in a band called Eleanor Avenue