Origin Story
My late father was born in the U.S. to Greek immigrant parents who worked hard to get ahead. On my mother’s side, her mother was a classical pianist and her father was a western writer. When I was 8 years old I decided my career was going to be that of a magic entertainer and I was a performer until age 18.
Los Angeles Calls
Shortly after turning 18 and based on a feature length Super 8 movie I had made about a nerd magician who becomes a rock superstar, I got a job offer from a movie studio.
So I moved from the small hippie town in California that had a population of about 100 people where I was living, and relocated to the City of Angels, Hollywood.
Heading East
I later transitioned to Manhattan, NYC in 1988 and have lived here ever since. Shortly after arriving in New York, NY, I made a 16mm feature film ‘real life’ experiment.
The movie inspired the creation of a weekly half hour reality show that ran for about ten years, starting to broadcast over a year before “The Real World” which is generally thought as being the first official reality show.
Artisticpreneur Update
2024 has been a very special year for me in which a jumped back into being an artisticpreneur in a way that took me by surprise. I repurposed one of my 30 Blog Post Journalism publications.
The blog was originally started in June of 2018 as an exploration of the process that celebrities use to position themselves in the industry of entertainment.
It is now a new venture with the mission to help stars of small business with celebrity strategy and celebrity personal brand building to celebify themselves to grow their business while they simultaneously make a difference in their communities.