At the age of 18, he wrote, directed and edited the short film,
Sugar Mountain (2005). He wrote and directed his first short film when he was
13-years-old.
His father is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His mother has German and Irish ancestry.
Attended Harand Camp (Theatre and Sports Camp) in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
He is a frequent co-star of his close friend Michael Welch.
He has appeared in episodes of two different series in which he played
a high school student where the school principal was an
African-American man named was Steven: Boston Public (2000) and Joan of Arcadia (2003).