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• Trained in fine theater.
• Worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for five years.
• Auditioned for The Orville with a scene from "Command Performance."
• Creator Seth MacFarlane texted him the same day he auditioned to inform him that he was hired to play Bortus in The Orville.
• While wearing his Bortus costume, some ants crawled inside of the costume and bother him all day.
• On the set of The Orville, sometimes craft services staff don't recognize him because he is usually in costume.
• When his first child was born, he got to cut the umbilical cord.
• In 2002, won a Creative Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for narrating Animated Tales of the World (2001).