About Pro Humorist

I’m so incredibly handsome

Welcome to Pro Humorist, where I share the contents of my brain
and the occasional war story from my journey as a comedy performer and filmmaker.

This blog has gone through a few evolutions over the years, including using humor in presentations and exploring freelance comedy writing. There’s a link to some of those older posts if you’re curious.

These days, the focus is comedy filmmaking, performance, comedy history geekiness, and whatever I’m learning along the way. I am in no way an expert, but I am someone who likes to find breadcrumbs and share them. So this version of the blog will be more of a notebook where I try to synthesize my creative life.

I made a post about my return to blogging called… The Return…

About the Author

I’m a British-American comedy filmmaker, performer, and video editor based in Illinois, USA. Here’s a little background about me:

• While still in secondary school in the UK, I studied the British ensemble-based devised theatre techniques of Joan Littlewood and Clive Barker, and worked with Chris Baldwin on two devised productions that performed internationally.
• I trained as an actor at The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts Ltd in London, studying Shakespeare, improvisation, Brecht, Stanislavski, and Uta Hagen.
• I’ve performed across stand-up, sketch, improv, clowning, Shakespearean comedy, Commedia dell’arte, Restoration comedy, and Pantomime.
• I wrote, produced, and performed two solo shows: Please Stop Trying to Kill Me, Dad, which went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Shakespeare’s Fools, performed at The Odyssey Festival at Stevenson High School, Illinois.
• I’ve also written jokes for an online U.S. humor publication, and a U.K.-based drag act, and was commissioned to write a British pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, for The Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago.
• I run a production company, Henniker Road Media that produced the microbudget romantic comedy Falling for You, and has two additional films in post-production.
• For a short period, I even worked as a children’s party clown, an experience that directly influenced Falling for You.

If you’re into comedy, filmmaking, or simply watching someone figure out indie film, then in the words of the philosopher Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer: “Stick around!”

Falling for You is on Amazon, YouTube, and Tubi.