Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume
One, 1981-1985, pages 786-788. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1998.
Winner of an UNIMA Citation of Excellence award from the American
Chapter of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette, 1979.
He got his start in high school theater. He left the University of Chicago after one semester to join a puppet theater company run by the city's parks department and funded by the Works Progress Administration.