I first became involved in theatrical jousting during the summer of 1987. I was 21, working part time as a freelance commercial artist while dividing my time between my home town of Paris, Texas and an apartment in Dallas. I had attended college on a theatrical arts scholarship, and had in fact been involved with the theater both scholastically and professionally from early High School, moonlighting at local Equity theaters in the D/FW Metroplex, qualifying for membership in Actor's Equity by the age of 19. Somehow I wound up working at Scarborough Faire (a local Renaissance Fair in Waxahachie, TX) on weekends.

     While there, I was hired by Richard Alvarez, who was at that time the managing general director of the Hanlon-Lees Action Theater (H-LAT). By June of that year I was in Wisconsin, at what was then named King Richard's Faire (Kenosha), training as a squire in the hope that I would eventually receive an audition to ride as a knight. I did so in the autumn of 1987, at the King Richard's Faire sister show in Carver, Massachusetts.

     In May of the following year, I returned to Kenosha, again as a squire, to prepare for my first show as a jousting knight. It came later that summer, at the 1988 Michigan Renaissance Festival in Holly, Michigan, where I performed my first joust and formally won my spurs. I finished out the year splitting my time between jousting and squiring for H-LAT in Carver.

     I continued to joust for H-LAT over the course of the next several years, eventually assuming the duties of joust-team Master of Horse and Assistant Director, performing in Colorado, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. After the Arizona Renaissance Faire in 1993, H-LAT split up and reformed as two separate companies, International Action Theater (I.A.T.) and Jousting Knights & Steeds, Inc. I rode with I.A.T. for the rest of that summer, until its demise in December of 1993.

     In the spring of 1994, I helped to co-found New Edge Adventure Theater with my joust partner James Kilgore. Despite a brief sabbatical to ride with Jousting Knights and Steeds, Inc. (now sole inheritor to the title Hanlon-Lees Action Theater) in Carver in 1995, I performed exclusively with New Edge throughout the 1990's and into the new Millennium, acting as that company's Artistic Director and Master of Horse. During this period I rode in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, and Connecticut.

     During my career I have had the opportunity to work with many extremely talented and innovative individuals, among them Kent Shelton, Taso Stavrakis, Steven "Omms" Ommerle, Richard Alvarez, James Kilgore, Matthew Mansour, Bryan Beard, and many, many others. I have also had the honor of knowing and interacting with many other fine equestrian performers currently working in the field of theatrical jousting, contacts which I still maintain to this day.

     In addition, I have had the distinct pleasure of watching as many of the jousters who trained under my tutelage have gone on to form their own theatrical jousting troupes. In fact, at least two other professional joust companies in existence today are owned and managed by former squires of mine, and many other squires and knights with whom I worked have gone on to further careers in the theatrical arts, film and television, as actors, combatants, and stunt personnel.

     It is my sincere hope that those with whom I have worked continue to hold me in some esteem for the many years and shows which we performed together, under various company banners, on jousting fields throughout the country. I believe in chivalry as a positive force in my life and, hopefully, in the lives of those with whom I have been honored to interact.

     It was once suggested to me that my motto could be Semper Eadem, meaning "always the same." I pride myself in the consistency and reliability of my performance skills in the face of an unpredictable business, one which is always hectic and often dangerous.

     To all those with whom I have crossed lances, or who have watched from beyond the fence as we thrust ourselves into harm's way for their entertainment, I lower my lance in salute.

     It is to do honor to those friends that I have created this website, simply as a record of jousts won and lost and past times gone by. There were days when the ground trembled beneath the feet of our horses hooves, when we burst like armored Joves from the dust-cloud of our charge, wielding our lances like thunderbolts. And there will be more.

     Let nothing that was good and true ever be forgotten.