- Spent two years of his childhood in Bogota, Colombia, where his father was in the Peace Corps.
- After leaving the Peace Corps, his father was Executive Director of Cleveland's famed Karamu House.
- Was a member of the first four-year graduating class from SUNY Purchase.
- First professional job after college was as Westmoreland in a 1976 Public Theatre production of Henry V, opposite Meryl Streep.
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