I'm the deputy cultural editor of The New York Sun. My first foray into arts journalism occurred in the early 1990son Cape Cod, where Ispent three years writing theater criticism, among other things. I was passionate about arts journalism, but I was nonetheless briefly lured back to the news side until thechilly June afternoon when I did a one-off arts interview as a favor for an editor friend. Listening to Jose Quintero talk about Eugene O'Neill -- Mr. Quintero's cancer-ravaged voice amplified by a handheld machine, the fog shrouding Provincetown Harbor behind him -- convinced methat I needed to find my way back to doing cultural coverage, and so I did.
At various times since then, I have been the arts editor of the New Haven Register;a freelance writer for American Theatre, The New York Times, Newsday, Nextbook, and other publications; and a contributing news editor for ArtsJournal.com. I'm a member of the National Arts Journalism Program board, and I was a 2005 NAJP fellow at Columbia University.
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