Education
He graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas in 1990.
He graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas in 1990.
He is one of the founders of Rude Mechanicals theater company and he has been working with this collaborative theater company since 1996. He published his first novel, Rules for Werewolves, in 2015. In 2011, he was named one of the United States Artists Jeanne and Michael Klein Fellows for the category of Theater Arts.
The Wrestling Patient (co-written with Anne Gottlieb and Katie Pearl) Produced by Speakeasy Productions Directed by Katie Pearl Premiered at Boston Center for the Arts Roberts Studio Theatre, March 27 - April 11, Decameron Day 7: Revenge directed by Shawn Sides • created by Rude Mechs April/May The Office Center (Austin, Texas) Cherrywood: the modern comparable directed by Shawn Sides • created by Rude Mechs October/November The Office Center (Austin, Texas) June 2005 National Ensemble Theatre Festival (Blue Lake, California) How late it was, how late adapted from the Booker Prize–winning novel by James Kelman directed by Sarah Richardson • created by Rude Mechs September The Office Center (Austin, Texas) El Paraiso directed by Shawn Sides • created by Rude Mechs April/May The Office Center (Austin, Texas) Requium for Tesla directed by Shawn Sides • created by Rude Mechs January/February The Office Center (Austin, Texas) February Fresh Terrain Festival (Austin, Texas) (a Frontera Fest production) written by José Hernández and Kirk Lynn • directed by Catherine Glynn February Hyde Park Theater Crucks (Participant II of the Faminly Trilogy) directed by Shawn Sides July/August Public Domain Salivation (Participant III of the Faminly Trilogy) directed by Gavin Mundy November Hyde Park Theater September Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).