What life experiences separate me from the next writer?

• I spent five years heading up a popular improv and sketch comedy troupe.
• One of our works featured on an HBO special
• We played festivals around the country, and opened for Dan Castellaneta (Simpsons) and Fred Willard (Best in Show)
• I once played Grouchy Smurf, Willford Brimley, a decepticon, the Hamburglar, and a giant singing Ritalin pill in the same show

• I attended Stanford, where I earned a degree in engineering.
• As a member of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band, I experienced having the world’s largest flag dragged over my head during halftime at the Liberty Bowl. During another halftime show in which we were making an O.J. Simpson joke, I played the role of the bench that he jumped over.
• During a second successive all-nighter in my senior year, I experienced hallucinations of small creatures running in my peripheral vision. At that point I decided to go to sleep.

• My first job out of college involved writing and directing educational videos for a computer science summer camp. This grew into a position writing their curriculum and hiring their teaching staff.
• I once interviewed candidates all day in Boston, then again in New York, Providence, Philadelphia, Washington, and Atlanta, all in a week
• I designed software that allowed 6-year-olds to learn computer programming.
• When we played capture the flag at computer camp, the teams were Mac users vs. PC users. Mac users usually won.

• For three years I worked as a middle school drama teacher. I also taught computers and math.

• I probably know more than I should about puppetry.

• I grew up on a farm in rural Washington state. My home town had a single stoplight until the mid-90s. When the second one went in, it made the front page of the paper. Places I have lived include Atlanta, San Francisco, Seattle, and now Los Angeles.

• I built scenery on an MC Hammer video that takes place in Hell. Beat that.