I'm a comedian, speaker and writer/performer.

I created a new form by combining elements of the Net and live performance. I've created a way to have art be expressive and participatory live. I can scale intimacy. I'm a powerful conversationalist. And I'm interested in what you care about right now. My work is about creating space in which people can be different together.

My interactive solo show "I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie" won Best of the Bay, plays at colleges and venues all over and I've made over 50,000 cookies in it. Chocolate chip. I've performed in venues from NY's Dixon Place and Ars Nova to SF Sketchfest and SXSW. I've even headlined MacWorld.

I began work on the web in 1995. I was part of the team at Apple that created webcasting and of Tony Fadell's first team to work on a digital music player/service. I've written for Alan Cumming and performed with Bill Irwin, but the best thing I've done on stage so far was shifting a space til I got about 20 college students to come out. I'm a Fellow at the University of Toronto's Sexual Diversity Studies.

I use performance as a lab, and give keynote talks about my insights on the technology, politics and culture and the human and emotional future at places like Google, Web 2.0 and YLE, Finland's BBC. I blend years of business experience and artistic insight to show people how to get listened to, how to create or change a social space and how to create together in a networked world. I'm quoted and covered in press like NPR, the Wall St Journal and Salon and contribute regularly to the CBC.

I teach UnPresenting workshops to people and companies, including Automattic, makers of WordPress, Freshbooks and PagerDuty.