Q: What brought you to St. Mark's?
I'm from Los Angeles and always had a tough time at schools there. One day, my school counselor, who had taught at a boarding school back east, suggested I look into them. It sounded mean, but she was actually being nice.
Q: What is your favorite St. Mark's memory?
I remember gathering with fellow classmates around the bonfire on Groton Night my V Form Year. That same year, I managed the boys’ varsity soccer team, and we had to stay on campus over Thanksgiving to compete in a New England tournament.
Q: What does St. Mark's mean to you?
To be honest, time and experience have worn down my romantic feelings about life and my trust in high ideals. But there's something about St. Mark's that chips away at my cynicism and makes me feel those old feelings again—a teenaged vulnerability, a sense of openness to the world untainted by knowledge of it. As much as the campus has changed, and the buildings have been reworked, I still feel like something old is there, and some part of me is too. Something I want to touch and help preserve.
Q: Why do you continue to support St. Mark's School?
I look to places I care about preserving and uplifting. That includes the arts and theater programs, but mostly it includes St. Mark's.
Q: How has your time at St. Mark's prepared you to lead a life of consequence?
St. Mark's delivers a very good education, so if you pay attention, you will have a leg up with trivia for the rest of your life. If you take trivia as seriously as I do, this will mean a lot. I don't know if I lead a life of consequence, but I did sell a pilot to Netflix about kids in danger at a prestigious New England boarding school, so St Mark's definitely prepared me for that.