is originally from Dallas, TX, and started training in acting, musical theater, jazz, and tap at Flower Mound Performing Arts Theater. He began studying other dance forms when he was accepted into Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts when he was 14. After high school he attended The Juilliard School and graduated with Jason and Ingrid in 2013. While there, he performed pieces by William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Bronislava Nijinska, Andrea Miller, Pam Tanowitz, Loni Landon, and Zack Winokur. Since school, he has performed with Barkin/Selissen Project, Boy Friday, Pavel Zuštiak - Palissimo Company, UNA Projects, and in City Center's Fall for Dance Festival, and he has given workshops in Jackson Hole, WY at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts. He toured internationally with Gallim Dance in the summer of 2014 and nationally with Brian Brooks Moving Company from September 2014 to March 2015.