Occupation: I am a stay-at-home parent. Formerly, I was a performing arts administrator, a dramaturg, which is sort of an artistic advisor, an actor, and a stage director. I’m also the founder of the Flagpole Radio Café at Edmond Town Hall under the auspices of the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission.

Family: My wife, Barbara, is a radiologist with Newtown Diagnostics Imaging and is affiliated with Danbury Hospital, as well. We have two children, Kathryn, 10, and Matthew, who is 7.

How long have you been in Newtown? We have been here almost four and a half years, moving up from Silver Spring, Md.

What do you like to do in your free time? I enjoy cooking, and I enjoy working in the arts, so I’m glad to be on the commission with the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission. I like to read, and I like to listen to music.

What are you reading right now? I’m reading Chris Bohjalian’s Law of Similars, and I just finished Major Barbara by George Shaw, which was amazing. Bohjalian and Shaw are both as provocative as they are funny in their writing.

Do you have a favorite travel destination? Without a doubt, the Yacht Club Hotel and Resort at Disney World in Florida. It’s our home away from home. We go to Disney World once a year. It’s a spectacularly beautiful place with beautiful landscaping and architecture, and to paraphrase Ray Bradbury, Disney World is like a phenomenal time machine. We’ve had wonderful family vacations there. The other place we love is my mother’s house on Cape Cod.

What is the best thing about Newtown? We were first attracted to Newtown by the beautiful landscape, and we stayed because we met wonderful and beautiful people.

If you could travel to the past or future, which would you choose? I think I would travel to the past — no more than a couple of hundred years. There would have been some people of great intellect whom I would have loved to have met. There’s a familiarity with the past, because you can read about it.

Do you have a hero? There are so many people I admire, but I think I will say my maternal grandfather, Tom. He was a wise man and he was a kind man. He knew how to lead a good life and set a good example in life. He showed us how to live and he showed us how to die. If I find myself struggling on how to make a decision, I think about what he might have done.

Do you have a personal philosophy? Try to find joy and laughter every day. Most likely, you will find it in what is mundane. And the corollary, if you don’t do this, you’re a darn fool.

Do you have a guilty pleasure? The TV shows The Office and Big Bang. There I’m outed. I watch network television.