 With a fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts, he wrote, composed and designed the musical, "Under the River", set in the World Trade Center's PATH station.It played at the Ohio Theatre in September 1998, produced with Theatre Tweed.In 1989 he began working as the publisher's assistant for "OutWeek" magazine and also contributed his first news and arts stories for editors Michelango Signorile, Sarah Pettit, and Gabriel Rotello.