In 1984, at La Mama Theatre in New York, he made his stage acting debut in "Skins", a one-act play he had written. In 1985, he won the LA Weekly Theater Award for music with "Methusalem", directed by Tim Robbins. The play "Rounds", which he co-produced, won the NAACP award for theatre in 1987. In 1988, he played a feature role in "Band Dreams and Bebop" at the Gene Dynarski Theatre. He developed and performed a one-man piece from the Donald Barthelme short story, "The King of Jazz", at the Wallenboyd Theatre in 1989. With Adam Ant, he co-produced "Be Bop A Lula" at Theatre Theatre in 1992. He has acted in numerous TV shows, most memorably as himself in the show "Square Pegs", working as a drummer for Johnny Slash's band Open 24 Hours, and in an episode of "Beverly Hills 90210" in 1992, in Series 2, Episode 23, where he plays Ben, Dylan's sponsor.