Spent time Directing Dinner Theater Groups around the country after he visited an actress/friend Sharon Garrison invited him to visit her at The Beverly Dinner Playhouse in Jefferson Parrish, Louisiana during a run of "The Second Time Around" with legendary actor Pat O'Brien; the show also featured Pat's wife Eloise and John Lithgow. He went on to Direct "One Flew Over the Cuckcoos Nest", "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds", "A Penny for your Thoughts", "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "Twelve Angry Men."