Dennis is Light Opera of Portland’s Founding Artistic Director. He was a member of the Lamplighters, the oldest Gilbert & Sullivan company in America now in its 67th year of production before relocating to NYC where he spent 26 years in professional theatre as a singer, actor, director, playwright and studying as well as teaching both there and in Europe. Among his favorite roles in New York are Prince Karl Franz in the Light Opera of Manhattan’s The Student Prince, Mr. T and 105 in the original cast of Promenade with Madeline Kahn and as soloist for three years at Radio City Music Hall as well as Carnegie Hall with his own one man show, Evening of American Song. He also toured with the New York tour of My Fair Lady as Freddy Einsford Hill. Some of his favored directing credits are a production of Leonard Melfi’s Niagara Falls and his own If Wishes Were Horses both in New York City; Camelot, with Beaverton Civic Theatre, and many productions with his company, Phoenix Show Space Theatre (PSST!) in Arizona. As a teacher, he headed the voice department at American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City and was a theatre arts professor at Arizona State University.