Dash would tell you that he started his performance career at the Maryland Renaissance Festival when he was just barely 18… but he actually started several years earlier with a summer theater program doing Musical Theater. Summer theater led to Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadow Casts, and that led him to, of course, Renaissance Festivals.

Starting out in the dunk tank, he quickly decided that he’d give being a merchant a go. Selling Unicorn heads on a stick wasn’t a bad job for a couple years until he was persuaded to audition for the cast. He was accepted into the Royal Court as a Guard. From there he began learning different acts of the American Sideshow. Eating fire was the first skill, a bit of juggling next, then on to animal traps.

During his festival career he has portrayed a sheriff’s deputy, a town thief, a Royal Tax Collector, A falconers apprentice, A Shakespearean Professional Wrestler, and an actor combatant/choreographer… but through it all, he retained his love of the weird. He learned that there was a fine line between being Dangerously Stupid and being stupidly dangerous, and he aims to walk the line while leaning towards the former.

“Some people are born Dangerously Stupid. I made it a career choice!”