I spent the first 18 years of my life raised in a conservative, God fearing household in Orlando, FL. When I graduated from Dr. Phillips High School in 2002, I was decorated as Prom King & Senior Class President.

In autumn of 2002, I began my collegiate career attending New York University where I obtained a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2006.

I ran for Senior Class President to give glory to God
— John S. Columbus

I became a member of the Actors Equity Association while working at the Paper Mill Playhouse, and by 2007 I was touring North America in the first national tour of Monty Python’s Spamalot.

When the Broadway tour ended in 2009, I stayed in Los Angeles to continue my professional acting career. I worked at the Pasadena Playhouse, did a few commercials, one pilot, and made an appearance on Comedy Central before moving back home to Orlando in 2012.

In 2013 began working full time at Walt Disney World as a performer in the comedy troupe “The World Showcase Players” in the United Kingdom Pavilion at EPCOT. While working in the entertainment community around Orlando, I was afforded an opportunity to set sail with Disney Cruise Line in 2015.

I spent over 1,100 days at sea where I learned about the importance of leadership on a contained floating society. Leaders are meant to support the crew, not the other way around. I experienced a revolving door of leaders during my tenure at sea, and how their attitudes trickled down into the behavior and experiences of everyone onboard.

Then in 2020, the world shut down and so did my entire industry while politicians flailed in their response. This is when I began to shift my sights to politics. It was easy to see the self serving corruption profiting off the people who where struggling. The point of view I understood about leadership on the micro level became all too clear to me at the macro level, and I decided to do something about it. As a theatre professional I recognized the disingenuous nature of many in power, and the terrible political theatre they were giving the American people and felt I could do better.

At present, I’ve continued to work in the Central Florida entertainment industry, and have worked to structure my plan for my political platform. I want to cool the political temperature that has risen to dangerous levels, and act as a diplomat in these contentious times. In every theatre production I’ve ever been apart of, one thing is key to the shows success: collaboration. No one person’s ego is more important than the product we give an audience, and this is the point I want to make in my run for office. Only when we put our differences aside and get meaningful work done will the American people be granted the greatest quality of happiness; but as long as the polarized partisan echo chambers continue to divide us, the self serving politicians will continue to collect their socialized paycheck while neglecting their duty to the citizens that elected them.