Dallas lives in Tucson, Arizona. As a child of Federal Prison Employees, he relocated often until settling in Frederick, MD when he was 13. Being exposed to so many different cultures throughout the United States gave him a talent for picking up accents and mannerisms, helping to create lots of varied characters. As a high School student, he was able to study theatre arts for three hours a day at a magnet arts program at Governor Thomas Johnson High School. Dallas was always interested in sports and played on basketball teams through the ninth grade when he discovered his love for acting. After moving on from round ball, Dallas lettered in swimming and diving on his high school team, and as a yell leader and school mascot. Always involved with different clubs and organizations in high school, Dallas rose to the level of President of the Thespian Club as well as the Concert Choir and was a national quarter finalist in Duo Interpretation at the 1995 National Catholic Forensics League competition in Chicago.
After high school, he attended the University of Tennessee where he studied theatre and dance along with his general studies until transferring to New York University to study acting at the Tisch School for the Arts. Dallas decided to pursue his professional career in acting in lieu of continuing his education at the age of 20 and moved to California to work at the Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville on Highway 1 in Oceano, CA. It was there that he fell in love with California and met his first wife, Leesa. They were married two years later and had their son Isaac two years after that. Dallas continued acting and decided in 2003 that he wanted to go back to school to learn how to produce theatre. Dallas then attended McDaniel College in Westminster, MD and studied production under Ira Domser, while taking classes in Business Administration. Dallas relocated back to California in 2006 when he took a job in the Federal Prison System in Los Angeles. After 2 years as a prison guard and transferring to the Federal Correctional Complex in Lompoc, CA, Dallas got woke and left the prison system to pursue his passion.
Instead of going directly back to his first love in performing, and the only thing he knew, Dallas decided to take this time to learn a new craft and started working strictly in video formats including film and television. Dallas studied improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in LA and produced web content for Sirius/XM radio personality, Jason Ellis. Dallas worked as a background actor on such shows as Grey's Anatomy, The Office, Mad Men, CSI and Greek, while starring in short student films at USC, Chapman University and LA Film School. At this time Dallas was also working for New Rule Productions as a member of a small film crew for local commercials and industrial videos. New Rule Productions branched out into special effects props and Dallas spent a couple of years making break away glass wine bottles, plates and foam hammers. During his time in Los Angeles, Dallas won championships with the Stonecutters softball team of the Santa Monica Men's League and the Ship It trivia team at the Irish Times bar of the Palms neighborhood.
While doing some extra work at SmashProps, his friend and producer of American Dragster, Ryan Johnson, made him an offer that changed his life, by offering to bring him to Black Rock City as a part of the Camp Illumelodie build team. While at Burning Man, Dallas found a community and a new outlook on his purpose as a creative artist. Since then, Burning Man has become a large part of Dallas' life and the main focal point of his creative energy. Dallas has been a logistics volunteer for the Emergency Services Department of Black Rock City since 2015 and co-founded the Castaways' Island camp of the unofficial Black Rock City Beach neighborhood in 2018. Currently, the Castaways are building a monster vehicle to float through the Black Rock Desert and bring awareness of the impact of climate change on the coral reefs and oceanic eco-systems of our planet.
In May of 2011, Dallas met with his old friend from the New London Barn Playhouse, a Summer Stock Theatre in New Hampshire, Brad Surosky and his wife, Amy Miller, and decided to pursue starting a theatre festival in Sonoma County, California. Based on the success of their benefit concert for Jack London State Park, Dallas and his family relocated to the Santa Rosa area in April of 2012, where Dallas started getting involved with the 6th Street Playhouse through his work with Alchemia, Theatre for Life, as a teacher of performing arts to adults with special needs. Dallas started working in the wine industry at Kaz Family Winery in 2012, after the culmination of the inaugural season of Broadway Under the Stars at Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen, CA, where he met the owner and winemaker, Rick Kasmier, as a sponsor winery of the concert series. In the spring of 2013, Dallas found his way back to the stage for the first time in almost a decade, as Harold in a local Sonoma County production of The Full Monty. Dallas went on to win the honors of Sonoma County's Best Supporting Actor in 2014 and Best Lead Actor in 2015.
Dallas continued to act in Sonoma County Theatre as the Fun Maker in Chief of a theatre for children troupe called The Chalkboard Players which he and, his partner, Joy started in June of 2014. The Chalkboard Players produced original shows for young audiences including Goldi and the Bears which premiered in the fall of 2014 and The Adventures of Water Woman which premiered on Earth Day 2015 to teach kids about conserving water. The mission of the Chalkboard Players was to engage new youth audiences in fun art experiences, sparking interest in live performance and promoting the connections that art makes. To fulfill this mission, they created a Summer Free Lunch Site Fun Tour for the summer of 2015 to bring interactive theatre to kids who would otherwise not be able to go to the theatre. From 2016 - 2020, Chalkboard also produced free creative arts summer camps and taught trauma informed art in Sonoma County for ages 8-80.
Responding to the trauma of the 2017 wildfires that devastated Sonoma county, the Chalkboard Players created a trauma informed healing arts curriculum that they taught in over 20 classrooms throughout the county. Joy and Dallas have presented their work to other teachers and child care professionals at various conferences, including Nadine Burke Harris' Center for Youth Wellness 2016 Adverse Childhood Experiences Conference in San Francisco, Beyond Consequences Institute's 2018 Trauma Informed Schools Conference in Sacramento, the CoCo Kids training conference in 2019, and also instructed a group of teaching artists from Sonoma and Mendocino counties how to successfully complete a trauma informed artists' residency. After the 2020 pandemic cancelled group activities in California, the Chalkboard players closed their California based services and Dallas moved with Joy to southern Pennsylvania. In 2024 Dallas and Joy amicably separated and Dallas moved to Tucson, AZ, to care for his aging parents.
Dallas started working as a voice actor from his home studio, specializing in Audiobook narration and production. He continues his onstage work at the Tucson Improv Movement theatre on East 9th Street in Downtown Tucson.