On screen Barry starred in the indie film of his book, The Sadness of Sex (dir. Rupert Wainwright, with Peta Wilson). Live, he won a Drama-Logue Award for his spoken-word solo show of Wearing Dad's Head & was invited to Sundance Theater Lab to develop his book Haunted Traveller. He's built a cult following from club & cabarets in LA & New York.

Now Barry comes to kids too--with subversive NASTYbooks. The first NASTYbook, a volume of stories, sprang out in spring 05. Up next is Another NASTYbook: The Curse of the Tweeties, a novel touched with manga, due spring 06.

Barry's stories: The Paris Review, Story, Bomb, Nerve, etc. Nonfiction in NY Times, LA Times, Spin, New York, and Salon. His fiction is much anthologized. As screen actor he's played a bomb-mad scientist (Fatman and Little Boy), a beestung highschool principal (Don't Look under the Bed), and a futuristic drugdealer (Terminal Justice, where he had a fight scene with Lorenzo Lamas!). He even starred in an Anthrax heavy-metal video. Born in South Africa, he came to the US as a boy. He lives in New York and travels a lot.