For three decades Moore worked professionally on the East Coast and in the Twin Cities in theater and performing arts, starting as a stagehand and later as manager and independent producer. He moved to the Twin Cities in 1987 to lead the Playwrights’ Center. In 1996 he formed 3 Legged Race New Theater & Performance, a multi-disciplinary company premiering more than sixty original works by rising and established artists from New York, Minnesota and elsewhere. Of the hundreds of writers and artists he has supported many today number among the most recognized and influential in the field.

Since 2007 Moore has exhibited his visual work regionally in several groups shows. In 2014-15 Fred Larson and he twice exhibited collaboratively at the University of Minnesota’s Regis Center for Art with advice by Nash Gallery director Howard Oransky. His first solo exhibition, Armature, was presented by the Traffic Zone Gallery in 2017 under the direction of Lisa Nankivil. In 2019 the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis’ Gallery exhibited his Searching High and Low under the direction of Jil Evans. In 2023 he will assist the University of Minnesota’s Quarter Gallery with an exhibition celebrating Fred Larson’s work, life and influence.

A graduate of The Putney School, Moore earned an AB in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College, initially studying scenic design before switching to drawing and painting with Dimitri Hadzi and Flora Natapoff. At the Yale School of Drama he studied dramaturgy and dramatic criticism under Richard Gilman, Leon Katz, Stanley Kauffmann and Lloyd Richards, on whose Yale Rep world premiere of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone he served as dramaturg. He has studied drawing and painting with Graham Nickson at the New York Studio School. At the University of Minnesota’s Department of Art he has studied with Hartmut Austen, Meg Bussey, Sean Connaughty, Lynn Gray, Diane Katsiaficas, Alexis Kuhr, Joyce Lyon, Avigail Manneberg and Clarence Morgan.

Moore and his wife Leni are active in arts, education and other nonprofit activities. He serves currently as a trustee of the Guthrie Theater, whose government affairs committee he chairs; Walker Art Center; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; and the Camargo Foundation. He is a member of the National Council for the American Theatre (Theatre Communications Group) and a former trustee of the Minneapolis College of Arts & Design and the Highpoint Center for Printmaking.

He has two grown children, two step-children and one grandson.