Hal was a founding member of the Blue Dolphin, a collectively run venue for improvised music in San Francisco, and has worked in music, dance, and theater with Tumbleweed, Overtone Theater, Subterranean Shakespeare, and Nightletter Theater, which produced his play, “The Fisherman's Three Sons” at Intersection in 2002. He currently writes for, and is Senior Associate Editor of, California Coast & Ocean magazine, published by the California State Coastal Conservancy.