After completing his first year at Marymount Manhattan College, he apprenticed at The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston, a program led by Adam Sanders and Victoria Townsend. While there, he appeared in “Henry IV, Part I” directed by Bryn Boice. In his second year, he worked with Intar Theatre in New York as an assistant stage manager for their production of “The Maids” by Jose Rivera. That year he also appeared in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” with the Brooklyn Opera Company. At Marymount, he was part of the Musical Theatre Association’s production of “Working:The Musical,” and in a directing project’s production of “Detroit” by Lisa D’Amour. He also took classes from Aleksey Burago’s The Russian Arts and Theatre Studio in NYC. In his last year at Marymount Manhattan College, he appeared in the Cabaret “When They Go Low, We Sing High” directed by Lennie Watts and musically directed by Steven Ray Watkins. Later he and his cast mates were selected to sing at the Manhattan Association of Cabarets Award Ceremony.

In 2018, he was accepted into the University of South Carolina’s MFA Acting-Training Program, where he has since appeared as Platonov in Anton Chekhov’s “Platonov,” Lucky in “Waiting for Godot,” and Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” all under the direction of Steve Pearson. He played Mr. Shears and other roles in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime,” directed by Robert Richmond. Other performances include a dance piece, “Seven Thoughts,” and a slow tempo work, “Clearing,” both conceived by Robyn Hunt and developed by the graduate ensemble. He has worked on roles in “Macbeth”, (Macbeth & Macduff), directed by Stan Brown, and a new slow tempo work, “Stories of Dislocation,” directed by Robyn Hunt. In the spring, he played Orpheus in Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice”, directed by Lindsay Rae Taylor and Sergei in “Black Snow” by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov which was directed by Steven Pearson. Through out his graduate acting career he was also teaching Fundamentals of Acting at The University of South Carolina for two years. He interned at Manhattan Theater Club as an education intern where he also performed as an actor in Write Now! short plays collective.

Over the years, Can has became a dedicated writer, performer, cabaret artist who is an advocate to telling queer immigrant stories on stage. His one person show, Smoke Point opened at The Brick was a huge success. His next show “A Hundred Dollar Bill” made him an award winner writer and performer. Later Can created four different one person shows including “Master of Time” at Teatro Latea New York Summer Festival where he was nominated as best singer, and “Only Place I Belong” at the Tank. He is an artistic collaborator as a writer and a performer at The What Co’s CrossPolunation artist collaboration event supported by the Dramatist Guild.