Mutch started acting in 1982 when he joined The Starfire Singers, a theater group and appeared in his first play, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". He moved to Los Angeles in 1992 and joined the Screen Actors Guild while working on Star Trek. He moved to San Francisco in 1996 and participated in several stage plays, then in 2001, he relocated in Monterey. Still working in stage plays and at the Shakespeare festival in Carmel in 2005, he also started to appear on several science fiction conventions such as the Starbase Indy in Indianapolis. [3] [4]