Author, Screenwriter, Comedic Writer/Actor

Writing Expertise:

Feature films: biopics, horror, thriller, sci-fi, young adult.

Comedy: sketch, TV half hour, features, prose.

Prose: short stories, books

Representation:

MGMT

Zero Gravity

Experience:

Screenwriting: I’ve worked with production companies in LA, NYC, and Beijing. I’ve had screenplays optioned by a number of companies, including Cassian Elwes’ Elevated (Dallas Buyers Club, Mudbound) and former Disney executive Steve Sahlein’s Empire Media Partners (The Comeback Trail). My work has trended and earned awards on Franklin Leonard’s Black List site, scoring in the top percent of thousands of scripts, in addition to earning quarterfinal recognition through ScreenCraft’s horror competition, and quarterfinal (top one percent) and semifinal (top .4 percent) placement in Script Pipeline’s elite screenwriting competition.

While working at Hooked (which was a leading Young Adult (YA) mobile streamer/fiction/audio story platform for Gen Z, with investors that included WME/Endeavor, Ashton Kutcher, and the Chernin Group), I adapted and wrote original screenplays. I also wrote and produced TV pilots and shorts for HookedTV, in addition to fiction for the Hooked fiction app. My stories had 6.7 million reads. My short films had 132 million views. G

Comedy Acting/Writing: My comedic prose has appeared in McSweeney's and the Weekly Humorist. As a sketch writer and comedy actor, I’ve been on teams for UCB Maude, Boogie Manja, and Second City. I’ve been in NHL commercials, podcasts, and over 150 improv, character, and sketch shows at venues including Second City Mainstage, UCB, the Soho Playhouse, the Magnet, the Players Theatre, the PIT, the BCC, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Education:

MFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Dramatic Writing – Screenwriting, TV Writing, Playwriting

BA, Oberlin College

Creative Writing – Screenwriting, Fiction, Non-fiction

UCLA Summer Institute in Motion Picture and Television Producing

Second City Conservatory Acting, Improv, and Sketch Comedy

UCB Sketch Comedy/Improv

The PIT Improv