Raised in a cabin in the Vermont woods, I still love waking up in the middle of a forest.
I have lived in NYC for over a decade.
Press
Film Fest for CAST: Nature at the Vanishing Point (2020)
Tribeca Film Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announce Winners (2020)
Faculty Positions
Adjunct Assistant Professor of TV Writing, Department of Radio, Television, Film at Hofstra University’s Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, Fall 2019 - present
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Eco Film at Sterling College, Spring 2020
Film / TV
ANOMALY, story editor, Tribeca Film Festival Selection - 2021
CLAMMING, creator and writer, TV series, Tribeca Sloan Discovery Award winner; finalist for the Grinnell Wall Award - 2020
BLUEPOINT, writer, short film, awarded production grant from MOME (Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment) - 2020
GHOST BIRDS, writer, narrative feature script, semi-finalist in The Launch - 2019
KIDNAPPING MOM, writer, narrative feature script, semi-finalist in the Middlebury Script Lab - 2017
SWIM STROKE, writer/director/editor, short film, premiered at Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Roxy Underground Film Festival, featured in The New York Times - 2017
Education
CUNY Brooklyn College Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, MFA, Screenwriting, 2016 - 2019
Grinnell College, BA, Visual Arts & Cultural Studies, 2002 - 2006
Continuing education via classes and summits at SVA (painting), Columbia (tech), MIT (speculative design)
Training
Directing: Milcho Manchevski, Jodie Markell
Screenwriting: Alison Maclean, Jackie Blain, Ricardo Hernandez, Christina Kallas
Script Analysis & Development: Jon Shear
Cinematography: David Claessen
Transmedia: Jason Kliot
Artistic Research: Sam Ishii-Gonzalez
Portraiture: Alphonse Van Woerkom
Emerging Media
Sound Side Film Festival, Founder, NYC, 2020
Creative Producer & Product Manager, Dstillery, NYC, 2012 - 2015
Director of Product Management, Pearson Learning Solutions, NYC, 2010 - 2012
Digital Product Innovation Manager, Springer Science & Business Media, NYC, 2007 - 2010