Work

Portfolio.

Scripts, plays, and short films. Loglines below; full scripts available as PDF, films available on request.

Scripts

Television Pilot

Mine Dark

When a burned-out VA psychologist rescues a mute girl from a locked bunker, she uncovers a string of disappearances linked to a centuries-old evil. Finalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship (top 50 out of 3,000 submissions); Semi-finalist, Sundance Episodic Lab.

Companion Document

Mine Dark — Show Bible

A companion to the pilot, which illustrates the world of the show.

Feature Screenplay

Tears Run Dry

A Tutsi prodigy in 1980s Uganda must endure ethnic persecution, crushing poverty, and a civil war to earn the education that will save his family.

Short Script

Manologue

During a mediocre third date, a woman's brutally honest internal monologue spirals from contempt to a surprising vision of love. Film in post-production.

Short Script

The Zara Touch

When a friend asks the secret behind a woman's perfect life, she admits to a strange, illegal ritual that brings her inner peace. Film in post-production.

Plays

Full-length Play

Buttonholes

An ensemble of eight lifelong friends narrates their own lives across three decades in a devised, actor-driven celebration of ordinary people swept up in history. Semi-finalist, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference.

Short Play

The Blue

Through alternating memory and performance, two old friends relive the secret world of their childhood summers. Finalist, Sam French OOB Festival; Finalist, City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting. Produced in Chicago, IL.

Short Play

Everglades

Two brothers flee an abusive childhood in the Florida Everglades and take opposite paths to the American Dream. Produced in Brooklyn, NY.

Short Films

Short Film · On the festival circuit

The Little Chick

A successful young writer and his wife host a troubled old friend for dinner. After a night of buried tensions and diverging life paths, he shares a story that reveals more than any of them expected.

Currently under consideration at several festivals — a screener is available on request.

Short Film · On the festival circuit

Glaciers

On the day they finalize their divorce, a man delays signing the papers by recounting a memory his ex-wife doesn't remember.

Currently under consideration at several festivals — a screener is available on request.