screenwriting

2020

• currently writing an AUDIO DRAMA SERIES with a Peabody Award-winning radio producer
• currently writing a SCI-FI FEATURE with a New York City-based production company
• currently teaching at YOUNG SCREENWRITERS alongside NYU Professor John Warren

2019

• wrote THANK GOD FOR MISSISSIPPI, my first live-action indie film about growing up in Kentucky and if someone else has already written this I will literally scream
• wrote SAVING MARSVILLE, a family film about life on Mars, but was told there was already an animated Mars movie in development (LOL it’s all jokes at this point)

2018

• second-rounder in Austin Film Festival Drama Feature screenwriting competition for THE NORTHWOODS
• top 15% in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting competition for THE NORTHWOODS
• wrote THE NORTHWOODS, a family film about the myths surrounding Paul Bunyan, but was told there was already a Paul Bunyan movie in development (seriously?)

2017

• semifinalist in Austin Film Festival Sci-Fi Feature screenwriting competition for THE ENGINEER OF TERRACOTTA
• semifinalist in ScreenCraft Family Contest for THE ENGINEER OF TERRACOTTA
• quarterfinalist in ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship for THE ENGINEER OF TERRACOTTA
• quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft Family Contest for INTERNET
• fellow in Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship

2016

• winner of Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate Film and Television “SCRIPTS” feature screenwriting competition for INTERNET
• wrote THE ENGINEER OF TERRACOTTA, a family film about a girl traveling through dimensions, but was punched in the face by A WRINKLE IN TIME
• graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts

2015

• winner of the Oliver Stone Screenwriting Award for INTERNET
• winner of the Willard T. C. Johnson Fellowship
• wrote INTERNET, a cleverly-named script about a digital boy who lives in a computer, but was told there was already an internet-related animated movie in development (thx, WRECK-IT RALPH 2)

2014

• unknowingly wrote a (now) hilariously autobiographical drama about life in Kentucky which has since been burned and this is all you will ever hear about it

2013

• found myself

2012

• left Kentucky