Engineer + Writer + Artist.
Welcome! I typically write features focused on original characters, with a style somewhere between Andy Weir, Cormac McCarthy, and John Hughes. My work has received recognition from the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and Austin Film Festival, as well as executives from Disney, Netflix, Mandeville Films, Management 360 and 20th Century Fox. Check out my projects below!
RIVER and BOONE Leave Babcock
Academy Nicholl Fellowship Top 10%
Two Appalachian hiking guides at Babcock State Park, West Virginia, embark on a tumultuous journey from coal country to the Ivy League after one of them falls for a hiker passing through.
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Yellowstoned!
Following the untimely news of his parents’ divorce, 10-year-old Mason embarks on a cross-country river adventure with two childhood friends from Yellowstone, Wyoming to Dollywood, Tennessee. National Lampoon’s Vacation meets Deliverance.
TUG FORK
Winner: Red + Blue Writing Competition
Selected by:
—Rich Ross (former Chairman, Walt Disney Studios)
—Todd Lieberman (owner, Mandeville Films)
—Jordan Rodnizki (Netflix)
—Josh Goldsmith (writer, 13 Going on 30)
After a coal mine collapse nearly claims his life, an injured West Virginia teenager becomes the next target of a pattern killer who preys on newborns, teenagers, and adults-- but not children.
GENRE: Thriller/Psychological
COMMENTS:
"An impressively tense and atmospheric genre exercise, this horror/thriller allegory is chilling and very well executed – reminiscent in some respects to Nick Antosca’s spec screenplay for ANTLERS. The protagonist Jacob is highly believable and emotionally layered, and his slow descent into the addiction that claimed his mother and best friend is subtle enough not to reveal its cards too quickly. The encounters with the shadowy “killer”, in which the figure mirrors our characters’ movements in the dark of the woods, are genuinely very scary. While the film is generally somewhat arthouse as a horror film in the A24 vein, these encounters feel highly commercial in their scare quotient; the deft navigating of prestige and commercial tones here is very mature and suggests immense promise in this genre’s space."
—Jordan Rodnizki (Netflix)
"This script takes a metaphor and reimagines it as a deeply felt character piece. [Protagonist] is a life worn character for someone of his age, but his journey is powerful and understandable and his vulnerabilities clear."
—Rich Ross (former Chairman, Walt Disney Studios)
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
It's been over 40 years since "Animal House," and an update is long overdue.
When a freshman pledge transfers chapters, all-out-warfare erupts between a middle-tier, average fraternity and a wealthy, European fraternity.
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+ University of Pennsylvania's Creative Venture Capital Award Winner
Status: Feature screenplay + novel completed.
