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Screenwriting

Currently Nominated for Zero Academy Awards and Zero Emmys

Smoke and Mirrors

Hour Series -- Comedy, Supernatural

It’s 1871 in Chicago, and Hugo has inherited two things from his father: a vast fortune, and the ability to speak to the dead. After Hugo’s hedonistic lifestyle leaves him penniless, he’s left to freeze on the streets with a skeptical burlesque dancer and three ghosts as his only friends. Together they form a séance vaudeville act, where they have to connect restless spirits with their fickle living relatives.

Ernest Livingston and the Night's Ichor Diamond

Podcast -- Comedy, Adventure

Radio serial-esque, turn-of-the-century adventurer Ernest Livingston discovers a mysterious diamond that curses all who touch it. Now, strange demons are after Ernest and his business partner, Malak Sharif, and they won’t stop until Ernest and Malak are dead. The duo’s only hope of breaking the curse is to retrieve the diamond from its buyer, which takes them on a globe-trotting adventure to avoid death by demons. Which aren’t actually demons.

They’re dinosaurs.

Creature Quest

Half Hour Series -- Dramedy

After her mother's mysterious disappearance as a child, Cassie became convinced that she was stolen by the Dogman, a legendary beast of her tiny Michigan town. With the help of her skeptical younger sister and two best friends, Cassie pursues unexplained occurrences, cryptids, and cover-ups in pursuit of the Dogman, all the while struggling to tell the difference between belief and delusion.

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The Tragedie of
Mackenzie-Beth

Feature -- Comedy, Thriller

In the high-stakes world of pre-professional ballet, everyone would die to be the studio's Prima, but only one girl would kill for it. Mackenzie-Beth (Mack) has a history of being second best, but after overhearing the dance moms gossiping about her finally landing the lead, her ambition takes over. Mack ascends to Prima and harasses, kneecaps, and second-degree murders anyone who gets in her way. The only one who can stop Mack's tyranny is the studio's newest nobody, Duffy.

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