Writing

Before anything else I do for money or creative satisfaction, I am a writer. My primary focus is on screenwriting but I have worked across a number of media and continue to do so – I believe strongly in telling a story in the form for which it is best suited.

Some selected credits and achievements:

FILM

Queen Lara – Feature Film – Comedy
Purchased by Room 9 Entertainment (Thank You For Smoking, Dumbstruck) and presently in development

7 Red – Feature Film – Thriller
Optioned by producer Branon Coluccio (The Condemned), and presently packaged and entering the fundraising stage

Wish I Were Here – Feature Film Story (screenplay by Scott Lipanovich) – Family Drama
Optioned by producer/director Arthur Allen Seidelman (The Sisters), and presently in development

Samantha Gets Back Out There – Short Film – Drama
In preparation for production and submission to festivals in 2012

STAGE

*Rights to all stage pieces are available for readings, workshops, or full productions*

Hotel Chicago – Full-Length Stage Play – Comedy
Produced in staged reading by Ghostlight Productions at The Complex Hollywood

Between 3 and 4 – One-Act Play – Comedy
Produced at the Hartmann Center Lab Theater

Christmas Pizza – 10-Minute Play
Premiere production by Hogmanay Productions in their showcase The 12 Plays of Christmas

A Night Just Like Tonight – 10-Minute Play
Produced at Sacred Fools Theater Company in their Serial Killers showcase

My Night Gets Worse From Here – 10-Minute Play
Produced at Sacred Fools Theater Company in their Serial Killers showcase

Captain Mom – 10-Minute Play
Produced at Sacred Fools Theater Company in their Fast & Loose showcase

Acne and Braces and Frizz, Oh My! – 10-Minute Play
Produced in workshop at the Hartmann Center Lab Theater

Self-Sealing No. 10 – 10-Minute Play
Produced in workshop at the Hartmann Center Lab Theater

The Jersey Kid – 10-Minute Play
Produced in workshop at the Hartmann Center Lab Theater

A Point of Honor – 10-Minute Play
Currently semi-finalist at Lakeshore Players Theatre’s 8th annual 10-minute play contest. Finalists to be announced in March 2012.

PROSE

Tourist Trap – Short Story
Published by the literary quarterly Paradigm

The Culling of the Beige – Short Story
Published by the literary quarterly Blood Lotus Journal

JOURNALISM

I have published articles relating to arts and entertainment, travel, and sustainability issues in the Peoria daily newspaper The Peoria Journal-Star, the Southern California lifestyle magazine Inside Look, Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s web publication CS Weekly, and the startup web magazine Kyoto Planet. And my development as a writer really began in the hundreds of articles I proudly published in my college weekly, The Bradley Scout.

FREELANCE

I have produced content for numerous corporate and private clients in the form of newsletters, website copy, customer communications, sales scripts, and training films, as well as providing freelance editing and ghost-writing services to writers, editors, and start-ups.

EDUCATION
BA cum laude in Theatre Performance with Global Scholar Option, Bradley University

HONORS
Fellowship, National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center

AFFILIATIONS
Member, Writers Guild of America