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DIRECTOR | WRITER | PRODUCER | EDITOR

PORELESS (narrative short film) writer | director | producer | editor (2025)

  • written by Harris Doran and Fawzia Mirza
  • produced by Harris Doran, Akbar Hamid, Fawzia Mirza, Rabia Sultana 
  • Starring Akbar Hamid, Allyce Beasley, Parvesh Cheena, Gia Crovatin, Diane Guerrero, Lucy Owen, Sophie von Haselberg, Sureni Weerasekera
  • cinematography by Bill Kirstein 
  • Special Mention: Frameline Completion Fund
  • World Premiere: Aspen ShortsFest
  • International Premiere: Inside Out Film Festival
  • NY Premiere: Tribeca Film Festival
  • Bentonville Film Festival
  • Frameline


RAVEL (narrative short film) director | editor (2025)

  • commissioned for the Juilliard 4th Year Drama Class
  • written by Chelsea Marcantel 
  • in Post-Production


8 MINUTES 20 SECONDS  (narrative short film) writer | director | producer | editor (2024)

  • Starring Brandon Uranowitz (Tony Award winner), Ato Blankson-Wood (Tony nominee), Allyce Beasley (2x Emmy nominee), Julia Chan, Steve Cirbus, Nadia Quinn
  • Produced by Trent Anderson, Harris Doran, Carl Moellenberg
  • EPs Adam Maffei, Jamin O'Brien
  • World Premiere Aspen ShortsFest
  • NOMINATED: Atlanta Film Festival, Best Short Film
  • International Premiere Inside Out Film Festival
  • Hollyshorts Film Festival
  • NewFest
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival co-produced by MoPOP (Museum Of Pop Culture) and SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival)
  • The film is showing on Omeleto
  • The film will be exhibited at MoPOP (Museum Of Pop Culture) for a year beginning June 2025


KOKOMO CITY (documentary feature film) producer | technical editor (2023)

  • Directed by D. Smith
  • Produced by D. Smith, Harris Doran, Bill Butler
  • Executive Produced by Lena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, Stacy Barthe, William Melillo
  • World Premiere 2023 Sundance Film Festival
  • International Premiere 2023 Berlin International Film Festival | Berlinale Panorama
  • Distributed by Magnolia Pictures | In Theaters Summer 2023
  • WINNER: Sundance Film Festival NEXT Innovator Award
  • WINNER: Sundance Film Festival Audience Award
  • WINNER: Berlinale Panorama Audience Award
  • WINNER: Milwaukee Film Festival Special Jury Mention
  • WINNER: TRANSlations' Jury Award Best Documentary Feature
  • WINNER: OUTshine Film Festival Audience Award Best Documentary
  • WINNER: Chicago Critics Film Festival | Rotten Tomatoes Audience Award
  • WINNER: Docaviv Film Festival Best International Documentary
  • WINNER: XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin Audience Award 
  • WINNER: Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Prix de la Critique, Long métrage américain
  • WINNER: Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Prix du jury, Longs métrages américains
  • WINNER: Newark Black Film Festival Best Long Documentary
  • WINNER: Sidewalk Film Festival, Best Shout Feature Film
  • WINNER: Queer Lisboa, Audience Award Best Documentary
  • WINNER: OUT at the Movies, Jury Award Best Documentary Feature
  • WINNER: OUT at the Movies, Audience Award Best Documentary Feature
  • WINNER: Film Club's The Lost Weekend Award, Avant Robot Award
  • WINNER: Cinema Eye Documentary Honors, The Unforgettables Honor 
  • WINNER: Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, Best Documentary
  • WINNER: Indiana Film Journalists Association, Best Documentary


  • NOMINATED: Film Independent Spirit Awards: Best Documentary
  • NOMINATED: Cinema Eye Documentary Honors: Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Cinematography, Outstanding Sound Design, Outstanding Debut
  • NOMINATED: Black Reel Awards: Best Documentary, Cinematography, and Editing
  • NOMINATED: Critics Choice Documentary Awards: Best Documentary Feature, Best First Documentary Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Score
  • NOMINATED: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Documentary
  • NOMINATED: Florida Film Critics Awards: FFCC Award Best Documentary, Golden Orange Award
  • NOMINATED: Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards: Best Documentary 
  • NOMINATED: San Diego Film Critics Society Awards: Best Documentary 


BRENDA AND BILLY (AND THE POTHOS PLANT) (short film) producer (2023)

  • Written/Directed by Dave Solomon
  • Starring Santino Fontana (Tony Award winner), Sarah Stiles (2-time Tony nominee), Catherine Curtin, Julie Halston, Beethovan Oden
  • World Premiere 2023 Tribeca Film Festival


F^¢K '€M R!GHT B@¢K (narrative short film) writer | director | producer | editor (2022)

  • Starring DDm,  2024 Tony Award winner Kara Young, and Catherine Curtin
  • Produced by Doris Casap, Harris Doran, James A. Burkhalter, Haley Geffen
  • World Premiere 2022 Sundance Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize nomination)
  • WINNER: Aspen Shortsfest Jury Prize Best Comedy (Oscar qualifying)
  • WINNER: Tallgrass Film Festival Jury Prize Best Ensemble Cast
  • WINNER: Indie Memphis Film Festival Audience Award  Narrative Short 
  • WINNER: Florida Film Festival Special Jury Award for "Comedic Storytelling"
  • WINNER: Milwaukee Film Festival Shorts Jury Award Special Mention
  • WINNER: deadCenter Film Festival Best Pride Short
  • WINNER: Over-the-Rhine Film Festival Best Narrative Short
  • WINNER: Black Alphabet Film Festival Audience Award Best Short Film
  • The film was acquired by and is showing on Showtime/Paramount+
  • Vimeo Staff Pick


BETROTHED (play) director (2022)

  • starring Tim Daly, Amy Hargreaves, David Hull, and Louisa Jacobson 
  • A new play by Mario Correa 
  • The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway (Town Hall)


WE, THE INNUMERABLE (opera) director (2022)

  • Music by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Libretto by Lisa Flanagan 
  • Presented by National Sawdust and Center for Contemporary Opera


I SEE YOU AND YOU SEE ME (film/theatre hybrid feature film) writer | director | producer | editor (2021)

  • Created for Queens Theatre
  • Distributed by PBS/Thirteen/WNET


FIDELITY (play) director (2021)

  • Starring Julia Chan, Amy Hargreaves, Russell G. Jones
  • A new play by Michael Mitnick
  • The 24 Hour Plays Gala


GHOSTWRITER (podcast movie) editor (2021)

  • Starring Kate Mara and Adam Scott
  • C13Features and Best Case Studios
  • Directed by Kimberly Senior, written by Alix Sobler
  • #1 Fiction Podcast/Top 10 of all Podcasts on Apple Podcasts


WHITE HORSE TAVERN (pilot)  production designer (2021)

  • Written and directed by Seth Green
  • Stoopid Buddy Stoodios


BLEEDING LOVE (podcast musical) lyricist | director | producer | editor (2020)

  • Starring Sarah Stiles, Annie Golden, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Marc Kudisch, Taylor Trensch, Tony Vincent
  • Broadway Podcast Network, produced by Kent Nicholson, Katie Rosin, Steve Saporito
  • Stage version developed at Goodspeed, National Alliance Music Theatre, multiple productions 
  • iTunes Top US Performing Arts Podcast


THE IVANKA DIARIES (narrative webseries) writer | director | producer | editor (2020)


WASP WOMAN (stage musical) director | bookwriter | lyricist (2020)

  • Staged reading at the Professional Conservatory of Musical Theatre at NYFA 


NEW YORK TRANSGENDER ADVOCACY GROUP (political video series) director | producer | editor (2018)

  • “Know Your Rights” campaign


ULTRA-MILLIONAIRE’S TAX (political video) producer (2018)

  • Starring Abigail Disney
  • Creative Resistance 


BEAUTY MARK (narrative feature film) writer | director | producer | editor (2017)

  • Starring Auden Thornton, Catherine Curtin, Laura Bell Bundy, Jeff Kober, Deirdre Lovejoy, Madison Iseman
  • WINNER: LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL: Special Jury Prize “Breakout Performance” 
  • NOMINATED: Best U.S. Fiction Film
  • WINNER: WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL: Best Ultra Indie Film Award
  • WINNER: AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL: Audience Award Best Narrative Feature
  • WINNER: SAN LUIS OBISPO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Best Narrative Feature Film
  • WINNER: SENE FILM, MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL: Best Feature Film & Best Actress
  • SHORTLISTED: FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS: Someone To Watch Award 
  • Distributed by The Orchard


BROADWAY BLUE WAVE FOR NEW YORK (political concert) writer | producer (2017)

  • Directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin
  • starring Edie Falco, Cynthia Nixon, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Laura Benanti, MJ Rodriguez, et al.


THE MUTINEER (narrative feature film) associate producer (2017)


I LOVE YOU… BUT I LIED (narrative TV series) series writer (2016)

  • Lifetime TV 


THIS MOVIE WILL GET INTO SUNDANCE (narrative/doc feature film) writer | director | producer | editor (2015)

  • writer/director debut feature film


HAPPY LUCKY GOLDEN TOFU PANDA DRAGON GOOD TIME FUN FUN SHOW (stage show) director (2015)

  • Co-Directed with Carrie Preston
  • Written and performed by Kate Rigg & Lyris Hung 
  • La MaMa ETC


PHOTO OP (narrative short film) producer (2015)

  • Starring Randy Harrison
  • Directed by Dave Solomon
  • WINNER: SENE Film Music & Art Festival: Best LGBT Short Film


RE-ENACT (narrative TV show) series writer (2015)

  • TWIST


THE STORY OF MILO & ANNIE (narrative short film) writer | director | producer (2014)

  • Starring Cathy Moriarty, Alysia Reiner, Marsha Stephanie Blake
  • WINNER: Indie Memphis Film Festival: Best Short
  • writer/director debut short film


SALVAGE (stage musical) director | bookwriter | lyricist (2009)

  • Starring Bryce Ryness, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Tituss Burgess
  • Staged Reading at New World Stages

ADDITIONAL WRITING

SCREENPLAYS/TELEPLAYS

  • AI STAR IS BORN (narrative feature) sci-fi/thriller/horror
  • ASHES TO IRON (narrative feature) historical thriller, commissioned based on J.E. Laufer's novel "Choices" 
  • ATTICUS BROWN IS STILL HERE (narrative feature) coming of age/sci-fi, Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, Sundance (second round), Tribeca (finalist), Hamptons (finalist) Sloan Grant
  • THE BINDING (narrative feature) horror
  • COG (narrative feature) comedy, Academy Nicholl Fellowship (quarterfinalist) 
  • FOUR GAYS AND A BABY (narrative feature) comedy, Outfest Screenwriting Lab (finalist), Sundance Lab (second round)
  • IN THE WAKE (narrative feature) comedy-drama, Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition (semifinalist) 
  • MAZEL BITCH (pilot) comedy, co-writer Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, Sundance Episodic Lab (second round)
  • THE REVELATIONISTS (episodic spec) sci-fi/thriller
  • SECOND ACTS (narrative feature) comedy
  • TONE-DEAF (narrative feature) comedy/musical, Quarterfinalist CineStory, ScreenCraft
  • AN UNOFFICIAL OF MICE & MEN REMAKE (narrative feature) comedy 
  • WASP WOMAN (narrative feature) comedy/musical, film adaptation of the stage musical
  • WEDDING PEOPLE (narrative feature) comedy


SONGWRITING

FALLING AWAY (lyrics) lead single from Marion Raven's album "Set Me Free" 

  • Co-written with Marion Raven, Freddy Wexler, Arthur Lafrentz Bacon
  • Top 10 European Billboards

GRAMMY NOMINATION

SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED: THE NYC SESSIONS Volume III (performer)

  • 2024 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

TEACHING

  • Columbia University, MFA Film (New York, NY), Adjunct Professor, Directing the Actor
  • Atlantic Theater Company Acting School (New York, NY), Filmmaking
  • New York Film Academy (New York, NY), First Year Acting, Improvisation, Acting for Film & Television 
  • Brooklyn Opera Works (Brooklyn, NY),  acting coach for opera singers
  • The School of The New York Times (New York, NY), Basics of Filmmaking
  • Point Park University, Acting Master Class
  • Film Independent (Los Angeles, CA), Future Filmmaker Mentorship Program
  • Private Performance Coach (New York, NY) Coaching for actors and politicians ( 20+ years)

JURIES

  • Woodstock Film Festival
  • aGLIFF (All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival)
  • San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
  • New York Musical Theatre Festival

COMMITTEES

  • Nantucket Screenwriters Colony Alumni Committee 

MUSEUMS

  • Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center: Film Curator
  • Museum Of Pop Culture: 8 Minutes 20 Seconds (on exhibition)

EDUCATION

  • The Juilliard School, Drama Division
  • Upright Citizens Brigade, Improvisation 
  • BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop
  • Fiorello H. La Guardia High School of Music & Art and The Performing Arts, Drama Department


  • Reel | Clips | Trailers
  • Kokomo City
  • F^¢k '€m R!ght B@¢k
  • Beauty Mark
  • 8 Minutes 20 Seconds
  • Poreless
  • Ravel
  • The Story of Milo & Annie
  • I See You and You See Me
  • The Ivanka Diaries
  • This Movie Will Sundance
  • Ghostwriter
  • Bleeding Love
  • we the innumerable
  • 24 Hour Plays Broadway
  • The 24 Hour Plays Gala
  • I Love You... But I Lied
  • photo op
  • Broadway Blue Wave For NY
  • Film/TV In Development
  • Stage Projects In Dev

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