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

• Directed by D. Smith
• Produced by D. Smith, Harris Doran, Bill Butler
• Executive Produced by Stacy Barthe, William Melillo, Rishi Rajani, Lena Waithe
• World Premiere in the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
• International Premiere in the 2023 Berlin 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

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

• Starring DDm,  Kara Young (Tony Nomination Clyde's) and Catherine Curtin
• Produced by Doris Casap, Harris Doran, James A. Burkhalter, Haley Geffen
• Sundance Film Festival 2022 premiere (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

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

SCREENPLAYS/TELEPLAYS

• ATTICUS BROWN IS STILL HERE (narrative feature) Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, Sundance (second round), Tribeca (finalist), Hamptons (finalist) Sloan Grant
• COG (narrative feature) Academy Nicholl Fellowship (quarterfinalist) 
• FOUR GAYS AND A BABY (narrative feature) Outfest Screenwriting Lab (finalist), Sundance Lab (second round)
• IN THE WAKE (narrative feature) Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition (semifinalist) 
• MAZEL BITCH (pilot) co-writer Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, Sundance Episodic Lab (second round)
• REVELATIONISTS (episodic spec)
• SECOND ACTS (narrative feature)
• TONE-DEAF (narrative feature) Quarterfinalist CineStory, ScreenCraft
• AN UNOFFICIAL OF MICE & MEN REMAKE (narrative feature)
• WASP WOMAN (narrative feature) film adaptation of the stage musical

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

• 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)

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

• Nantucket Screenwriters Colony Alumni Committee 

• 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