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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
• Indy Shorts

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
• WINNER: Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival co-produced by MoPOP (Museum Of Pop Culture) and SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival), 2nd Place Jury Award
• International Premiere Inside Out Film Festival
• Hollyshorts Film Festival
• NewFest
• 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

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

SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED: THE NYC SESSIONS Volume III (performer)

• 2024 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• 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)
• San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
• New York Musical Theatre Festival

• Nantucket Screenwriters Colony Alumni Committee 

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

• 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