Available for writing and photography work
I'm 25, I live in Los Angeles, and I'm three years out of undergrad and two out of an MFA. I taught screenwriting at UCLA while I was there. I have four original screenplays, a photography practice that pays the bills, and a lot of appetite. This site is the honest version: what I do, how I do it, what it costs.
The three things I do
The overlap is the actual pitch. I'm a writer who can also shoot, which means I think about a frame the way I think about a scene — what it's withholding, what it's telling you, what comes next.
Four original specs: two features, an hour-long thriller anthology and a half-hour comedy. I've written and produced a narrative short, co-written an award-winning episodic, and taught Introductory Screenwriting at UCLA four quarters running.
Concept, atmosphere, styling and narrative cohesion — I run it from pre-production and creative direction through final delivery. Head of Photography at Across the Line, and I shoot my own narrative series like The Getaway.
Twelve short films and six vertical series so far, plus poster imaging. Everything comes back processed for press, marketing and awards consideration — not a dump of raws for someone else to fix.
What I'm looking for
I'm at the stage where the most useful thing anyone can hand me is a job. Specifically, I'm looking for:
If you have a project and you're not sure which of those it is, email me and describe it in a paragraph. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person.
Scripts on the shelf
Loglines, comps and reading samples live on the writing page, which is password-protected. Here is what each one is, in the open.
Feature · Tár meets Amadeus
A composer, a competition and a rival who is better connected than he is. Logline behind the password.
Hour-long thriller anthology · Twilight Zone meets folklore
An anthology built out of urban legends, with a pilot that puts one of them somewhere very uncomfortable. Logline behind the password.
Half-hour comedy · Abbott Elementary meets Drumline
A mockumentary about Texas high school marching band, written from first-hand experience. Logline behind the password.
Feature · Blade Runner 2049 meets Vertigo
Grief, a second chance at love, and a machine that cannot quite do the job. Logline behind the password.
"She doesn't look like she ran. She looks like she won."
That's the last line of The Getaway, a photo series I wrote before I shot it. It's the clearest thing I can show you about how the two halves of my work feed each other — three acts, one character, no dialogue. The full case study walks through the three acts and what writing a photo series first actually changes.
Rates, plainly
I teach Digital Photography and art at St. Paul High School in Los Angeles, so weekday daytime shoots need planning ahead. Evenings, weekends and school holidays are open, and I travel — I've toured three seasons of national dance competitions. Writing work fits around all of it.
Los Angeles. Originally Dallas, Texas. Happy to travel for the right job; travel and lodging quoted separately.
Placeholder — specific delivery windows aren't published anywhere I can verify, so I quote them per job rather than guess here.