FILM/VIDEO
Writing/directing
Our Lady Of The Snow, in development now with AGX and Sweet 180
#WaynesvilleStrong, short (IMDB Festival winner)
Spring Forward, feature, IFC films (awards from Toronto and Texas FF)
The Cold Lands, feature, Cinereach (Berlinale 2015 opening weekend)
Touch Base, short (awards from Florida and Texas FF)
Mr. Sycamore, short
It Happened Today, short (collaboration with REM)
Love Knows No Color, short (C-Hundred Film Corp/MTV)
The Cold Lands Series, seven collaborations w/musicians (Salon exclusive)
Writing
Star Of The Sea, in development with Sibs Productions
Desperation Angels, optioned by Michael Stipe and Oliver Stone
Location, optioned by Journeyman Films and HBO (Sundance/BAM staged reading)
Bad Muslim (w/Ghazi Albuliwi), optioned by HBO and ThisIsThat
Five Minute Major (w/Katherine Dieckmann), optioned by Robert Longo
It’s A Beautiful Day, optioned by Applehead Pictures
Civilized, (TV Pilot) optioned by Archangela Productions/Michael Imperioli
Shoot That Clown (w/David Burris), optioned by Cineblast!
A Stray Cat, in development
Heaven, (short, dir Beth Schacter)
Everybody Hurts, Stand, (REM videos; co-writer)
ATTACHED
The Unlit Road, (director), written by Pamela Sneed
THEATER
Sugar Cane And Coffee Cup (director, written and performed with Michael Stipe) P.S.122
Machine Full (theatre company, writer/director/actor)
Incident At Vichy (Arthur Miller)
American Lesion
Halcion Days
Witch’s Tit
A Candle in the Window
The Invisible Hand
Hamlet (theatre/video, The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival)
Wake Up World (director/writer) a weekly live show created by Lizz Winstead (2 years)
Nine Ten (The 24 Hour Plays, written by Warren Leight), director
FELLOWSHIPS
Three-time MacDowell Fellow
Recipient of the 2015 Kenneth Rainin Screenwriting Grant from the SF Film Society
Recipient of The McGee Chair For Filmmaking, Davidson College
Two-time Sundance Lab Fellow
One-time Djerassi Colony Fellow
TEACHING/MENTORING
Columbia University, Film Department (graduate level)
5 semesters of master class ‘Write, Rehearse, Revise’
1 semester of Directing IV
Sundance Lab Mentor
Sundance Screenwriting Lab Admissions Reader
Hamptons Film Festival Screenwriting Lab Mentor
The New School, guest lecturer, screenwriting
NYU/Tisch, guest lecturer, collaborative arts/filmmaking
Long Island University, guest lecturer, filmmaking process/career overview
One-On-One Studio, teaching ‘The 6 C’s’ (script structure for actors)
