I am a “cross-platform showrunner,” filmmaker, and creative leader with experience in feature, episodic, location-based, and video game formats.

Working in various capacities for Tom Hanks’ and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone, I supported development and production efforts across the company's slate of film and TV projects. While there, I led expansion into new media resulting in the dramatic animated series, Electric City (Streamy winner, best animated series) which I co-wrote and produced with Tom Hanks.

I subsequently began a multi-year relationship with Microsoft and Xbox Studios. I served as one of the executive producers for the Emmy-nominated digital film, Forward Unto Dawn, the first feature-length, live action narrative for the Halo video game franchise. I then produced a live action/game prototype and story bible for Microsoft and Remedy Entertainment's hybrid game/series, Quantum Break.

Becoming a vice president of original content at Microsoft, I worked on multiple well-known Xbox intellectual properties as well as new formats such as Every Street United, a global soccer competition series. I also co-executive produced the follow-up film, Halo: Nightfall from Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions.

For Telltale Games, an industry leader in episodic branching narrative games, I ran writers’ rooms across the studio’s full slate of renowned IP licenses including The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Guardians of the Galaxy, Minecraft, and Batman. I now lead creative conferences, writers’ rooms, and ideation sessions for a variety of gaming and media companies looking to break storylines and create narrative extensions across platforms.

I produced an original documentary series for Twitch and the Overwatch League, show-ran and directed an original scripted podcast for Spotify and Halo, and wrote/produced/directed documentary content for the Prince estate and Paisley Park.

I began my entertainment career in marketing and feature production at DreamWorks.

Additionally, I teach a graduate class on the evolution of cross-platform storytelling in the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. I previously taught at UCLA.

My undergraduate degree is in cinema from Ithaca College, and I have a master’s degree in writing from the University of Southern California.

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