My passion is split absurdly between comedy screenwriting (very funny!) and social justice documentary films (much less funny). But the binding theme is human vulnerability. I don’t see these two sides of myself as disparate or competing. I see them as complementary and whole.

My comedic scripts explore this vulnerability—find grace, big laughs, relief, and humanity in it. My documentary work holds vulnerability up as an empathy amplifier—an invitation to broaden our lives’ ambitions to include safety and freedom from suffering for all.

I’ve worn all hats as a writer, creative producer, and post-producer. I’ve shaped story arcs for hard-to-please networks, shape-shifted as a soup-to-nuts producer crafting story in development as well as in the field, and worked on “impact producing” teams (creating engagement/education campaigns for maximum good) for the Brazilian suicide memoir ELENA, teen feminist flick THE SISTERHOOD OF NIGHT, and the Morgan Freeman-produced cancer exposé THE C WORD.

My first passion is comedy writing, and all of my scripts (even the dark, trippy ones) find their footing in humor. My first narrative feature, SORRY, THANKS—an “unromantic comedy” about casual douchebaggery—world-premiered at SXSW 2009, played 15 festivals internationally, and was acquired by IFC and Sundance Channel in 2010, where it still airs. Beyond screenwriting, I’ve worked as a documentary film producer and consultant, almost exclusively on social justice focused films, partnering nearly every time with badass female directors.

My doc projects have illuminated the harrowing obstacles facing teenage foster children in search of families before they “time out” of the foster system, Black transgenerational trauma inheritance, and the uniquely American catastrophe that is female incarceration. I have overseen production for multiple doc series/specials for MTV, Sundance Channel, Discovery, and created the BE THE HERO series for MAKERS.com (which found 5 million+ viewers). A source of special pride to me is the hybrid comedy-doc series LITTLE G—which intimately follows a bipartisan real-life Mayor’s office—on which I was brought on as Development/Comedy Consultant and helped conceptualize. In 2020, LITTLE G attached Conan O’Brien’s company Conaco to the project.

I am committed to creating and supporting content that is emotionally kinetic, female-focused, speaks truth to power, and champions our common humanity.