Selected writing + creative work
Work.
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Original Television
Moving Barges
A Canadian student’s summer job on a Chicago towboat pulls him into a drug crew and murder investigation, forcing him to choose between his future and his life.
READ SCRIPT ↗EV1
When an underutilized engineer, haunted by past failures, sets out to create the first commercially viable electric vehicle, he must navigate the turbulent clash between relentless innovators, cost-cutting corporateers, and LA’s 1990s eco-progressives — in a ride that might cost him his family, his career, and his legacy.
- ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition — Quarterfinalist
- Austin Film Festival — Second Rounder
Uncanny
A struggling actress with C-PTSD returns home to care for her aunt with dementia, only to witness a kidnapping no one believes happened and join forces with the teenage boy who may be the only person who saw it too.
READ SCRIPT ↗Vertical Drama
Oops, I Married My Bestie's Brother
On her 30th birthday, Elle escapes to Vegas for a blind date—only to accidentally marry a man who, unbeknownst to her, is her best friend’s wealthy older brother and has been in love with her for months.
- 210 million views within 10 days of release
- S+ title
- Streamed on FlareFlow and sold to TikTok
99 Charms for 99 Heartbreaks
A singer-songwriter puts her own career on hold to help her husband build his instead. After the 99th time he takes her for granted, she decides to set out on her own.
- 2025 International Short Drama Awards nominee
- Official Selection — LA Vertical Fest 2026
Sorority Heiress Takes Her Throne
Swapped at birth, a ruthless outsider infiltrates her school's most elite sorority to battle the queen bee who stole her life. In a Greek Life war, social capital decides who inherits a billion-dollar empire.
WATCH ↗Star Surge
In the energy-starved dystopian nation of Aurelia, a gifted girl from the poorest Sector enters Star Surge, a brutal televised singing competition where performers fight for fame, survival, and citizenship. When she discovers the government is harvesting emotional energy from contestants and audiences, she must choose between becoming Aurelia's next manufactured superstar or destroying the system before it destroys everyone she loves.
WATCH ↗Chosen by Fate, Rejected by the Alpha
LAs 18-year-old werewolf Trinity struggles to demonstrate her powers, she faces scorn from her pack. She seems destined for exile…until she meets the Alpha who unexpectedly imprints on her, thrusting them into an enemies-to-lovers romance.
WATCH ↗Rekindle Heartache
Five years after a sudden, unexplained breakup, Zoey runs into the man she never stopped loving. Her ex Blaine becomes a doctor at the hospital treating her young son for leukemia—unaware that his powerful mother once tried to kill Zoey to erase her from his life, and that the child he’s growing attached to may be his.
WATCH ↗Film & Documentary
The Flower Pot
A mini documentary series shot and created in collaboration with The Flower Pot founder Rebecca Kershberg.
Lonely in the Dusk
Set in the 1950s, when queerness was condemned, pathologized, and criminalized, a deaf woman falls in love with a person of the same sex. Written in collaboration with Jacky Song.
RecognitionOfficial Selection — Newport Beach Film Festival
WATCH TRAILER ↗His Party
Created with director Brynn Bodair, this experimental short uses 1950s-coded costuming and movement motifs to challenge gender constructs that echo into the present.
RecognitionOfficial Selection — Los Angeles Experimental Dance & Music Film Festival
WATCH TRAILER ↗Podcasts & Media
+ more projects from the archive
- Hache Carillo — The Podglomerate
- Book Bans: The History — The Podglomerate
- IP Disputes: Dungeons & Dragons — The Podglomerate
- IP Disputes: Copyright & Fanfiction — The Podglomerate
- Colleen Hoover — The Podglomerate
- Female Criminals: Stephanie Lazarus, Part 1 — Spotify
- Female Criminals: Stephanie Lazarus, Part 2 — Spotify
- Con-Artists: Lou Pearlman, Pt. 2 — Spotify
- Medical Murders: Shiro Ishii, Part 1 — Spotify
- Medical Murders: Shiro Ishii, Part 2 — Spotify
- Haunted Places: Carlile House — Spotify
- Medical Murders: Harry Bailey, Part 1 — Spotify
- Medical Murders: Harry Bailey, Part 2 — Spotify
- Medical Murders: Elizabeth Wettlaufer, Part 1 — Spotify
- Medical Murders: Elizabeth Wettlaufer, Part 2 — Spotify
- Killer Patients Special: Stanwood Elkus — Spotify
- Killer Patients Special: Hans Peterson — Spotify
- Conspiracy Theories: HAARP, Part 1 — Spotify
- Conspiracy Theories: HAARP, Part 2 — Spotify
- Crimes of Passion: Lady Diana, Part 1 — Spotify
- Crimes of Passion: Lady Diana, Part 3 — Spotify
- Cults: Yoga Special — Spotify
- Cults: The Magnificat Meal Movement, Part 1 — Spotify
- Cults: The Magnificat Meal Movement, Part 2 — Spotify
- Women of Device Problems Lobby for the Medical Device Safety Act — MedTruth
- Chronicon: The Light of Connection in Chronic Illness — MedTruth
- Friday Film: Heal — MedTruth