I am an actor, writer, producer and director. As an actor, I have appeared in films such as Adventureland and Since I Don’t Have You. Television roles include Polly on season two of WGN America’s Outsiders and Theresa Malone in NBC Universal’s Gone.
I have written and produced several short movies including the award-winning romantic comedy Lightheaded, which I also acted in. I directed Hand Me Downs, the only film selected to screen at the 2016 SWAN Day Pittsburgh festival. Happy Birthday to Me, which I directed, won best film and four other awards at the 2016 Pittsburgh 48 Hour Film Festival. I also directed 2017’s This is How We Roll and 2019's Uninvited Guests. I am president of the production company 13 Films, vice president of Carnegie Screenwriters and on the board of Women in Film and Media Pittsburgh. I am also associate director of Film Pittsburgh.
Turtle Island
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Film
Actress
Room with a View
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Film
Actress
Uninvited Guests
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Film
Director
Lucid Nation
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Film
Actress
Catch
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Film
Producer
Frozen in Terror
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Film
Producer
#Trending
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TV Movie
Producer
Gone
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Television
(Crime and Drama)
Actress The survivor of a famous child-abduction case joins a special task force dedicated to solving abductions and missing person cases.
Mulligan
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TV Movie
(Drama)
Producer Upon release from a two year stint in jail, a fallen golf prodigy accepts a job at his brother's Driving Range and Miniature Golf Course, finding himself at the confluence of his past, present, and future.
Outsiders
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Television
(Drama)
Actress A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, "Outsiders" tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary. Written by WGN America
200 Ft.
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Film
(Documentary)
Producer Add a Plot »
This is How We Roll
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Film
(Short and Comedy)
Director A mockumentary in which a family of Yhatzee champions prepares for the upcoming World Series, unaware that the league's health inspector may be their toughest opponent
Power Play
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Film
(Short and Thriller)
Producer Sharon wakes up in the middle of the night to find her husband gone. A mysterious phone call reveals he's been kidnapped. If she doesn't steal a nuclear scientist's ID badge by dawn, her husband dies.
Happy Birthday to Me
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Film
(Short and Sci-Fi)
Director Add a Plot »
Hand Me Downs
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Film
(Short)
Director Add a Plot »
Inheritance
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Film (short)
by Barak Shpiez (Drama, Mystery and Thriller)
Actress Waiting out his last few years, Jim Novak is haunted by people he has hurt and betrayed. As he confronts his sins from the past the threat against him becomes dangerously real.
Breakage
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Film (short)
by Steve Parys (Drama and Romance)
Producer Ally Kent is assaulted by flashbacks of her entire relationship with Frank Brown, her ex-boyfriend, at a pivotal moment in her life.
Transience
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Film (short)
by Ian Altenbaugh (Thriller)
Producer A mysterious man awakens to find himself covered in blood and with no memory of who he is.
Zombie Woman
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Film
(Short and Horror)
Producer Hannah was bitten by a zombie and goes "missing" at the start of a zombie apocalypse. After twenty five years of ripping people's throats out, she is cured of her disease and reunited with her husband and now grown daughter. Hannah must now come to terms with the choices she made as a zombie. Unfortunately, her reclaimed humanity proves to be brief, she begins to regress back. Will Hannah be able to control her zombie impulses or become a killing machine?
Lost Dog
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Film
(Short and Horror)
Writer Add a Plot »
Lightheaded
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Film (short)
by Steve Parys (Comedy and Romance)
Actress, Producer, Writer A lonely woman finds there's more to life than work and ice cream thanks to a guardian angel on temporary assignment.
A New World
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Film
Makeup Department
Since I Don't Have You
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Film
by Winter Morning Pictures
School Secretary
Adventureland
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Film
by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Eric's Mother
About Half Empty
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Film (short)
by Shawn Bronson
Margie Sutherland
The Kill Point
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Television
by Lionsgate
Ashley's Mother (episode: The Devil's Zoo)
Mary and Joe
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Film
by John R. Hamilton
Actress What if Jesus were born in the year 2002 to a young Jewish couple in New York City, instead of Bethlehem two millennia ago? Mary is an 18-year-old high school senior, and Joe, her fiancé, is 23, working hard to get Techweb established as an Internet consulting firm. Would anyone believe Mary and Joe's claim to abstinence? What kind of advice would they receive from family, friends, neighbors, and folks at the corner deli? Spurning her mother's insistence that she get on with her life, Mary is thrown out of the house, rejected by Joe, and expelled from school as she grows larger with child. Her family doctor is baffled; his examination reveals her story to be true! Mary goes to live with her beautician cousin in a crowded apartment, and begins to lose heart. But a sassy Hispanic angel in a Mets cap and jacket wrestles Joe in an alleyway and makes him listen to the divine message of the miraculous, "Fear Not." The couple is reunited and together face a hostile and unbelieving world. ... Written by Del Rey Communications
The Assassination File
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TV Movie
by John Harrison (Action, Drama and Thriller)
Actress An ex-FBI agent gradually uncovers the nature of a conspiracy behind the death of a black presidential candidate.
A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story
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TV Movie
by Charles Jarrott (Drama, Sport and Biography)
Actress Based on the life of the Olympic figure skater.
Audience Choice Award - Carnegie Screenwriters Script and Screen Festival
(2017)
Audience Choice Award, Best Short Film - Shire International Short Film Festival (Sydney, Australia)
(2016)
Online Award Winner - Las Vegas Lift-Off Film Festival Online
(2016)
Audience Choice Award, Best Short Film - Reel Sydney Festival of World Cinema
(2015)
Award of Merit Special Mention - Best Shorts Competition
(2015)
University of Pittsburgh
(1982-1986)