After receiving an undergraduate degree in theatre at the University of Iowa with an acting emphasis, he worked and taught professionally. He later went to Ringling Bros Barnum and Baily Clown College. And, still several years later he returned to school to get an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University. He then was fortunate enough to have a play of his run off-broadway, and still others produced at various theatres. Since then he has dedicated his available writing time to screenplays and he has some considerable recent success in contest and festivals with several different scripts as listed below:
Best Feature Script - bGone
Nov 2021 New York Movie Awards
Best Feature Script - bGone
Nov 2021 Hollywood Gold Awards
Winner - Barth
Oct 2021 Bright International Film Festival
Winner - Best sci Fi Fantasy Award of Prestige - Fresh Start Inc.
Oct 2021 Vegas Movie Awards
Winner - Barth
Sep 2021 Feel The Reel International Film Festival
Winner Best Short Script - Barth
Sep 2021 California Indies
Best Television screenplay - The Mr. Dave Show...Show
Jul 2021 Festigious Los Angeles
Winner - Jury Award - The Mr. Dave Show... Show.
Jul 2021 Los Angles Film Awards
Winner - Special Jury Award - Mr. Dave Show…Show
Jul 2021 Filmcon Awards
Winner Best Short script - The Mr. Dave Show...Show
Jul 2021 New York International Film Awards™ - NYIFA
Winner TV script - Clubfit-less
Jan 2021 Best Script Award
Winner - Barth
2021 New York Movie Awards
Finalist - - The Trouble w/ Being
Sep 2020 Page Turner Screenplays
Winner - Best TV Script - The Mr. Dave Show...Show
Sep 2020 - Festigious
2nd Place Winner - Curb Your Enthusiasm Tantra Schmantra - Aug 2020
Aug 2020 Scriptapalooza TV Writing Contest
Finalist - The Mr. Dave Show... Show Screen Power Film Festival
Aug 2020 Screen Power Film Festival
Winner - Curb Your Enthusiasm - Tantra Schmantra
Apr 2020 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Contest -TV Writing Sample
Finalist - Honorable Mention - Clubfit-less
Mar 2020 WriteMovies -Romance and Comedy Award
Finalist - bGone
Feb 2020 Red Flight Pictures Screenplay Awards
Finalist - Honorable Mention - bGone
2019 Los Angeles Film & Script Festival
Finalist - Nominated Best Script - The Trouble w/Being
2019 Lucky Strike Films Festival
Grand Prize Winner - Sitcom - Teleplay - The Mr. Dave Show...Show
2019 Hollywood Screenplay Contest
Winner - Fresh Start, Inc. - Screenplay - Best Sci-Fi
2019 Los Angeles Film Awards
Winner - screenplay - bGone
2019 American Filmatic Awards
4th Place - Screenplay - The Trouble w/Being
2018 The Indie Gathering
Award for Excellence - Screenplay - bGone
2018 New York Los Angeles International Film Festival (NYLA)
Finalists - Screenplay - co-written with Patrick Wiegers ...It All Comes Down to This...
2018 Creative World Awards Screenwriting Competition
Runner-up - Screenplay - co-written with Patrick Wiegers ...It All Comes Down to This...
2018 Acclaim Screenwriting Contest
Winner - Jury Award - Screenplay - bGone
2017 GO independent Film Festival
Finalist - Tantra Schmantra - teleplay spec (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
2016 Tracking Board
Top 75 - Screenplay - co-written with Patrick Wiegers ...It All Comes Down to This...
Fresh Start, Inc. Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy Martin Dorschman is a tightly-wound 50 year old man who thinks he will be promoted on his birthday, BUT is instead fired. He only then agrees to use a convert organization to fake his death so he can come back to take a wrong-headed approach at being his boss's boss and to even more wrong-headedly try to get that same unimpressed company to plan a memorial for his former self so as to impress his now widowed but still bitter former wife
The Mr. Dave Show...Show Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Forced out of the the business of children's show clowning, due to psychological problems, Mr. Dave Show still wants to prove that he has acting talent, and that he is sane. ....Against his agent and his shrink’s advice he takes work under various disguise as his ex-wife’s pool-man, driver, hairdresser etc....
bGone Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama A man survives the 9-11 collapse of the twin towers -walking away in a daze. A series of subsequent decisions lead him into a new life.
ClubFit-less Comedy Clubfit-less is everything you NEVER wanted your health club to be.
Barth Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama A sheriff in a nearly abandoned small town, with a legendary mystical lake, tries to solve a crime as he struggles with himself, the disgruntled townspeople, a visiting journalist, and the past, while he tries to replace his deceased brother at work and at home.