After a college wrestling career, 12-years as an Army Noncommissioned Officer, a brief stint as an Under Armour Director ofTactical Fitness, and a Senior Consultant for Human Performance Analytics stint... Chad chose to venture to the bright lights of the Hollywood industry. In 2020, he founded Battleborne Comics: Creative content forged from combat, a veteran owned comic book studio with a mission of "establishing entertainment industry inroads for aspiring veteran creators". Since then, he's written and published four comic titles, won two Best Screenplay competition awards, and directed two movie shorts (Chapter & Hearse: The Misadventures of the Mob's Most Mediocre Assassin & Assassins' Guild of America). As a 2022 Alumni of the Writers Guild Foundations Veterans Writing Project, an Academy of Nicholl's Fellowship Reader for 2022 and Roadmap Writers Diversity Initiative Runner-up, Chad prides himself on breaking down the traditional paradigm of the Hollywood entrance.
Chad finds his passion in most things PG-13 or dark comedy with a flare for drama and alternative history projects. He strives to help other military veterans find a more direct route to employment in the form of staffing and creative development through network connection.
Hath No Fury Thriller ⋄ Drama A recovering heroin addict seeking redemption in the underbelly of Trenton, New Jersey is thrust into a Biblical war for the souls of mankind after an encounter with a "mistaken" Guardian Angel who reveals an ancient secret that will save us all.
SU(b)PAR Budget: $100K - $1M | Animation ⋄ Family In a world where superheroes are summoned via phone application, a sad-sack, one-star tween learns there's power in perseverance when requested to save the city's only five-star avenger.
Chapter & Hearse: The Misadventures of a Mediocre Assassin Comedy ⋄ Film-noir A bumbling, sad-sack assassin learns a new life lesson when he's mistakenly tasked to kill the teacher that failed him in middle school.
This is America Drama A biracial, newly appointed Black Panther Dignitary desperate to learn the truth of his mother's fate, braves a dangerous U.S. at civil war upon stumbling across a record identifying her as a terrorist threat.
Voluntary. Intervention. Peer. Response. (VIPR) Squadron Action ⋄ Adventure A retired special forces Soldier struggling with PTSD is enlisted by a government brainwashing experiment posing as a self-help group, to dispatch international drug cartels, but when international issues spill into the home of his newly pregnant wife; Someone must pay.
To Hell with It Comedy A quirky, talentless actress makes a deal with the Devil for fame and fortune, but when HE comes to collect on her soul, she hopes to renegotiate the terms making him her live-in roommate.
Assassins' Guild of America Action ⋄ Comedy When the world’s deadliest assassin is placed on injury reserve, his departments cost-cutters come to collect with deadly consequences for all.
BEST DARK COMEDY (New York International Film Awards)
(2023)
GRAND JURY SELECTION - BEST 1st TIME DIRECTOR SHORT (New York International Film Awards
(2023)
Veterans Writing Project Fellowship Alumni
(2022)
Academy of Nicholl Fellowship Coverage Specialist
(2022)
Roadmap Writers Diversity Initiative Runner-up
(2021)
BEST SCREENPLAY (Flip the Script Filmmaking Competition Season 1-Chicago)
(2020)
BEST FIRST FIVE (Blastoff Season 4-Los Angeles)
(2020)
Pennsylvania State University
(2018-2020)
College of Mount St. Joseph
(2003-2005)