I’m an award-winning action/horror screenwriter working in both the feature world and on projects for television. My writing has been recognized by ScreenCraft, Austin Film Festival, The Black List, Filmmatic, The Red List, Launch Pad, Vail Film Festival, and Final Draft Big Break. And while I’m not a comedy specialist, even my scarier stuff tends to be pretty funny—or so I’m told.
I’ve been a storyteller basically as long as I can remember—much to my family’s chagrin. My wife (who’s my first and most important reader) often wishes I didn’t have quite so much to say. In general, my writing tends to feature flawed characters struggling to redefine themselves (and their tribe) in order to survive. And I see genre as a tool for exploring taboo subjects in unexpected and arresting ways. Oh, and I love it when my characters start using their words all on their own.
The Untimely Demise of that Awful David Schwartzman Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Comedy Two young P.A.s find themselves ensnared in the convoluted mystery surrounding the death of legendary film producer, David Schwartzman. Think: "The Player" meets "The Big Lebowski" meets "Only Murders in the Building".
Merit Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Adventure A charming (if unlucky) band of low-level drug dealers pose as Boy Scout troop leaders to steal a shipment of cocaine from a Mexican drug cartel and smuggle it into 1970s Aspen, Colorado. Think: “Drugstore Cowboy” meets “The Bad News Bears”
Message the Shooter Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Comedy A hot-tempered, hotshot FBI hostage negotiator gets tapped to take down an elite assassin on a killing spree targeting the world's worst CEOs. Turns out, the shooter's actually her estranged father.
Skin Deep Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror After discovering her husband is cheating on her with his Gen-Z admin, a middle-aged woman follows her BFF to a remote spa promising a genetically rejuvenated self. Soon though, their 'treatment' takes a twisted, gruesome, and potentially deadly turn.
Home Budget: $5M - $10M | Animation ⋄ Adventure After the world’s elite have fled for Mars, a reclusive tech titan volunteers to stay behind to reverse the ravages of climate change. But first, he and his menagerie of household robots must join forces with a dubious survivor to take down a malevolent AI intent on preventing humanity’s return.
Midnight at the Caravelle Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller An idealistic young intelligence officer finds himself slipping into a double life of espionage and crime after being tasked with infiltrating and taking down a smuggling ring in 1970 Saigon.
The Unanticipated Emancipation of Zebulon Pierce Budget: $10M - $30M | Western A young runaway searching for his father in the wilds of 1890s Colorado finds himself drawn to a life of crime after falling in with an oddball band of misfit bandits with exceptional diction and unimpeachable style.
The Escapist Budget: $30M+ | War ⋄ Drama In a bid to survive WWII without firing a shot, a naive, young, jazz-obsessed musician joins the Musikkorps Leibstandarte-SS (Hitler’s elite personal orchestra) and soon finds himself thrust into some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The 10th Budget: $10M - $30M | War Two headstrong young mountaineers (one American, one Austrian) find themselves playing an unexpectedly pivotal role in the first high-stakes WWII mission of the US 10th Mountain Division—America’s first alpine infantry unit.
Independence Pass Budget: $5M - $10M | Adventure A ragtag pack of kids head up into the mountains above Aspen, Colorado in June 1977 searching for a long-lost silver artifact—and find themselves caught up in the manhunt for escaped serial killer, Ted Bundy. Based on actual events.
Don't Go There Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror Two female co-founders of a super hot tech start-up take a rival CEO up on his offer of some post-IPO R&R on his private island in the South Pacific. Turns out, all is not as it seems on the island—a former French nuclear test site.
Broken Stones Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Drama Three generations of thieves (one retired, one reformed, and one recently released from prison) return to Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall to steal back treasures looted from their family by Nazis at the height of WWII.
Divided We Fall Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Sci-fi A feuding pair of gay empty nesters on the verge of divorce find themselves embroiled in what might be a Silicon Valley alien invasion.
Omnilinqual Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi Recruited to decipher the language of an ancient civilization recently discovered on Mars, an archaeologist and her ex-husband find themselves in a desperate race to expose a shocking truth about humanity’s place in the universe.
Amends Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Comedy While in rehab, a washed-up 90s sitcom star finds out he’s dying of cancer and—together with his agent—decides to break out and mend fences with everyone he’s ever wronged (to varying degrees of failure).
Turn, Turn, Turn Budget: $30M+ | Adventure A middle-aged couple on the verge of divorce discover a mysterious pocket watch inside the attic of their Haight-Ashbury Victorian and (together with their hippy-dippy parents) wind up tumbling backward in time to the Summer of Love and beyond.
Constellation Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy An international team of D-list celebrities sign on to compete in the world’s first space-based reality TV game show—only to find themselves accidentally embroiled in a burgeoning hot war between the world’s new superpowers.
Escape Velocity Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama After the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, a bookish teen and his foulmouthed new stepsister join his estranged father on a high-stakes road trip to stop a Soviet spy intent on sabotaging the US Space Program. Inspired by true events.
Finalist, Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
(2022)
Semi-Finalist, Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Stage 32 - Television Drama Writing Contest
(2022)
Top 15%, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship
(2022)
Second Rounder, Launch Pad Feature Competition 9th Annual
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Feature Competition
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition
(2022)
Top 20%, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship
(2021)