About me:

I've had a lifelong love of adventure that has led me up many mountains and paddling down many rivers. Pairing this with my love of probing the deepest questions about who we are as humans, I write adventure stories that force characters to confront philosophical and moral dilemmas.

I grew up in the family religion of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and later studied philosophy of religion at Dartmouth; both taught me that the most powerful questions are asked through storytelling. Prestige TV hooked me on long-form story arcs and rich character development, and I've been honing my craft on original TV pilots ever since.

I live in Pasadena with my wife and two preschooler children. But you can still find me climbing a mountain, floating a river, or, you know, writing stuff.

Scripts and Awards:

• PROJECT NOAH, one-hour original TV pilot.
  2021 Screencraft TV pilot competition — semifinalist.
  2020 Official Selection (teleplays), Richmond International Film Festival
  2020 Page Turner Awards — Finalist
  2020 Page Turner Genre Awards, Science Fiction — second place
  2020 Austin Film Festival Script Competition — second rounder.
  2019 WINNER in TV Drama, Creative World Awards.
  2019 Quarterfinalist in hour-long TV pilots, Final Draft Big Break competition.
  WGA-registered script.
  With an impending calamity set to destroy Earth, a courageous but dogmatic astronaut leads his family to another planet to build humanity's new home, only to encounter a group of doppelgangers bent on killing their newly arrived counterparts.

• ANGEL’S NEST, one-hour original TV pilot.
  2019 Quarterfinalist in TV drama, Creative World Awards.
  WGA-registered script.
  A battered woman escapes her abusive husband, and founds a shelter that uses unorthodox and illegal methods to rescue domestic abuse victims all over the world. Only problem is, she bankrolls this by blackmailing the abusive husband she escaped. He's a mafia boss, and he's on the verge of finding out where she's hiding.

• DOUBLE THE LIFE, one-hour original TV pilot.

  2019 Quarterfinalist in TV drama, Creative World Awards.

  WGA-registered script.
  A successful attorney has the time to kick butt at his job, be a great dad, a loving husband, and do all his favorite hobbies. It almost seems like he can be in two places at once. That's because "he" is actually two people, identical twins, who switch places once a week. "His" (their?) wife and kids and friends don't know about this, but when "his" wife runs for congress, the family comes under scrutiny by the press, threatening to publicly expose the lie they've told to literally everyone in their shared life.

• THE FAKE MAN, one-hour original TV pilot.
  Quarterfinalist, 2020 Page Turner Awards
  Preliminary Finalist, 2020 Creative World Awards
  WGA-registered script
  A laid-back college guy falls in love with a space alien woman who is convinced that he isn't a real person, just a complicated illusion. On the run together from government agents, it falls to him to protect her.  

• CONFLUENCE, one-hour original TV pilot
  In the aftermath of a nuclear war, two outdoor adventurists in love try to journey back to each other across thousands of miles. They must contend with the threats of the wilderness that prevails after the end of civilization, particularly the threat from the handful of other surviving humans.
  Semifinalist in 2021 Table Read My Screenplay competition.
  Semifinalist in 2021 Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay competition.
  Quarterfinalist in 2021 Emerging Screenwriters Genre competition.
  Semifinalist in 2021 Creative World Awards.
  Quarterfinalist in 2021 Screencraft Drama Competition.
  Second Round, 2021 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.
  Semifinalist in 2021 Write LA competition.
  Finalist in 2021 Screencraft Action Adventure competition.

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