Writing
Whether its writing for the screen, the stage, prose, or prompts- I love the way narratives and characters inspire and bring us together, and since so many of my favorite stories inspired me to think boundlessly outside the box, I am always challenging myself to write engaging content in new genres and mediums.
Details on a few selected works of mine can be found below, with excerpts on each project’s page!
Featured Projects
Logline: Two former high school legends team up on a wild goose chase across Nashville- searching for an engagement ring, a scooter gang, and a way to stop their washed up lives from crashing before the night ends.
This feature length screenplay received the University of Alabama’s highest honor, the Holle Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.
Zero Trust Architecture (Play)
Logline: No. More. Human. Friends. A new procedure implants permanent, artificially intelligent pets into clients' lives – and with her human best friend moving away, 26-year-old Jo steals a glitchy reject model for herself. Is this mutual destruction?
I wrote this one-hour sci-fi dark comedy for Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024, pitching my story to win an offer from a festival venue and performing for a new daily audience.
Logline: Outcast high school siblings try to use an antique party gadget to manipulate a party in their favor, only for it to go horribly awry.
This short screenplay received a full grant from the University of Alabama College of Communications and was a Quarterfinalist at the Nashville Film Festival.
Logline: A lonely grocery bagger faces delusion, misplaced shopping carts, and a chance at love in the local grocery.
This comedic short story was chosen for publication in the award-winning literary journal, Marr’s Field Journal.
Elixir No. 27 (Short Film Script)
Merry Chasers (Feature Script)
Nightmares in GrubVille (Short Story)
Logline: An estranged father and daughter try a new prescription to solve their communication woes, and spend 24 fleeting hours speaking the same language.
This short story won first place in the University of Alabama Creative Writing Contest in Fiction, judged by novelist Chantel Acevedo.
Father-Daughter Dance (Short Story)
Non-Fiction Articles
Whether it was catching the CEO, Marketing of Waffle House’s eye with an impassioned front-page article about my love for the Southern food chain, highlighting a uniquely heartwarming story at my university when students created a funeral and shrine for a dead bug….. I love to find unlikely narratives in the overlooked or mundane!🐛
ENIGMA VARIATIONS (Co-Wrote Episode 8, Upcoming Drama Series on Netflix)
I worked in the writer’s room of upcoming Netflix Drama Series ENIGMA VARIATIONS- and was asked by the showrunner to cowrite the finale episode of the series with her.
Logline: Based on novel by André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name), the story follows Paul, a bisexual man, whose consuming love and desire shape his life—from adolescence in Italy through adulthood in New England and New York.