A different kind of copy.
I craft stories when I’m copywriting, but oftentimes the assignment requires a narrow focus. That’s fine, constraints keep me grounded. But when I switch over to screenwriting it’s liberating to write without limits. My childish creativity and knack for puns continually draw me to animation, but I also write dark comedies, dramas, and adult cartoons.
Screenplays
Dark Comedy Pilot
I wrote Gold Bricks! with the creative genius Hunter Ashton. It’s a half-hour comedy loosely based on Dante's Inferno about a budding 1980s gameshow host who risks everything for superstardom, descending deeper into Hollywood’s underbelly along the way.
—Top 50 Finalist - Launch Pad Pilot Competition
—Second Round - Austin Film Festival
—Semifinalist - ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition
Animated Feature
Tug is a family movie about a tugboat named Tug and his freighter best friend, Cargo. When Cargo goes missing, Tug must face his fear of the open ocean and leave San Francisco Bay to find him.
—Top 5 Finalist - Final Draft Big Break Contest
—Finalist - ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Contest
—Finalist - Cinequest Film Festival Competition
—Finalist - UCLA Screenwriters Showcase
—Semifinalist - Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting Award
Artwork by Hailey Marshall
Dark Comedy Pilot
Stuck In was written with the Pilot King himself, Eric Mallory Morgan. We both grew up playing competitive soccer so we teamed up to write about it.
This half-hour dark comedy follows badboy fuck-up Wayne “Rafi” Armstrong. Wayne was destined to be the brightest star in international soccer, but a career defined by on-field bust-ups and off-field antics leaves him nearly unemployable, on his last legs, in the darkest soccer black-hole in the universe: Alabama.
—Winner - Imagine Impact x Skydance Sports TV Accelerator
—Semifinalist - ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition
—Quarterfinalist - Final Draft Big Break Contest
—Second Round - Launch Pad Pilot Competition
Sketch Comedy Pilot
H@T/TIPS is a fast-paced sketch comedy show I wrote with Hunter Ashton. We both thought: what if you could enjoy the hilarity of the internet without having to wade through the thick bog of online troll shit?
So we wrote a sketch comedy show for the digital age. Bite-sized and rapid-fire like a social media feed, each episode is made up of 20-25 mini-sketches. The kicker is that every sketch is based on an actual social media post. Welcome to the show that writes itself.
Adult Cartoon Pilot
Three siblings defy the sugar ban in their town to become underground candy dealers. You’ll never look at Skittles the same way again. You’re welcome.
Animated Short
Ribbit is an animated short about a tadpole named Tad who’s a very late bloomer. While his tankmates develop into frogs, he remains a legless loner. But when his fellow frogs get plucked out of their tank by a 10th-grade biology teacher on dissection day, Tad is the only one who can save them.
Contact me to read a script