writer & filmmaker
Flash Fiction
For Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine
Alone, on Fire
for Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine
Mom, Christmas 1985
Based on a true story
Short Films
Your Man
A woman gets annoyed by her overly-eager date and decides she must punish him.
Written and produced by me, directed by Alley Leinweber, shot by Maddalena DeBeni; premiered on NoBudge July 2019.
Oat Milk Mommy
A rude barista who hates oat milk gets more than she bargained for when she falls in love with a customer.
Written by me, produced by Robert Frankel, directed by Maddalena DeBeni, shot by Ben Mosca. (in post-production)
Scripts
Christine
Suspected of murdering her husband, Christine goes on the run with her daughter’s boyfriend, spurring both of her children on a chaotic cross-country chase from Texas to Las Vegas. (110 pages, comedy/melodrama; script available upon request. Loosely inspired by Greek myth and Eugene O'Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra.)
Ritual
An isolated young woman in Ithaca, New York tries to recover from her various addictions by joining a self-care support group that turns out to be a beauty cult. (97 pages; drama/dark comedy/coming-of-age; script and pitch deck available upon request)
Disorder
After her brother unexpectedly dies, a young music journalist and Joy Division fanatic is haunted by the ghost of Ian Curtis when she moves back to Manchester to face her mother. (90 pages; drama/romance/dark comedy; script available upon request)
SPEC SCRIPTS
for Barry - “DADDY” (available upon request)
for Pen15 - “Hot” (available upon request)
Essays/Articles
I Don’t Feel Bad About My Latte
For The Billfold, about drinking lattes into financial ruin.
A Review of Pee-Proof Underwear
For Broadly, I set out to review Thinx’s pee-proof underwear, and the editors gave it a 3rd person headline
Why My Love for Dana Scully is Immortal
Thinking about the new season of the X-Files.
Weird
Is it performance art?
Bachelor Audition Tape
After being inspired by Ben H.’s season of The Bachelor, I wanted to make my own Bachelor audition tape.
We wanted to objectify an air conditioning unit the way men describe their female protagonists.
Sexts Between Mulder & Scully
Exactly what it sounds like