FilmDirector & WriterFeature FilmsChild of Light Austin, TX Oliver Studios
Short FilmsHatched: A Tale of Great Egg-spectations
Premiered at New Filmmakers New York, WIFT-Toronto Short film Showcase, Los Angeles The Rehearsal, New York SEED II, New York The Yellow Wallpaper Finalist, Redstone Film Festival, New York In the Mind’s Eye, Boston The Icing on the Cake, New York Numb, Boston Attack, Boston AM Following, New Haven Tokens, New Haven Seed, New York The Family Room, New York Fault Line, New Haven Awarded three separate Sudler Grants for the Creative Arts ScreenwriterGalatea's Dream (short):
WINNER, 'Best Un-produced Screenplay' LA Femme Short Film Festival Nominee, Montreal Independent Film Festival Semi-Finalist, NYC International Screenplay Awards QuarterFinalist, Atlanta Film Festival QuarterFinalist, Screencraft Short Screenplay Competition QuarterFinalist, Blue Cat Screenwriting Contest Official Selection, Amsterdam Short Film Festival Shattering (feature): Included in IPF's Emerging Narrative, IFP Independent Film Week, New York In Cold Pursuit (short): Second Rounder The Austin Film Festival ProducerBrokers
Dir. Talya Klein, New York (Web Series) Blind Dir. Charles Castel, Award-Winning Graduate Thesis Film London, UK (short) Break Fast at Tiffany Dir. Charles Castel, Boston (Short) Poster Wars Dir. Ross Wachsman, New Haven (Short) Fault Line Dir. Ross Wachsman & Elizabeth V. Newman, New Haven (Short) Production ManagerSurkhaab
Prod. Vivek Kumar & Barkha Madan, Dir. Sanjay Talreja, Winner: Best Feature Film, WorldFest Houston; Winner: Best Producer, Madrid International Film Festival, Toronto (Feature) Palm Pilot Prod. OffHollywood Digital, Dir. Avram Ludwig, New York (Short) First Assistant DirectorBrokers (Web Series)
Dir. Talya Klein, New York Surkhaab (Feature) Prod. Vivek Kumar & Barkha Madan, Dir. Sanjay Talreja, Winner: Best Feature Film, WorldFest Houston; Winner: Best Producer, Madrid International Film Festival, Toronto Palm Pilot Prod. OffHollywood Digital, Dir. Avram Ludwig, New York (Short) Black Heart Anatomy Dir. Levy Los Angeles (Short) Blind Columbia University Program, New York (Short) The Addiction Prod. Jordan Foley, New York (Short) Blind Award-Winning Graduate Thesis Film, London, UK (Short) The Third Bank Winner: Best Senior Thesis in the Creative Arts at Yale, New Haven (Short) On-Set Work ExperienceAssistant to Tim Roth: Funny Games
Dir. Michael Haneke, Warner Independent, New York Assistant to Senior Show Producer: Wickedly Perfect, (CBS), LMNO Productions, Greenwich, CT Second Assistant Director: Swim Test Dir. Alex Chung, New York (Sundance official Selection) Location Liaison: The Stepford Wives Dir. Frank Oz, Paramount Pictures, Norwalk, CT Production Assistant: The Guys Dir. Jim Simpson Open City Films, New York Production Assistant: Law and Order: Criminal Intent Wolf Films, New York Production Assistant: La Leggenda di Al John & Jack Cinergy Pictures, NY, Medusa Film, Italy Worked on 25 other short films in various crew positions: Cinematographer, Script Supervisor, Sound, Editor, Gaffer, Art Film Production Office ExperienceNEW YORK:
Belladonna Productions: Development Consultant Focus Features (Rogue): Reader/script analyst Andrew Lauren Productions: Development Intern/Reader Open City Films (HD Net): Development/Production Intern Big Mouth Productions: An Independent Social Issue Documentary Company, Office Intern LOS ANGELES: United Artists: Production and Acquisitions Office (Intern for Sara Rose, Sr. VP Production & Acquisitions Stage One Reading Series: Producer/Coordinator (bi-monthly staged reading workshop series introducing new works from up-and-coming screenwriters and playwrights) EducationYale University (BA, Theater Studies; History of Art double major)
Boston University (MFA, Film Production) |
TheatreDirectorThe Lady From The Sea by Henrik Ibsen
The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX LIFTED (World Premiere) by Charlie Thurston The Filigree Theatre The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX Fefu And Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX 100 Planes (West Coast Premiere) by Lila Rose Kaplan The Filigree Theatre Los Angeles 100 Planes (World Premiere) by Lila Rose Kaplan The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX Miss Julie by August Strindberg The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX TRIO (World Premiere) by Sheila Cowley The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX A Delicate Ship (Austin Premiere) by Anna Ziegler The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX Betrayal by Harold Pinter The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX Any Night (Los Angeles Premiere) by Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn EVN Productions/The Filigree Theatre Los Angeles Body of Work (World Premiere) by Christine Hoang ScriptWorks Short Fringe FronteraFest 2017 Awarded Best of Fest Week Hyde Park Theatre, Austin The Amenable Stage (World Premiere) by C. M. Gill ScriptWorks Short Fringe FronteraFest 2017, Hyde Park Theatre, Austin Any Night (Austin Premiere) by Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn EVN Productions, Austin Third Annual Austin 1 Minute Play Festival, (Eight World Premieres) ScriptWorks, Austin Playhouse, Austin Any Night (Festival run) by Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn EVN Productions, Frontera Fest, Austin The Sniper’s Nest (Austin Premiere) by Lisa Soland, Last Act Theatre, Austin Mocha (World Premiere) by Eleanor Burgess EVN Productions & Last Act Theatre, Austin Goodnight Children Everywhere by Richard Nelson The Palace Theatre, Ontario, Canada The Park Bench (World Premiere) by Linda Lee Armstrong The Arts Project, Ontario, Canada Fragments by Murray Schisgal The Underground Theater’s Director’s Program, The Underground Theatre, Los Angeles Producer When We Were Young And Unafraid by Sarah Treem
(Austin Premiere) The Filigree Theatre Nights of Noir! (World Premiere) by Kasey Wilson EVN Productions in assoc. with The Attic Theatre, Los Angeles Orange Lemon Egg Canary (West Coast Premiere) by Rinne Groff EVN Productions, Los Angeles Clocks and Whistles (American Premiere) by Samuel Adamson EVN Productions, in assoc. with Origin Theatre Company awarded Chashama Artistic Grant, New York Dutchman by Leroi Jones 13th Street Rep. Theatre, New York Speed the Plow by David Mamet Yale University,New Haven Awarded Sudler Grant for the Performing Arts Assistant DirectorThom Pain by Will Eno
Dir. Ken Webster The Hyde Park Theatre, Austin Weightless by Danielle Wolff Dir. Jerry Kernion, The Attic Theatre, Los Angeles Other AffiliationsWomen in Film & Television - AUSTIN founding co - President
(current) Austin Film Festival Conference Panelist 2018 & 2019 SAG-AFTRA, Union Member (current) Austin Film Society, Member, Austin (current) DIRECTOR’S LAB: NORTH, Lab Member 2018 Yale in Hollywood Entertainment Group, Board Member Independent Film Project, Emerging Narrative Filmmaker, NY B. Iden Payne Awards Nominating Committee, Member, Austin Film Independent, Member Women in Film, Member (Los Angeles) Women in Film & Television - Toronto, Canada Teaching & Related ExperienceBoston University Acting for Writers and Directors (Graduate Teaching Assistant); Screenwriting: Writing the Adaptation (Graduate Teaching Assistant); Advanced Screenwriting II (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
Manhattanville College Reading Images: Visual Analysis of Images in Children’s Literature (Guest Lecture) The Young Storytellers Foundation Head Mentor, Los Angeles Yale University: University Pictures (UPIX), President, Organized University Pictures Film Festivals; Coordinated the University Pictures New Filmmakers Workshops: Writing, Directing the Short Film |