Creative Writing
Samples
ACADEMY (Episodic, written for audio):
A working-class girl gets a merit scholarship to Bishop Gray Academy, the most prestigious boarding school in the country – and soon gets sucked into the elite institution’s dark underbelly of cheating, love triangles, and secret societies.
FLAT is an unlikely buddy comedy about an 8th grade science student who crosses paths with the NBA’s most notorious Flat Earther, and makes it his mission to win the National Science Fair by convincing the basketball superstar that the world is, in fact, round.
Awards and Publications
$20,000 Screenwriting Grant in the 2022 Film Independent Fast Track Program
2021 Quarterfinalist for the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship
Featured Speaker at 2022 Sloan Film/Film Independent Summit on Science in Film
$20,000 2019 Screenwriting Grand Jury Prize, Tribeca Film Festival
Winner of 2019 Sound Bites New Musical Festival, co-sponsored by Theatre Now New York and Disney
Winner of 2017 NMI New Voices Contest, sponsored by Disney Imagineering
$15,000 2018 Screenwriting Grant, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Published in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2018 (Smith & Kraus)
Editor of PEN America Prison Writing Program Compilations, 2018 – current