BIOGRAPHY

My company New Visions Fellowship recently produced Hard Scrambled, a feature film starring Kurtwood Smith (That 70’s Show, Robocop), Richard Edson (Do the Right Thing, Stranger than Paradise) and Alanna Ubach. New Visions recently kicked off a Project Greenlight-like contest to find its next film.

I directed and co-produced the feature film March which stars Cynda Williams (One False Move), Rena Sofer (Traffic) and Michelle Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas). It played opening night of the Lake Arrowhead Film Festival. Chris Potter of the Ann Arbor News gave the film 4 out of 4 stars and wrote, “March is in fact an astonishing and deeply disturbing meditation on the tangled conflicts of the human heart… remarkable first film.”

The former Director of Development for the producer of Allison Anders’ Gas-Food-Lodging, I was recently ranked as the fifth best script consultant in the country. My clients include Emmy-winning and Oscar –nominated filmmakers. My regular column was singled out by the LA Times as “hilarious” when they chose Creative Screenwriting as the best screenwriting magazine.

I sold a screenplay called Legend of the Chupacabras to independent producers and wrote for an unproduced sci-fi/horror live-action Internet series, The Nameless. While receiving my Masters in film from the University of Michigan, I received the Hopwood Award for screenwriting (past recipients include Arthur Miller and Lawrence Kasdan). I produced the short film Date which won the Best Local Filmmaker Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1990.

A freelance writer, I contributed to MacMillan Reference's 100 Years of American Film, wrote the foreword to Erik Joseph’s How to Win Screenwriting Contests and wrote for several websites including HollywoodPartners.com. I have taught film production and screenwriting at several colleges. I have also been an avid poker player since before it became cool.