Welcome to Fall 2025!

MY BACKGROUND

• EDUCATION & STORY CONSULTING: I have a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Creative Arts with graduate coursework in Creative Writing. I was a Screenwriting Fellow at the American Film Institute. For over a decade, I evaluated scripts for Los Angeles studios and production companies, and later reviewed scripts for a San Francisco studio. Since then, I have consulted for contests,  grant panels, writers, and many writers and filmmakers. 

• TEACHING: I have taught at CCSF since Fall 2018. I taught previously in California at Lucasfilm, De Anza Community College, the San Francisco Film Society,  Film Arts Foundation, U.C. Berkeley Extension, and the Community of Writers Screenwriting Workshop in Olympic Valley, CA. I also taught in Oregon at Linfield College, Portland State University Extended Learning, and the Northwest Film Center. 

• WRITING: I have written narrative and non-fiction scripts and treatments for film, public TV, the internet, and mobile media. Productions I have written for have earned an Emmy, a Codie, an Action for Children's Television Award, a New York Film Festival Gold, and two nominations for Peabody Awards. 

Current feature projects include CURE, an international drama that won a 2025 Bold Voice Award and was a Semifinalist for The Writers Lab, and GRAFT, a period coming-of-age script adapted from the novel In the Bishop’s Carriage by Miriam Michelson, which was a 2023 Austin Screenwriting Competition Second Rounder and is in development for theatrical production supported by a 2023 Puffin Foundation grant. 

I am developing THIN AIR, a dramatic feature involving aeronauts, magic, and early flight, and a political thriller set in the Middle East.

Selected credits include script consulting and editing on THE CALLBACK, a comedic short by writer/director Kara Herold; writing a treatment for THE DOUBLE HAPPINESS COMPANY, a coming-of-age novel by Anne Aylor; writing A PRAYER, a dramatic short for actor Anthony Aguilar Gallagher; writing CLIPPED WINGS, a dramatic feature based on true events for Front Row Productions; and co-writing the treatment for THE MAYA MOVIE, a documentary feature for Redhouse Productions.