Film & Theatre
SHORT FILMS:
Rage Against the Teen (Music Video)
(Writer, Director, Producer, Music, Editor, Starring)
A fed-up mom finds a healthy outlet for her rage in this punk rock parody.
Festivals & Exhibitions:
Cindependent Film Festival (2023) – Cincinnati, OH
Portland Comedy Film Festival (2023) – Portland, OR
Awards:
Portland Comedy Film Festival – Funniest Music Video Award Finalist
Texas Annie: The Legend of the Moan Ranger (Music Video)
(Director, Producer, Co-Writer/Lyricist, Editor)
Texas Annie: The Legend of the Moan Ranger tells the musical tale of a renegade sex toy runner in Texas when sex toys are declared illegal.
Festivals & Exhibitions:
Hollywood Women’s Film Festival (2020) – Hollywood, CA/Online
Provincetown Women’s Weekend (2019) – Provincetown, RI
Women Texas Film Festival (2019) – Dallas, TX
Cinekink (2019) – New York City, NY
Clexacon (2019) – Las Vegas, NV
SPEED Museum (2018) – Louisville, KY
Cindependent Film Festival (2018) – Cincinnati, OH
Female Eye Film Festival (2018) – Toronto, Canada
Dances With Films (2018) – Los Angeles, CA
Awards:
Best Musical Comedy Short, Hollywood Women’s Film Festival (2020)
45 1/2
(Director, Writer, Producer, Editor)
A meditation on middle age, 45 1/2 is an experimental documentary shot spontaneously on an iPhone during a silent meditation retreat at a monastery in Louisville, Kentucky.
Festivals & Exhibitions:
Cindependent Film Festival (2019)
Nominations:
Best Short Documentary, Cindependent Film Festival (2019)
Ice Cream Cake (commissioned by The NJ Nature Conservancy)
(Co-Director/Producer, Editor)
A surprise office birthday party. A melting ice cream cake. Talking about climate change doesn’t have to be so difficult…
Festivals & Exhibitions:
Montclair Film Festival (2019)
An Ounce of Mother
(Co-Writer/Director, Editor, Actress)
Shot on two cell phones using an experimental improvisational filmmaking method, An Ounce of Mother follows the misadventures of two siblings, on opposite coasts, dealing with the loss of their mom.
Festivals & Exhibitions:
Boston Underground Film Festival (2011)
Awards:
Best Film Shot on a Mobile Device, The Flaneur Film Festival (2010)
FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY:
Texas Annie
(Co-Writer)
Texas Annie tells the musical tale of a renegade sex toy runner in Texas when sex toys are declared illegal.
*screenplay and feature film pitch deck available upon request*
Awards:
International Screenwriters’ Association’s, Grand Prize in “Genre-Busting Comedy” (2021)
Nominations:
Best Feature Screenplay, Cindependent Film Festival (2019)
THEATRE:
Texas Annie: The Legend of the Moan Ranger
(Co-Writer, Producer)
Texas Annie tells the musical tale of a renegade sex toy runner in Texas when sex toys are declared illegal.
*this is a stage adaptation of the feature film screenplay of the same name*
Staging:
Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio (June 2022)
Awards:
Cincinnati Fringe Festival – Pick of the Fringe Audience Award (2022)
Cincinnati Fringe Festival – Critic’s Pick Encore Performance (2022)
Devon’s Diary
(Writer, Producer, Directer, Actress, Sound Designer, Editor, Music Composer)
Devon’s Diary follows a young artist’s darkly-comedic downward spiral, initiated by her mother’s death—and the subsequent request by her girlfriend to open their previously monogamous relationship. Incapable of coping with her pain, Devon’s only method of dealing with it is by self-medicating. And her only way of trying to make sense of it is by turning it into “art.”
Staging:
Hollywood Fringe Festival (2015)
AUDIO PLAYS:
Devon’s Diary
(Writer, Producer, Directer, Actress, Sound Designer, Editor, Music Composer)
A gritty, 6-part audio fiction series taking place in 1990’s NYC, Devon’s Diary follows a young artist’s darkly-comedic downward spiral, initiated by her mother’s death—and the subsequent request by her girlfriend to open their previously monogamous relationship. Incapable of coping with her pain, Devon’s only method of dealing with it is by self-medicating. And her only way of trying to make sense of it is by turning it into “art.”
Publication:
OyeDrum Volume V
GRANTS:
Development Award, Cindependent Film Festival (2019)