SHORT FILMS
THE MUSHROOM MAN
Steampunk fantasy/sci-fi
Shooting 2026
Set in a world overtaken by moisture where moss is equated with beauty and mold is terminal, the Mushroom Man is an outcast whose fungi contains healing properties that he uses to keep his lover alive.
(Currently financing + casting.)
WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH BIRDS? 2025
Adult fantasy/adventure, 11m18s
A trailblazing young birder sets out to answer the age-old question – what’s the deal with birds? When a strange bird offers her answers, things begin to take flight.
Festivals: MSPIFF, RiverRun, Palm Springs ShortFest, BraveMaker, Indy Shorts, Hollyshorts, Footcandle, Twin Cities Film Festival, PROOF Film Festival
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THE ORIGIN STORY (OF GERALD THE LEMON) 2022
Adult fantasy/adventure, 15m51s
After suffering a devastating tragedy, a broken young man embarks on a strange journey to a radical Swedish healing program that turns people into fruit.
Festivals: Best Comedy, Short. Sweet Film Festival
ADVENT CALENDAR 2019
Absurd comedy, 4m29s
Told in a darkly whimsical tone, a woman watches as her younger husband tries to reclaim his youth by turning to experimental cooking. As he finds creative freedom in almost inedible food, his wife finds that she's slowly being pushed away day-by-day, meal-by-meal.
Festivals: Best Comedy, Short. Sweet Film Festival, Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, NYC Independent Film Festival, LA Shorts International Film Festival, Square Lake Music & Film Festival, Lonely Seal International Film Festival
K IS FOR KUMQUAT 2020
Fantasy/comedy, 5m51s
The untimely re-emergence of an old imaginary friend causes a man to reevaluate his priorities.
AN APPLE A DAY 2020
Super 8 fable, 4m50s
A man goes on a creative journey with an apple head.
FINISHED SCRIPTS
TERROIR
Adult fantasy/comedy
While on a wine country weekend with her biting old college group, Jeanie comes into possession of a magical bottle of wine that sets her off on a psychedelic trip into the woods and into her own mind.
NOW THE GREEN BLADE RISES
Dramedy
When Elim Lutheran's music director Andie finds her job threatened with the hire of a contemporary co-music director, she finds herself in a losing battle of Midwestern virtues, Minnesota-nice, and the battle for control of the church’s music.
WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH BIRDS?
Adult fantasy/adventure
When passionate bird enthusiast Frankie Hawkins travels to Brazil to visit her father’s nature show set, she’s unexpectedly pulled into a secret world of talking birds, ancient prophecies, and an uprising against a tyrannical bird queen; as she learns about her own past through the birds, Frankie realizes she might be the key to saving the entire bird kingdom. (Based on the short film.)
COOKING & CASTLE BUILDING
Period piece romcom
After her novel faces endless rejections from publishers, Kate Ewing evades the marriage mart of high society New York City in the 1880s by taking her two best friends to upstate New York for the summer to write the only thing a publisher will take from her -- a cookbook.
THE REMARKABLE BATTLE OF PUMP STREET
Political satire
Adam Wayne lives in a small midwestern town governed by a Leader that is chosen at random every 9 years. When the ridiculous Auberon Quin is selected, all hell breaks loose as he divides the city into territories, resulting in Adam rising up to fight for his home on Pump Street.
MOLDY
Steampunk fantasy/sci-fi
A cantankerous nurse named Eunice works in the moisture ward in the town of Dewford, years into an epidemic where people have either moss (good!) or moldy (bad) growths. When Eunice’s daughter finds mold on her body, she teams up with local reporter Vern to find a healer before it’s too late. (Currently writing the novel.)
FRUIT
Experimental comedy
Jane and Charlotte are sisters who’ve made a career out of their piano-dueting skills. When their overbearing mother dies by artistic-suicide, they are forced to reckon with whose choice it was to become artists, and what their relationship is without that pressure.
PINE CITY DRAGONS
TV comedy pilot (half hour)
A comedy set in a small trailer park town in the midwest featuring a ragtag ice hockey team of teenage girls called the Pine City Dragons.