Screenwriter / writer-director · Atlanta
Different stories.
Same handwriting.
I write about people trying to fix what can’t be fixed.
A starting point across features and shorts.
Full slateStill carrying guilt over ignoring his suicidal brother’s final calls, a young man hits and abandons another desperate stranger on a rain-soaked road; ten months later, her ghost begins calling, forcing him to choose between the life he rebuilt and the truth buried in the woods.
A punk Army Reservist ordered to deploy to Iraq seeks guidance from his active-duty younger brother; when the brother is killed in action, he prepares to disappear under a fake identity but must decide whether refusing the war means abandoning everyone who still loves him.
A broke Atlanta couple take over a murdered Black hardware owner’s storefront to launch a vintage shop, then uncover a gentrification scheme linking their benefactor to the killing — and turn their business into a public trap before the town erases them too.
When Glen Powell comes to his Missouri hometown to shoot a movie and starts dating the woman he has loved since high school, a stalled factory worker and failed screenwriter launches one last pathetic campaign to win her — only to discover the movie he needs to rewrite is his own life.
A lonely repairman discovers a door where the dead can be reclaimed at the cost of twenty-five living years per hour; after bringing four family members back, he spends a lifetime trying to defeat the one loss the bargain cannot undo.
When her husband’s estranged father dies, a Korean-American psychologist tries to keep her depression-prone spouse connected to life as funeral debt, a faith-based inheritance ultimatum, and their elderly dog’s medical crisis turn one loss into a test of how much grief a marriage can carry.
Across genres
Horror when the truth is not enough. Comedy when it is too much. Drama when it lands where it lands.
Somebody carrying a problem that won’t be solved — and going at it anyway. Badly. Stubbornly. Right at the point where the story they’ve been telling about their life stops holding weight.
Blunt, observant, and darkly funny. Sensitive without sentimentality.
AboutCURRENTLY DEVELOPING
Finished scripts tell you what I make. This is what is currently taking up room in my head.
See everything in development →A Christmas Carol for someone who does not believe in ghosts.
Run it again. Change the variable. See if reality gives a different answer.
Before LCD Soundsystem became the coolest band in the room, James Murphy spent years convinced the room had already moved on without him.
Can you still invent a movie people understand from one sentence?
SELF DEVELOPMENT / LIFE 401
I put scripts into development all the time. This time I put myself there.
Open projectSelected Journal
My dad had a pillow. It’s mine now.
Growing up, I thought acceptance was one of the highest things you could earn.
There are two things I want to do with my life as a writer.
The first movie that made me want to make movies was not the kind of movie filmmakers usually cite when they are trying to sound impressive.
Festival, competition, and fellowship recognition across the slate.
In development / short film
A depressed Atlanta rideshare driver accepts a lucrative late-night fare into the North Georgia mountains. When the signal dies and he realizes his passenger intends not to come back, keeping the passenger alive means admitting he needs help too.
Script requests. Assignments. Development. Directing. Press.
