More About Me
I'm an Emmy-nominated writer based in the Finger Lakes. For two decades, I've worked as a creative writer across the entertainment and advertising industries, specializing in video storytelling, comedy, and ensuring very specific POV's sound authentic and human.
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See below for a more in-depth history, but here are the quickies:
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Graduated from Yale as a playwright.
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Got my comedy chops at The Onion, Letterman, and Adult Swim.
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Wrote tv pilots that were bought by Amazon and premiered at SXSW.
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Transitioned to copywriting and work for brands like Schitt's Creek, Ricola, Dickinson's Witch Hazel, to name a few.
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Ok, here's the full story:
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I began my writing career as a playwright, graduating with honors from Yale with a degree in playwriting. Working with such playwrights as Edward Albee, Eddie Sanchez and Deb Margolin, my plays were twice accepted to the Yale Playwrights’ Festival, and have been performed in NYC at New Dramatists, HERE Arts Center, the Wild Project, and more.
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I was a staff writer for Late Show with David Letterman for three years up until Dave’s retirement. My horror-comedy pilot, Dale's House (co-created with Julie Lake), premiered at SXSW and I developed a queer detective comedy with Amazon. I wrote on season 1 of Disjointed, a marijuana-themed comedy produced by Chuck Lorre and starring Kathy Bates, for Netflix. I also wrote on Robert Smigel’s Triumph Election Specials for Hulu, earning a Writer’s Guild Award for Best Variety Special, and an Emmy nomination.
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Prior to getting into TV, I worked at The Onion for four years. I wrote headlines for the Onion newspaper, for web video and for Season 1 of Onion News Network on IFC. For the 2008 presidential race, I helped create and maintain The Onion's "War For The White House" coverage, which churned out some of the most subversive and popular videos of the election cycle.
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In 2006, I created, Duder, one of the first scripted comedic series for the web. Now in its third season and with over 30 episodes ranging from 3 to 20 minutes, Duder is one of the longest-running web series of its kind. In 2011, Duder won Best Comedy at the New York Television Festival, was a Webby Honoree for Long Form Comedy series in 2009, and was included in the New York Times Magazine Year In Ideas issue in 2006. My groundbreaking work in the digital space earned him an invitation as an inaugural member of the Writers Guild East Digital Caucus in 2010.