Award-winning screenwriter and novelist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in female centric stories with humor, heart and teeth.
1st Place Winner, Nevada Film Screenplay Competition, "Adult Publishing for Middle-School Girls"
(2013)
Top 3 Finalist, Final Draft Big Break, "Adult Publishing for Middle-School Girls"
(2013)
2nd Place Winner, Kern County Competition, "Yellowjacket"
(2009)
4th Place Winner, San Diego Film Competition, "Lucky for Her"
(2008)
Adult Publishing for Middle-School Girls Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Drama In a dusty, 1970s Arizona basin town, an odd, artistically gifted thirteen-year-old girl decides to solve her cash flow problem by drawing naked pictures of women and selling them to her male classmates.
Eternity Blue Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance After a near death experience, a stoic art history professor upends her “perfect” life and falls in love with a much younger man.
Firebug Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Romance In Trump's new America, a gentle, confused seventeen- year-old serial arsonist moves to a small, conservative community, where he falls for the mayor’s daughter and literally sets the town on fire.
Animal People Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Comedy To get close to a sexy local animal trainer, a neurotic, directionless, Portland, Oregon artist, who's never been good with animals, adopts an unruly stray dog.
Deadloss Budget: $30M+ | Horror While stranded in the Bering Sea, a tough kid from Detroit and his fellow crewmates aboard an Alaskan crab fishing boat are attacked by vengeful ghosts.
Portland State University
(1995-2007)