Essays, screenplays, and plays — 2012 to present
Essays
Screenplays
TV Series · Drama · Season 1 Complete
A country musician chases the last song that matters while his marriage quietly falls apart.
Ten episodes. Set in Nashville and on the road. About the cost of obsession, the weight of tenderness, and what it means to stay.
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"He nods at Charlie, keeps playing. The band eases in to join him. It's not perfect, but it's starting to sound like more of a band."
Feature · Drama
A group of close friends make a drunken pact to become great — and spend the next decade finding out what that costs.
About ambition, loyalty, and the gap between who you meant to be and who you became.
Feature · Drama
A first-time screenwriter accidentally gets commissioned. The film he writes becomes the thing that undoes him.
A love story about creation, failure, and the dangerous distance between a life lived and a life imagined.
Feature · Drama / Comedy
A middle-aged man decides to spend a year going to as many live shows as possible. It does not go as planned.
About music, obsession, and rediscovering something you forgot you loved before adulthood made it complicated.
Feature · Thriller
A hotel employee with an unusual gift for reading people gets trapped between two guests who shouldn't be there.
Unsettling in the quiet way. Set almost entirely in a single building over a single night.
Feature · Drama
Two estranged brothers cross the American Southwest to settle their father's estate. Neither wants to be there.
A road film about the things families refuse to say, and what happens when the road runs out.
Feature · Coming of Age
A teenage skateboarder in the early 2000s discovers that the thing he loves most might not love him back.
Set to the soundtrack of a particular era. About identity, community, and learning to fall.
Feature · Drama
An art authenticator is asked to verify a painting that, if real, would upend everything he believes about legacy and truth.
A slow burn about expertise, doubt, and the terrifying possibility of being right.
Feature · Drama
A climate scientist returns to her hometown to find the town itself is disappearing — and nobody seems to notice.
About grief, denial, and what it means to know something no one wants to hear.
Plays
Play · Drama
The night before a wedding by the ocean, the wrong conversations finally happen.
A chamber piece. Two acts, six characters, one night. About love as a decision rather than a feeling.
Play · Drama
A man named Joseph believes he's been given a mission. The people around him aren't sure whether to be moved or worried.
About faith, charisma, and the distance between conviction and delusion.
Play · Drama
An aging woman asks her adult children to sit with her for one last evening, and tell her something true.
Spare, direct, and harder than it looks. About memory, forgiveness, and what we owe the people who made us.
Play · Drama
A film school cohort, their last week before graduation, and the work that will define them — or won't.
About the gap between artistic ambition and the actual practice of making something. Written from experience.