I was born and raised on the Jersey shore – Long Branch, birthplace of Dorothy Parker, Norman Mailer and the poet Robert Pinsky. The real place of course is far different from the old “reality” show of that same name. So, in fact, it was actually a good place to grow up. And a good place to escape from, as I quickly became a New Yorker where I earned a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and an MA from NYU interdisciplinary Gallatin School….

Then after an important stop in New Haven to attend the Yale School of Drama Playwriting program…

I became an Angelino where I’ve worked and still work for 20th Century Fox Film studios – now renamed 20th Century Studios because Disney bought Fox, as well as more briefly USA Films, Focus Features, and Warner Brothers.

While I began in theatre and have been produced around the country, I started writing screenplays way back in my undergraduate years at NYU. I also began making films in 2010. I’ve also had prose and poetry published, and am serious about my still photography.

stone clock tower in my backyard – a last remnant of a grand Hearn estate from the 1890s