ROMANCE

I started writing romantic comedies in 2005. That year I was a junior in high school and submitted a short film about a boy in love with the literal girl next door, Justify the Means, to The New Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow Festival. It won the awards for best actress and best screenplay.

In 2009 I made my first of three "no budget" features, Mack Hanglider, using a camcorder with a "depth of field" adapter affixed to it. The adapter was great at creating a more "cinematic" image, but had an unintended side effect that flipped the image upside down while recording. We shot the entire movie like that. Eventually, it won "Best Composition in New Media" at Rutgers University's Writers House Awards.

While in my senior year at Rutgers, myself and a few friends shot my second feature, Stay Single, over the course of 19 days with a rented DSLR (that was brand new technology that thankfully kept the image right-side-up). We premiered it at the Garden State Festival in 2010.

In December of 2010, I thought of an idea for a rom com about a woman who always dreamed of getting married 11/11/11, only to be dumped and forced to scramble to find anyone to marry her on the date. We shot my third feature, 11/11/11, sporadically over the next ten months and premiered it on, you guessed it, 11/11/11. It currently has over half a million views on YouTube.

In the subsequent years, I spent much more of my time making short form comedy for the internet until finally focusing primarily on screenwriting after I moved to Los Angeles in 2015. Since then my rom com script Mischief Night placed in the Top 20% at the Nicholl and How To Lose Your Dream Girl and Wedding Assassin were both second rounders at Austin Film Festival.

I bring all of this up to say that my heart has always been with romantic comedies. I grew up on John Hughes, Nora Ephron, Richard Curtis, among others and I hope to one day get the chance to make films like they did.

I've put together a reel highlighting some of my more romantic work including a few scenes from the aforementioned projects. I hope you enjoy watching the scenes as much as I enjoyed writing and directing them.