I don’t dream of winning an Oscar. Or finding my name on the Best Seller’s List. I don’t even fantasize about writing a snappy piece for the New Yorker. No, the only thing I have ever wanted to do is write for television. It is not a backup plan for me because the studios make less films. No, I’ve known it since a day in seventh grade. I was having a bad day and not by the standards of tween, but an actually horrible life changing bad day. Then something amazing happened -- Dawson’s Creek premiered and I had a new favorite show. That’s when I learned the power of television. Sure, every couple of decades a movie or book like To Kill a Mockingbird changes the way people think. But television does that everyday. Season after season. How would we view war without Mash? Would today’s youth be largely pro-marriage equality without Will and Grace? Would Obama be president if the Huxtables didn’t show us that African Americans were really just Americans? Television has the power to change the whole world and, at the same time, comfort one scared chubby redhead girl in East Tennessee.
I confidently told people my dream of writing for TV. Yet somewhere between college and an advertising career, my dream had become nothing more than a well-memorized line. Life kept moving fast until an eight-inch tumor halted everything. Three surgeries, fourteen months of treatment, and one stage IV endendometriosis diagnosis later, my family took me to Los Angeles for Christmas. Midway through the Warner Bros. Studio Tour, I was transformed back into that rounded thirteen-year-old girl, wanting to write my own Dawson’s Creek. This time I was going to make it happen. Within six months, I had moved cross-country for the UCLA professional program.
So four years later, I’m still plugging away. Somewhere between rewrites and rejection letters, I’ve placed in some contests (NBC Writer's on the Verge Semi-Finalist, Page Finalist, Final Draft's Big Break Final Five, Wildsound Festival Winner, Creative World Awards Finalist and Austin Film Festival Second Rounder). Also, I'm currently nearing my twenty-year mark at Madison Media Works. As Creative Director, I have written, cast, produced, and overseen the editing of over a hundred national television commercials.
If you made it all the way to the end of my ramblings, first, congratulations, and second, welcome to my website! Here you will find loglines for my writing endeavors, samples of my nationally produced commercials, as well as my first attempt at blogging. Blog Warning: It probably will be random. It most likely will include fashion, especially. my savings- killer obsession with Chanel. There’s a very good chance there will be some Lakers ranting (please stay healthy Kobe), but at least Andy Roddick is retired so you don’t have to hear about that obsession anymore. Oh, and I guess I’ll talk about TV and writing too ; ). Then again, I might just write solely about my Maltipoo, Maddie. If only I was joking…
Writing Awards
2018 NBC Writer's On the Verge Semi-Finalist
iZombie "The Link"
2018 Creative World Awards Original Pilot
"Jaded Sisterhood Original Drama pilot Finalist
PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (2015, 2017, 2018)
· "Ace Academy" Original Drama pilot FINALIST
· "Hot Flash High" Original Drama Pilot Semi-Finals
"Black Eye" Original Drama Pilot Semi-Finals
"Churchill Springs" Original Drama pilot 2018 Quarterfinals
Emerging Screenwriters (2017)
"Hot Flash High" Top 100 Placement
WildSound Festival (Summer. 2015)-
"Hot Flash High" Original Drama Pilot WINNER·
2017 Creative World Awards Original Pilot
"Churchill Springs" Original Drama pilot Semi-Finals
2017 Austin Film Festival
"Churchill Springs" Original Drama pilot 2nd Rounder
This is Us "20 Years" Spec Drama 2nd Rounder
2016 Script Pipeline
"Ace Academy" Original Drama pilot Quarterfinals
2016 Creative World Awards Original Pilot
"Ace Academy" Original Drama pilot Quarterfinals
2016 Austin Film Festival
"Ace Academy" Original Drama Pilot 2nd Rounder
Arrow "Who is Oliver Queen" Spec Drama 2nd Rounder
2015 Austin Film Festival
"Hot Flash High" Original Drama Pilot 2nd Rounder
Jane the Virgin "Chapter 15" Spec Drama 2nd Rounder
Final Draft Big Break Contest (2015, 2017)
"Black Eye" Original Drama Pilot Quarterfinals
"Hot Flash High" Original Drama Pilot Quarterfinals
Final Draft Big Break Contest (2014) - FINAL FIVE
· Arrow "Second Chances" Spec Drama placed in the final five
· "Ace Academy" Original Drama pilot Semi-Finals
· "Hot Flash High" Original Drama Pilot Quarterfinals
WildSound Festival (Feb. 2015)- WINNER
· Arrow "Second Chances" Spec Drama
Creative World Awards Orginal Pilot - 2014 Finalist
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· "Hot Flash High" Original Drama Pilot FINALIST
- "Ace Academy" Original Drama pilot Preliminary Finalist 2015
- Jane the Virgin "Chapter 15" Preliminary Finalist 2015
Austin Film Festival Telvision Spec Contest-- Comedy
New Girl "Sexy Singles"