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About Me
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul" ~ Theodore Dreiser
I don't think there was any question amongst my family that I would pursue a career in the arts, particularly filmmaking. From the time I could move, I was performing and in search of the nearest camera. I'll never forget the first Walmart point and shoot I got on a trip to Mexico when I was 6. The entire trip, I walked around with my eye plopped into the microscopic viewfinder. A decade later, at 16, I opened my first 'production company' (really it was just me with my dad's camera filming propaganda for my local municipality). Still, my life became that camera. Everything I did was either performing or capturing.
Naturally, I went to film school at American University in Washington DC where I was quickly launched into photojournalism and freelance video work. One day I would be photographing the nation's capital during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the next I would be filming a mentalist, who just so happened to land me my first national television credit on the CW Network. Soon after, I made a number of student films that landed me at a television producing position at the former Kennedy Center. Here, I had the privilege of producing the network television series NEXT at the Kennedy Center as well as working on The Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize for Humor (the latter which won the Emmy in 2025). After the center experienced a political takeover, I left and pursued my production company, Foreground Productions, in New York City, where I currently reside.
What I Believe
From the moment the human race existed on Earth, there was art. Before fire, language, and organized religion, there was art. Art cannot be separated from the human spirit. It is the human spirit. In its earliest forms, art was used to communicate – to tell stories, just like today. Over 64,000 years ago, an ancestor to the people of today created a picture of a 'pig' that is studied in textbooks around the world. These textbooks themselves are a work of art. Everything around us is a work of art. It is how humans communicate and feel. It is the universal language of humanity. When we want to feel something, we watch a movie, listen to music, admire a painting, or read a book. When we are children, we discover what we want to do in this world through a character in a show or a story from a grandparent. What we know about the world we know because of art and the art of storytelling. It is the oldest tradition in the world because it is inseparable from us.
Because of this, I believe art is the most powerful thing in the world. And, in the 21st century, I believe filmmaking to be the most powerful of the arts. By combining elements of sound and sight, filmmaking is able to reach emotional depths previously uncharted. This craft holds the power to a brighter future, one I believe many of us are longing for now more than ever. Each project I create, I approach with the profoundly humbling understanding that someone, somewhere will be impacted by the story. It is my responsibility to proceed with honesty, love, and transparency, both for the story and the team telling the story.
Each day I wake up getting to take part in the oldest most human tradition on Earth, I strive to be an acolyte of art.