hey there

I’m a writer and director who was born in San Francisco, grew up in LA and (arguably) learned to adult in New York City. I’m currently living in the Midwest. My Montana-set feature COWBOYS, which I wrote and directed starring Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell and Ann Dowd, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Zahn. It has since garnered awards at various festivals (Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at Newfest, Audience Award for Best Feature at Nashville Film Festival, Best Actor for Sasha Knight at Outfest) and is distributed domestically by Samuel Goldwyn. It’s avail on Amazon and Apple if you want to check it out. HOT SEAT, which I wrote and directed, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Between Vimeo and YouTube, the short has over 29 million views. I also directed THE CHANCES, a digital series written by and starring two deaf actors, which also premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. You will never be able to see this because it was optioned to be a TV series. I’ve directed one episode of TV: RIVERDALE Chapter One Hundred and Fifteen. 

My Gotham-nominated comedic digital series THE IMPOSSIBILITIES (2015) follows the interwoven storylines of a magician and a daffy lesbian yogi and was licensed by Studio Plus (Canal) for international distribution. It’s currently available in the US on Vimeo. I was selected for the 2020 Warner Brothers Directing Workshop for Television, the 2016 Fox Global Directors Initiative for episodic directing, and am a Film Independent and Sundance Fellow (2016 New Voices, 2017 Episodic). I've developed projects and made shorts for Vice/Refinery 29, Funny or Die and Amazon. Indiewire named me one of twenty female filmmakers to watch in 2020. I started out as a playwright in New York, where I was part of EST’s Youngblood, was supported by the Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, Space on Ryder Farm and had a play, THE TALLS, premiere at Second Stage Uptown. I’m developing a few features with a handful of producers and have started dabbling in short stories and essays.

I grew up in a creative household: my mom is a poet and my dad was a visual effects producer. I’ve worked at an optometrist’s office, been a server, a barista, a dogwalker, a producer of true crime reenactments and a cog in a publicity firm. All those random jobs taught me so much. In my work, I'm drawn to diving deep into new worlds, class struggles, the confines of gender, misunderstood criminals, outsiders, and chosen families. I try to stay off social media as much as possible. I find shooting guns at the gun club oddly calming, love road trips and weirdos on the street. I'm an alum of Stanford University and am repped at United Talent Agency.