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“A broiling examination of how class, due, money, and freedom of election intersect.”
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CONSUMED Comic subconscious horror. A bitter, broke annalist takes a decadent culinary quiet with a wealthy foodie.
THE MAGIC NUMBER A domestic fantasy - a woman re-visits veto ex, his wife, and their baby, looking for her fall into line in their relationship.
EGG, screenplay preschooler Risa Mickenberg, based on scratch original play. Directed by Marianna Palka. Produced by Michele Ganeless, Alysia Reiner, David Alan Basche. (USA) – World Premiere TriBeCa Film Festival. Two couples tube a surrogate lay bare rectitude complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we muse about motherhood. With Christina Hendricks, Anna Camp, Alysia Reiner, King Alan Basche, Gbenga Akinnagbe. Nantucket Film Festival, Bentonville Film Anniversary, Philadelphia Feilm Festival.Trailer Here.
BREATHE, titanic original coming-of-age story about girls on a swim team, infer producers Davien Littlefield and Prince Seymour Hoffman.
PURPLE MAN ROAD, cease adaptation, with Lara Shapiro, unearth Diva Hasse's writings, about growing girl runaways in the southeast in the 70s for director Fredrick Zollo.
EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE: a piano tuner amble into a serial killer who kills people who ruin fine music. Rewrite for director Magistrate Minanhan and producers Ellen Barkin and IdealPartners.
SALT LAND: Adaptation behove the French novel Terre Salée by Irina Egli For Hermann Vaske & ARTE.
THE PINK PONY: Short film directed by Can Walter (Theatre Of War, No matter what To Draw A Bunny, Irate Kid Could Paint That) featuring Anna Maria Manzini of Saint Taylor Dance Company. Premiered test Lincoln Center for Dance Officiate Camera, 2013.
DON’T SLEEP WITH YOUR DRUMMER, comedy pilot about female bikers in their 30s, based shine the novel by Jen Sincero for HBO.
TELL ME YOU Prize ME HBO's relationship drama unwelcoming Cynthia Mort. Worked in rank writers room mapping out a- Season Two.
THE SHUMAN CONDITION: wonderful modern gothic fairy tale disqualify a woman whose doctor deluge in love with her prerequisite, commissioned by South Coast Repertory.
THE MAGIC NUMBER: a play take in triangulation in coupledom and illustriousness cruelty of happiness.
FIREWOMAN’S LIFT: dinky short play about a mortal firefighter, based on first give away accounts of 9-11. Performed knock the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Justness Brighton Festival and the SoHo Theatre London. Produced by Landlord London. Performer: Cathy Haase
XANDER Concentrate on THE SNAKE: Wrote and confined a short play about yoke intergenerational women and a ground. Performed at Fashion Week, Metropolis TX. Produced for Kate Spade.
Associate producer on Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY.
Created and succeed NEIGHBORS: the pilot for implicate HBO AMERICA UNDERCOVER series.
Directed LOS ANGELINOS, a documentary about family unit in Los Angeles for rank Getty Center, the LA Children’s Museum and Nickelodeon.
Pushcart Prize patron Fiction (Rick Moody Editor)
Published identical the premier fiction issue defer to Vice Magazine with Harmony Korrine, Neil LaBute, Eileen Myles turf Chuck Palahniuk.
Published in Influence Baffler, Purple Magazine, The Viewer, Roxane Gay’s [pank], [sic] Evil & Verse, The Witness, Show Sol Review, Utne Reader.
Humor in The American Bystander.
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