60.0 minute Play 

How do you decide what you will take from the previous generation and what you declare you will never repeat and in the end, is there even the choice? Three generations of the Grace family challenge, accept and question their roles as mother, daughter and grandmother. Set in the South, this One Woman Piece explores the battle between embracing what has been passed down and the necessity of finding your own voice.  

Short Film 

After a night of eating very potent chinese food, a man wakes up with a taste which is impossible to get rid of. 

60.0 minute Skit 

Tune in to The Boob Tube! A live sketch competition of TV spoofs. See LA's funniest emerging writers & actors compete in a gladitorial bloodbath of comedy prowess for a chance to win CASH & the coveted Boobie Prize! And you pick the winner!  

Feature Play 

On November 13, 2002, SUZAN-LORI PARKS got an idea to write a play a day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The resulting play cycle, called 365 Days/365Plays, is a daily meditation on an artistic life. Over 700 theaters are producing the plays all over the globe. "As we like to say at 365, there's pie for everyone." 

3.0 minute Film 

This music video is for a band called Caecelia. They are an emo/eletric/rock/pop band from Southern California/Flagstaff, Arizona. They have a really unique sound and you can check them out at www.myspace.com/caecelia and at www.purevolume.com/caecelia. The video will be shot in mid May and will the concept is very production design driven. I have been reunited with my amazing production designer, Joey Salehi*. I am super stoked about this video and I can't wait to get started! 

Short Mini-series 

This is the latest of my music video montages. Its short and sweet, but very tightly edited. I've been tweaking this one for a while and I think its finally where I want it it to be. I keep on saying im going to add to it (hence the COMING SOON! at the end of it) but I think I am done with it. I love the music editing in this one and editing dance sequences are my favorite! Mmmm yummy. 

Short  

 

11.0 minute Film 

An adaptation of O. Henry's classic christmas story. 

Short Film 

 

Short Film 

Jeremy Ungar, an unscrupulous criminal, attempts to rob an innocent family's house posing as a celebrity in an episode of MTV Cribs. 

Feature Play 

Invisible Child is an exciting, imaginative and very contemporary Dance/Play written and performed by Lisa Barri, a longstanding actress in the New York theater community. The play tells the story of Ginger, a woman who wants so desperately to please her mother and the outside world that she loses herself in the process. Her story is told through a series of monologues in which a variety of characters emerge. Each character has a different effect on Ginger's life so that through the course of the play it becomes clear why she is so lost. Ginger lacks the emotional support from anyone who can see her for the person that she is. Because of sly manipulations, verbal bashing, physical attacks and lack of acceptance, Ginger lives her life to please everyone but herself. To please others she becomes a prosecutor, leaving behind the only connection to Self that she knows - her love for painting. She has deluded herself into thinking that through the legal system she will be able to help people, but because she does her job so well she causes a woman to be sentenced to death row. She had never intended for anything like that to happen and in a moment of epiphany she realizes that she can no longer live the life she's living. She discovers that she cannot get the love or acceptance she desires from pleasing another person and becomes determined to follow her own dreams. 

Feature Play 

A murder has taken place at the Monte Carlo Casino and it is up to you to help Inspecter Truffaut find the culprit. 

Short Film 

 

3.0 minute Film 

Gotta love a bad boy. Breezy, singer/songwriter, is after the "bad boy". The FBI is after him. This video follows the chase while the two love birds disguise themselves in their surroundings and Breezy helps her man out by distracting the FBI agents so he can make a run for it. Will they get away? Watch a find out! Dun dun dun! This video was the first of the three that I directed for my thesis. We shot this in one day, and got shot loads of coverage for a one day 3 person crew shoot. It was a lot of fun and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I definately needed MORE filler footage and I wish I could have covered the dance sequence a little better, but hey, it's a first.  

Feature Play 

The true story of Dr. Fredrick Treeves, and relationship with John Merrick also known of the elephant man. 

Short Play 

In Yasmina Reza's "Art," the friendship of three men is put to the test when one of them, Serge, buys a modern art painting for an insane sum of money. His best friend, Marc, hates the painting and cannot believe Serge would do such a thing without first consulting him. Their younger, soon to be married, neurotic friend Yvan tries to mediate the situation, but loses it and suffers a breakdown. In the end, it comes down to which is more important, the painting, or old friendships. 

Feature Film 

A girl discovers herself through the chance meeting with the leader of a radical femminist group 

2.0 minute Film 

This was a little short that I did whilte attending the New York Film Academy. It was shot on black and white 16mm film. This is sort of on the experimental side, but I liked how it turned out. I love the close up's on the guy and the girl at the end when they're by the tree. Just watch it, the song is pretty. :) 

9.0 minute Film 

This project was my mid-term at the LA Film School, and it was a scene from the play "This Is Our Youth". The scene was originally meant for two guys, but I switched it up to two girls. This is a very powerful scene and I had so much fun working with my amazing actors, Kasey Buckley, and Tamika Pough. I really enjoyed working with them and I felt that I learned a lot through the process of rehearsing with them. The feel of the scen is very "Thirteen" like and its very in your face. Cory DeLair was my Cinematograher, and Joey Salehi* was my amazing Production Designer. We shot this in a day and I am pretty impressed what my crew pulled off. I think this is definatley my best work thus far. Obviously, looking at it now, there are some changes I would like to make, but hey, it's a work in progress.  

Feature Play 

Directed by Nic De Armendi, this abridged production of Shakespeare's Hamlet is inspired by Rebel Without a Cause, the birth of Rock and Roll and early youthful uprisings of the fifties that gave way to the sixties counterculture.