Creative Scholarship & Media Production
This portfolio presents selected professional and creative work that directly informs my teaching in film and media production, film studies, and storytelling. Across these projects, my creative inquiry centers on how narrative meaning is constructed through collaboration, ethical decision-making, and production systems, particularly within narrative film, documentary, and emerging media contexts.My practice spans nonfiction television, feature film, and screenwriting, with a focus on collaborative production, ethical storytelling, and production within real-world constraints. These projects function as practice-based scholarship and serve as case studies I integrate into coursework, mentoring, and project supervision.
Narrative & Screenwriting
This work functions as a site of inquiry into how character, structure, and point of view are developed through iterative writing, revision, and collaboration across the screenwriting and directing process.
Wake — Narrative Feature (Writer/Producer)
Narrative feature film developed through an independent production process and selected as a headlining feature at Cinequest. This project informs my teaching in screenwriting, narrative structure, and directing, with emphasis on character-driven storytelling and revision.
Screenwriting (Television & Narrative Film)
My screenwriting work has been recognized by national competitions including the Academy Nicholl Fellowships and the Austin Film Festival. I draw on this work when teaching fundamental screenwriting and project development, helping students build story structure, character, and visual storytelling skills for the screen.
Documentary, Nonfiction & Unscripted Television
This work functions as a site of inquiry into how nonfiction narratives balance factual integrity, ethical responsibility, and narrative clarity within institutional, editorial, and production constraints.
History Channel Programming — Writer/Producer
I have written and produced narrative content for numerous nonfiction and unscripted television series over multiple seasons, with a particular focus on historical programming that relies on recreations and hybrid documentary forms. Writing recreations requires translating factual material into narrative structure while making careful ethical decisions about representation, compression, and point of view. This work informs my teaching in documentary studies, media ethics, and storytelling under real-world constraints.
Emerging Media & Virtual Production
This work functions as a site of inquiry into how narrative structure, performance, and audience engagement are shaped by virtual production workflows and spatially responsive environments.
Expedition Files — Story Producer (Narrative Writing & Development)
I served as a Story Producer on multiple episodes of Expedition Files, a nonfiction series produced within a virtual production environment utilizing an LED wall. I was responsible for developing narrative structure, writing scripted scenes and dialogue, and shaping story beats designed specifically for immersive, spatially responsive environments.
