I help tell stories that outlast the formats they're born in.
More than twenty years leading from the maker's seat, across indie films, franchise television, and immersive worlds — the perspective you only get from having done the work.
They survive because someone holds the through-line. New technology re-sequences how things get made long before it replaces anyone; the work is to thin the hype and get to the real work. And the decision rarely lives in the document. It lives in the room.
Recognition — an Emmy · a Sundance Grand Jury nomination · a Cinema Eye Honor
Selected partners — HBO · Disney · Meta · NEON · MACRO · Lionsgate
Earlier — brand & broadcast design for Apple, Sony, and others
About
The stories that matter outlive everyone who tells them. Keeping them true for the audiences still to come is the work I love most, and it's been the same job in every seat I've held, just at different altitudes.
That job once meant creative development and production for the Emmy-winning Game of Thrones main titles at Elastic. Later it meant producing films through an indie fund I structured and led, and later still, prototyping new kinds of interactive experiences with Meta and Disney as chief creative officer of Hexagram. Somewhere in there I picked up an MBA, because the economics quietly decide which stories get to exist.
More than twenty years of seats like those leaves you with scar tissue rather than opinions: a feel for where a story is quietly breaking, and the standing to lead from inside the work.
Technology has been a real love the whole way through. I reach for new tools because of what they open up — for the story, the character, the audience. The tools have changed a dozen times on me, and the job never has.
Selected Works
SAMO LIVES (in post-production) — Producing the Basquiat biopic for NEON, MACRO, and Fifth Season. The kind of story you only get one chance to tell right.
Game of Thrones — Creative development and production for the main titles at Elastic, the opening that mapped the world of Westeros.
Luce — A drama that never lets the audience settle on a verdict. Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee, acquired by NEON, produced through an indie film fund I structured and led.
Dublab — Co-founded one of the first internet radio stations; now a nonprofit institution, 25 years and running.
Hexagram — Chief creative officer, leading interactive experiences and prototypes for partners like Meta and Disney.
Working Together
I take on a small number of advisory and consulting engagements: creative direction, story and IP, production, and the places where storytelling meets new technology. If that's the problem you're chewing on, let's talk.