I think like an architect. Premise is the foundation. Character forms the load-bearing structure and drives the story. Theme provides texture, like the choice of materials in a house: subliminally felt throughout. My stories explore identity, perception, desire, and the choices people make under pressure.
My scripts move across psychological thrillers, neo-noir, dark comedies, romantic dramas, magical realism, and supernatural horror, but the conflict is always personal. A gay man assumes his dead female best friend’s identity. Three women conceal a body. Estranged lovers wake up in each other’s bodies. Two former lovers, each believing the other dead, unknowingly live across the same garden. A guilt-ridden teenager follows the ghost of his dead twin underground.
Place is integral to my work. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico City, Scotland, London, and Buenos Aires are not backdrops, but environments that shape character, morality, and consequence.
FEATURE FILMS
GOOD TASTE
Psychological Thriller | Feature
When a reckless rich daddy’s girl dies in her own pool, her gay best friend covers it up, remakes himself in her image, and takes over her life, turning her failing gallery into a success while deceiving her controlling father and dangerous lover.
Awards & Recognition
Official Selection, All Americas International Film Festival
THE NICE ROOM
Crime Thriller / Dark Comedy | Feature
When three expat women find their new roommate dead with a suitcase of cash on Christmas Eve, one bad decision spirals into three tequila- and cocaine-fueled days of paranoia, bad lies, and increasingly terrible
choices.
Awards & Recognition
Best Feature Screenplay, World International Movie Awards
Jury Award for Best Comedy, World International Movie Awards
Semifinalist, Dublin Movie Awards
BEFORE WE WERE AFRAID
Supernatural Horror | Feature
Lured into San Miguel’s legendary tunnels by the ghost of his dead twin, a guilt-ridden teenager and five friends must confront their deepest fears to break a witch’s curse that has frozen children’s souls in time, or remain trapped with them forever.
Awards & Recognition
Top Finalist, Hollywood Genre Horror Screenplay Contest
Quarterfinalist, ISA & Script Pipeline Great Pitch Competition
Semifinalist, Cleveland Arthouse Film Awards
ODE TO VIOLETA
Romantic Drama | Feature
In a private London garden, two love stories unfold across generations: while two ambitious workaholics navigate a budding romance, their employers—a reclusive spiritual podcaster and a blind composer—unknowingly live mere steps from the lover each believed dead for thirty years.
Awards & Recognition
Best Script, Toronto International Women Film Festival
Semifinalist, London International Filmmakers Festival
Official Selection, London Lift-Off Film Festival
Official Selection, Chicago Script Awards
SAN MIGUEL EXMAS MIXUP
Magical Realism Holiday Comedy | Feature
When an aspiring novelist and her tightly wound British ex wake up in each other’s bodies days before a destination Christmas wedding in San Miguel de Allende, they must bluff their way through spa days, dress fittings, and mystical interventions—while reckoning with the assumptions
that destroyed their relationship.
Awards & Recognition
Top 50, ISA & Script Pipeline Great Pitch Competition
Second Round Selection, ISA Diversity Initiative
Semifinalist, Dublin Movie Awards
Quarterfinalist, ISA Emerging Screenwriters Competition
Quarterfinalist, San Francisco International Screenwriters Competition
BURIED IN LIGHT
Neo-Noir Thriller | Feature
When a young woman returns to her hometown to revive a historic cantina with her volatile husband, his contract to have her killed backfires. Now she must outmaneuver his ruthless brother in a deadly cat-and-mouse to claim her freedom and a new chance at life.
Awards & Recognition
Semifinalist, ISA Emerging Screenwriters Thriller Competition
Official Selection, Synergy Film Festival
Semifinalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Quarterfinalist, ISA & Script Pipeline Great Pitch Competition
Semifinalist, San Francisco International Screenwriting Competition
HEAVENLY MANNA
Neo-Noir Dark Comedy | Feature
A runaway twin, a reclusive author, and a stolen fortune ignite bedlam in a Scottish fishing village when secrets and mistaken identities collide at a bachelor auction gone hilariously off the rails.
Awards & Recognition
Semifinalist, Edinburgh Film Awards
Semifinalist, Dublin Movie Awards
TELEVISION
THE BELIEVER
Near-Future Dystopian Thriller | One-Hour Pilot
In a future where a powerful corporation controls faith, a deaf ex-military chaplain returns to Lake Tahoe to investigate her childhood love, whose secret miracles threaten the regime’s hold over belief itself.
Awards & Recognition
Semifinalist, Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest
Semifinalist, Page Turner Feature & TV Pilot Drama Competition
Quarterfinalist, The Script Lab Screenplay Contest
Selected Project, Nostos Screenwriting Retreat
UNWRITTEN
Romantic Drama | Half-Hour Series
When a blocked novelist living a predictable married life in San Miguel de Allende is drawn out of hiding by a younger superstar DJ who understands the woman buried inside her five-year-old bestselling novel, she risks her marriage and the false safety she has mistaken for happiness to find out whether desire can unleash the storm.