Executive, producer, writer, designer, technologist, and strategist with a deep, sophisticated understanding of the worldwide entertainment and media ecosystem.

Film, Television & New Media Production and Consulting. Esoteric Consulting and Investigation.

Ed Solomon, Showrunner; Steven Soderbergh, Director; Casey Silver, Producer. Starring Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant, Dennis Quaid, Jharrell Jerome, CCH Pounder. Point person for cutting edge New Media Branching Narrative version which was cancelled and rolled into Limited Series due to limited time. On staff from inception through post.

Point person for cutting edge New Media Branching Narrative version which was cancelled and rolled into Limited Series at the last minute due to time and budget.

Dramaturg and researcher for A-List screenwriter / producer on projects for major production companies, studios, streamers and networks.

Think of this and all the “Consultant” roles below as what a Staff Writer does in a television room — In collaboration with the principal, credited writer(s), I broke story, created characters and structure, wrote scenes and ancillary texts (eg what’s on a computer screen in a scene), assessed and challenged the principals’s ideas, and did research. I also gave notes through the entire production including dailies and post, advised on production business decisions, and worked extensively on development of film, television and interactive projects that did not get made.

Story Consulting & Research. Written & Directed by David O. Russell. Starring Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington

Story Consulting & Research on pilot for CBS series based on Clarice Starling, the main character of Silence of the Lambs.

Conceptualization & development of interactive branching narrative format segment of transmedia project. See above for detail.

Research & Story Consulting on pilot.

Story Consulting & Research. Alex Kurtzman, Writer/Director/Producer. Starring Tom Cruise

Despite the technical name, this is the production company of A-List screenwriter, Ed Solomon. (Men in Black, Charlie’s Angels, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, etc.)

Graphic design for props, VFX using AfterEffects

Graphic design for props, VFX using AfterEffects

Produced, conceptualized and guided rewrite & reshoot / Post Production Producer through delivery. This was an independent film that was initially unreleasable. I was hired to “fix” it and take it through post, doing a surgical rewrite/reshoot which improved the film immensely. It was sold to Anchor Bay for direct to DVD release, (which was all it was ever going to achieve). Budget ended up slightly over $1 million. Starring Aimee Teegarden, Lance Hendrickson, Patricia Richardson

Responsible for operations and all aspects of live-action production of short-form programming, promos & commercials for clients including Discovery Channel, FX, Warner Bros., and other networks, production companies & advertising agencies.

Also: Cinematographer, Title Design/Graphics, Music Supervisor. Documentary about the 2003California gubernatorial recall election following one of the 134 candidates who ultimately lost to Arnold Schwarzenegger

All aspects of production, with an emphasis on Digital Production and Post-Production Technology, as well as Script Consulting, Budgeting & Production Audit, Marketing. Projects include the digital feature “Scream at the Sound of the Beep”.

Producer of anti-Iraq war play written by Nick Kazan, starring Clancy Brown, Kaitlin Doubleday, Zoe Kazan.

Post-Production for Video-Motion Graphics Presentation for Intel’s opening presentation for the CES Show in Las Vegas in January 2005.

Research and development of the reboot of the iconic television show, In Search Of, working directly with legendary producer Alan Landsberg and hot just off the success of Blair Witch Project production company, Haxan Films

Development, research & technical consulting on projects with director F. Gary Gray under his overall with New Regency. Projects include: Crowded Room, Black Knight

Digital Short Film

Development of cable & network movies, including “Soul of the Game” (HBO), “Bastard Out of Carolina” (Showtime).

Videowall Programming & Design

Development of independent features. “How to Get Laid at the End of the World” (Independent Digital Feature produced in 1999), “Nightvision” (Independent Feature).

Documentary Short about homelessness in Los Angeles funded by Comic Relief

Wrote & produced fundraising video documentary for refugees organization based in Los Angeles, part of the Annual Academy Awards event described below

Freelance Clients include: Curtco Freedom Group, Flicker Media, Fries Multimedia, Glyhpix Design, Home Theatre Magazine, IBM, Ideaology Advertising, MGM Home Video, Radiology Advertising, Rysher Entertainment, Screenmancer Pictures, SMD Productions, LLC, Stanford University Press, Summit Entertainment

Coordinated production & designed print advertising for clients including the American Civil Liberties Union, The Committee to Defend the Constitution, & MoveOn.org.

Wrote and researched Press Kits on domestic violence for fundraising events.

Creative Director for digital photography gallery and studio the first year Photoshop was released.

Responsible for PR efforts of ad hoc group of L.A. artists during the NEA court battles of the 1990’s.

Created and coordinated special political media project on CIA involvement in human rights abuses in El Salvador. Wrote press materials and coordinated with international Human Rights organizations and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Commissioned by Dominique DeMenil.

Technical Producer for Big Green Benefit following the opening night performance.

Car Dealer Show, San Francisco, CA. A spectacle level multi-media event with multiple producers, Budget: $7 million.

Development of variety television benefit concert special.

Technical Producer for event at Union Station featuring the cast of the television show

5 stage 4th of July Country & Blues Music Festival in San Bernadino

Fundraising event producer

Produced Premiere at the Wilshire Ebell Theater, featuring Marty Balin, and other fundraising events for Academy Award nominated feature documentary

Booked Bonnie Raitt & Elayne Boosler for Gala Fundraising Dinner in Washington, DC

Production consultant for fundraising gala.

Consulted on the Los Angeles show at the LA Coliseum in this historic tour, with Peter Gabriel, Sting, Jackson Browne, et.al.

Technical consultant for fundraising gala.

Official history of the Bill & Ted movies. Commissioned by the creators of the franchise.

Editor of book of essays by leading film and television writers for the Writers Guild Foundation, published in hardcover October 2000 by PublicAffairs, an imprint of HarperCollins, and in paperback by Da Capo. Foreword by William Goldman; essays by 56 major film and television writers from Alan Alda to Steve Zaillian. Still in print and assigned in film schools over two decades later.

Speech on Labor Day weekend, 2023. Less than one month later, the WGA strike ended.

Guest Lecturer on feature film development for screenwriting program

Panelists: Tina Andrews, Richard LaGravanese, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, and Richard Wesley.

Created course “Ahead of the Curve – Advanced Concepts in Film Development: The Relationship Between Story and Market.”

Jane Fonda’s revival of the McCarthy-Era entertainment industry coalition to protect our fundamental civil rights. https://www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com/

Remaking Myths: The Jewish Origins of Horror, Fantasy, and Folklore – October 2025

Produced Panels / Consulted on production and promotion of screenwriting.

Planning and production of fundraising events, workshops and seminars on independent film.