I was born in East Lansing, Michigan, where I got my bachelor’s degree in creative writing before I moved to Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship. Afterwards I moved to Berlin, where I made short films, wrote scripts, and worked on a variety of feature films, including “When We Leave,” Germany’s 2011 Oscar Submission.

In 2009 I moved to Los Angeles to start UCLA’s MFA Directing program. My first year film “A Son Like You,” had its premiere at the 2012 Florida Film Festival and was recently selected at the Cinemajove film festival in Spain.

I am currently completing my thesis film “the Slaughter,” filmed entirely in Michigan. For next year I have been awarded a DAAD Artist Study Scholarship to return to Berlin to develop a feature with an Oscar-nominated mentor.

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