I found out I was gay at a Christian performing arts camp. I was thirteen years old, smack-dab in the middle of Amish Country, PA, and all of a sudden, I had to become an adult—because all of the adults in my life didn't know what to do with me. But don't worry, because within a few months, I discovered the TV show LOST. And something about it—perhaps the show's characters "coming out" with their own shames and secrets, well—
It became my first dangerous obsession, because it led to my career.
Now I'm a TV writer living and working in Los Angeles. I write high-concept drama and dark comedy—usually featuring misfits who get obsessed like I did (and still do). Recently, I cover the gamut from puzzle-box suspense to unconventional true crime to messy adolescence, sometimes all in one playful package.
And no, I am not Amish.
OTHER OBSESSIONS
The ongoing feud over Vertically-Aligned Nanotube Array (VANTA) Black
Hell-bent high school show choirs (personal experience)
The absurdity of the contemporary high art world
Freakin’ cults, man
Pre-Stonewall queer life (expertise: Victorian era, Pansy Craze, Harlem Renaissance through the 1940s)
CREDITS
FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC: THE ORIGIN (2020-3)
Lifetime / A&E Studios
~ staff writer (2 seasons) ~
“Part 3: The Murderer”
~ teleplay by / television story by ~
BH90210 (2019)
FOX / CBS Studios
episode 4: “The Table Read”
~ written by ~
PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENT
FAIRY TOWN (2024)
~ developed for television by / written by ~
based on the book The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century by Jim Elledge
PageBoy Productions / Mary Grace Productions
director: John Krokidas
showrunner: Paul Sciarrotta
HIT (2021)
~ created by ~
Wondery / Amazon Music