Storytelling has been a passion for as long as I can remember. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 13 (for the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise) and haven’t looked back.
A few of my projects and their accolades:
• The Philosophy of Milk (co-written with Lark Meadow) - quarterfinalist in the Nicholls Academy Fellowship 2017, semi-finalist in Final Draft’s Big Break contest 2017
• Skin is currently a semifinalist at the 2019 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest.
• The Moment Between the Blink and the Pull - among the top scripts on Coverfly’s The Red List for Horror (as of 6-25-2019); finalist in the WeScreenplay Feature Competition (2018); top 50 in Roadmap Writers’ Road to New Republic Feature Competition (2018); quarterfinalist in Stage 32’s 2018 Search for New Blood competition
• Crashing Wonderland (co-written with Lark Meadow) - semi-finalist in Screencraft’s 2016 sci-fi screenplay competition
• Girl I Want (co-written with Lark Meadow) - based on I AM MONSTER, the limited series pilot was a semi-finalist at SeriesFest’s Featuring Women Initiative in 2017
• Violet - semi-finalist in The Script Lab’s 2019 free screenplay contest, semi-finalist in Screencraft’s 2018 horror screenplay contest
• Doc - this screenplay won second place at the International Horror Hotel and was named a quarter-finalist at the WeScreenplay International Screenwriting Competition. It was also a quarter finalist at Stage32's Search for New Blood Horror Screenplay 2014 contest, the ScreenCraft 2014 Horror Script Contest, and was a finalist in the Austin Indie Flix Showcase Screenplay Awards 2014.
While I don’t have to direct everything I write, I prefer to write or co-write everything I direct or co-direct. I love creating the images that people will see, suffusing them with how I view the world of my characters. In my earlier work, I not only wrote and directed, but I also shot, edited, and often did the special effects. I love doing those things, but getting collaborators who share the vision and are way more skilled in those arenas frees me up to focus on what I’m bringing to the screen.
Some of my work:
• the trailer for STELLA BUIO (which can be rented or purchased on VHX)
• the full short of aftershock
I’ve also made several music videos. You can find a few of them below:
• “Big Mistake” for John O’Keefe (I created the animation and shot the fire while the figures were made by Austin McKinley)
The poster for I AM MONSTER, the short film that I co-wrote and co-directed with Lark Meadow. The poster was created by Irene Langholm, Lark Meadow, and myself.
The poster for my short film STELLA BUIO, starring legendary Scream Queen Linnea Quigley, was created by Bonni Reid.
Poster I designed for my short film JUSTUS starring Sage Hall-Reinagle and Travis Weston Garner, featuring the voice of legendary scream queen Brinke Stevens.
In 2011, I met someone who would change my life in innumerable ways, all for the better: filmmaker, actress, and entrepreneur Lark Meadow.
In 2013, we collaborated on a short film called I AM MONSTER which took the world by storm, playing at over fifty film festivals over the next year or so. We enjoyed working together so much that we decided to create Double Exposure (Entertainment).
Co-directors and co-writers Lark Meadow and Lori Bowen on the set of I AM MONSTER.
Photo by Amanda Duchow-Hall
The team behind Double Exposure (Entertainment).
Photo by Craig Stidham
Co-director and co-writer Lori Bowen running the slate on the set of I AM MONSTER.
Photo by Amanda Duchow-Hall
