United States
I'm an actor and the founder of Polaris Pictures, an independent production company developing character-driven narrative features in the register of prestige streaming. My path to founding a production company didn't start in a boardroom — it started on set. As an actor, I learned how a story actually gets built: how performance, tone, and restraint create the intimate, emotionally precise work that stays with an audience. That perspective shapes every decision I make as a producer. I know what a script feels like from the inside, and I build projects that protect the work that matters on screen. But great films aren't made on instinct alone — they're made on infrastructure. I've built the financial and operational architecture that turns a screenplay into a fundable, producible film: investor data rooms, financial models incorporating state film tax credits and multi-scenario recoupment waterfalls, SAG-AFTRA-compliant budgets across low-budget agreement tiers, and the legal groundwork — entity formation, mutual NDAs, use-of-funds frameworks — that serious investors expect. I speak both languages, the creative and the capital, and that's rarer than it should be. Polaris Pictures lives at that intersection. Our debut feature, Still Here, is an intimate prestige drama spanning three generations of women trying to find their way back to each other after a family member's failed attempt to take their own life. It reflects the company's thesis: emotionally rigorous, commercially intelligent independent film that respects both the audience and the people who finance it. I founded Polaris because the industry needs producers who can hold the artistic standard and the business discipline in the same hand. If you're an investor, distributor, collaborator, or fellow filmmaker working in independent narrative and documentary film, I'd welcome a conversation. — [email protected]
Founder of an independent production company developing character-driven narrative features. Lead all development, financing, and business operations — script and slate development, investor packaging (lookbooks, treatments, financial models), film financing strategy, and SAG-AFTRA production planning. Currently developing the debut feature Still Here, an intimate three-generation prestige drama.
Oversaw a partnership between PNC Bank and Carnegie Mellon to capitalize on new technologies and the effectiveness of data to advance the functionality of banks and the services they offer customers.
Responsible for planning the Pittsburgh Signature Chefs Auction and the Transportation, Building & Construction Luncheon for the Western PA Market of the March of Dimes and charged with generating over half a million dollars in annual revenue
Planned Homecoming and other alumni events where I managed numerous stakeholders, organized dozens of events and developed all marketing, while overseeing a budget of $100,000. • Revamped alumni communication through creating a new e-marketing template, revamping website copy/design and founding the Grove City College Facebook fan page to increase alumni participation. • Established the Grove City College Annual Alumni Survey so for the first time not only qualitative data, but also quantitative could be used for departmental planning in Advancement