I’m very lucky I get to do what I do. Every day brings new ideas and challenges, with new opportunities to collaborate on something fun and interesting. While working on Heart of Darkness, Orson Welles said, “This is the biggest electric train set a boy ever had!” (He abandoned that project but, c’mon, his first film was Citizen Kane.) And the toys are pretty great! But what’s more, I get to meet new people, see and hear different things and ideas, and go to the most beautiful, exciting, and/or crazy places in the world.
Thanks to my career I’ve been on massive glaciers, active volcanos, and rolling oceans, as well as in the UN General Assembly, international combat zones, and on six of seven continents—if anyone’s shooting in Antarctica, I’m available!
I recently wrapped season one of The Burbs (based on the classic 1989 film) for Peacock, and am finishing up two exciting documentary projects I can’t talk about yet—sorry to be weird. Previous credits include two episodes of limited series Clipped, about the LA Clippers/Donald Sterling scandal, available on Hulu; First Time Female Director, a mockumentary film directed by and starring Chelsea Peretti, streaming on Roku; season one of I Love That For You, starring Vanessa Bayer, Molly Shannon, and Jenifer Lewis for Showtime; season one of Life & Beth, starring Amy Schumer and Michael Cera for Hulu; The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews, also for Hulu; four seasons of Search Party for HBO Max; and the feature comedy Good Boys for Universal Pictures. Other documentary credits include The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers, and Big Men; commercial clients include American Express, Microsoft, The Gap, Sprint, and The Oscars.
Photo by Jeong Park