East of Middle West
Best American Indie — Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
Audience Award — Sarasota Film Festival.
My role: associate producer and script supervisor.
ProjectRecognition
Professional affiliations, development programs, project awards, and research support.
Professional affiliations
- Member, Directors Guild of America
- Member, Television Academy
- WGA-eligible writer
- Additional affiliations: Film Independent, Women in Film, and NALIP.
Screenwriting development
- Stowe Story Labs, 2025 Remote Writers' Retreat — Soft Launch.
- Stowe Story Labs, 2025 Fall Feature Campus — god's favorite angels.
Project recognition
The following awards and screenings recognize the projects and their teams.
Layaway
Audience Award — Chelsea Film Festival.
Best Student Film — Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival.
My role: producer.
Project#millcore
Trailer screening at the inaugural Adult Swim Festival. Subsequent screenings at Central States Indie Film Festival and Women's Comedy Film Festival.
My roles include director, co-writer, executive producer, co-editor, and actor.
ProjectPainting with Light
Second place — First in the Nation Film Festival.
My roles include co-director, co-writer, editor, sound editor, and actor.
ProjectGrants + fellowships
2025–26
Elon Innovation Grant
Hot Minute: A Community-Embedded Web Series Production Lab.
2026
Writing Pedagogy Grant
Center for Writing Excellence.
2024–25
Elon Fund for Excellence
Cinematic Bridges, co-submitted with Lina Kuhn.
2023
Writing Pedagogy Grant
Multimodal composing and videographic essay work with Dan Burns.
2022
Teaching + Learning Grant
Cross-disciplinary film and media analysis.
2021
New Faculty Summer Research
Office of the Provost, Elon University.
2019
Obermann Center Fellowship
University of Iowa.
Fulbright experience
Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2014–2015. Dutch language study and teaching English.