Original features, television pilots, and series in development.
I write about power, intimacy, class, technology, and the roles people perform to feel stable. Dark comedy is often a way into those questions.
Screenwriting sits alongside my directing and producing work. I am interested in what a character believes is reasonable, what they need from another person, and what happens when the rules holding a scene together stop working.
PracticeAfter years of addiction and estrangement, a woman returns to her college town for a friend’s wedding, only to find her group chat of misfit friends dragging her into the same reckless patterns she is desperate to escape.
Role: Writer / Director / Producer
A status-obsessed Chicagoan’s plans to inherit his father’s empire derail when a surprise half-sister claims half the estate, leaving him stuck navigating sibling rivalry, identity crises, and the business of growing up.
Role: Writer
When a recovering addict returns to her Iowa hometown after her long-missing brother is found alive under mysterious circumstances, she and her twin sister uncover a family legacy of psychological experiments, buried trauma, and a sinister cult that blurs memory, dream, and reality.
Role: Writer
A disgraced journalism student seeks a fresh start in Hollywood with her estranged college friends, but their lives spiral toward one wrong move that could leave them and everything they know up in flames.
Role: Co-writer
Co-written with Jesse Riback
After getting dumped and losing his estranged uncle in the same night, a directionless military veteran and NYU finance student inherits his uncle’s independent punk recording studio in Brooklyn along with a chaotic indie band that expects him to manage its future.
Role: Writer
Written by Kai Swanson; story by Lucas McKeown
When an 18-year-old skater-influencer becomes the unlikely breakout star of a chaotic prestige reboot set against a rapidly changing Los Angeles, the older sister who raised and manages him follows him west, where sudden fame, sex, anxiety, ambition and a volatile found family begin dismantling the sibling relationship that has defined both of their lives.
Role: Creator / Director
In 2025, I participated in Stowe Story Labs' Remote Writers' Retreat with Soft Launch and Fall Feature Campus with god's favorite angels.
For screenplay commissions, development, adaptations, or a conversation about an original project, please get in touch.