AWARDS
Academy Awards, Best Live Action Short Film Nominee for Please Hold, 2022
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Emergency, Sundance Film Festival, 2022
Grand Jury Prize for Please Hold, Florida Film Festival, 2022
The Black List, 2020 – Emergency, 21 mentions
Best Narrative Short for Emergency, SXSW, 2018
Special Jury Award for Emergency, Sundance Film Festival, 2018
Best Screenplay, Showtime’s Tony Cox Screenwriting Competition, Nantucket Film Festival, 2015
FELLOWSHIPS
Film Independent Project Involve Fellow, 2016
Universal Pictures Emerging Writers Fellow, 2015-16
Resident Writer at the Screenwriters Colony, 2015
SCHOOL STUFF
Graduated from USC with Thesis Distinction for feature script Counterintelligence, 2013
Recipient of the Rock Hudson Scholarship at USC School of Cinematic Arts, 2011
One of ten students selected to write a creative senior thesis at Princeton University, 2010
Winner of the F.O. Kelsey Prize in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, 2010