I’ve devoted my creative life to mastering the tapestry of skills required to transform ideas into cinematic, emotional experience. I knew at a young age that I wanted to make movies and with the help of a team of extraordinary colleagues, I’ve achieved that goal.

LILLY, starring Patricia Clarkson, John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski tells the story of Lilly Ledbetter, an Alabama tire factory worker whose quest for justice, from being cheated out of a fair salary because of her sex, transforms her into a tenacious leader. LILLY had her world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival October 2024, then traveled to the Denver Film Festival where Patricia Clarkson was honored with the John Cassavetes Lifetime Achievement Award. The Palm Springs International Film Festival will kick off LILLY’s 2025 festival run, along with social impact screenings and a theatrical run starting in April.

I’ve directed series television for ABC, CBS, NBC, MGM, Netflix, Amazon, SyFy and Lifetime, most recently the pilot and first season of “The Baxters,” as well as multiple episodes of “Blue Bloods,” “The Rookie” and “Criminal Minds.” Steven Bochco gave me my first guild job directing, “Doogie Howser, M.D.” My award-winning short films have been broadcast on HBO, PBS and Showtime, produced on grants from The Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, AFI, Kodak and Panavision.

The screenplay for LILLY was selected for the Athena List, Breaking Through the Lens, and was awarded a NYWFT Ravenal Foundation Grant. My pilot KINKS won the ScreenCraft Best Pilot Award, WGA Best Spec Pilot, WGA Drama Queens, and was the US selection for Cannes Series MIPTV. Other screenplays have been produced by Lifetime Television and optioned by Double Nickel Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions, Mark Canton, Lakeshore Entertainment, eOne and ABCFamily.

My undergraduate degree is from Sarah Lawrence College and Parsons School of Design. I have an MFA from NYU in film directing, where my graduate thesis film won Best Short film at New York and Chicago film festivals. After film school, I worked as a storyboard artist for well-known directors on studio pictures. As a professional child actor, I sang jingles with Louis Armstrong, hawked Jell-o with Bill Cosby, and was the voice of Lucy in Peanuts animation.

From the Bronx, I’m forever linked to a New York state of mind despite living in Los Angeles for more than half my life. The third child and only girl born to first generation Americans, my perspective is imbued with a birthright sensitivity to societal hierarchies that’s led to a fascination with justice. I believe in the power of story to affect culture.