My mother likes to point out that I wrote, directed, starred in plays for my birthdays from ages five through eight (I was writing superhero scripts before it was popular). I turned serious about writing when I became an video production major at the High School of Art & Design. My biggest achievements were helping post production on the 1987 Senior Video (the first time a video yearbook had been made for the school) and winning the Medal of Excellence in Audio/Visual Media for that year upon...
My mother likes to point out that I wrote, directed, starred in plays for my birthdays from ages five through eight (I was writing superhero scripts before it was popular). I turned serious about writing when I became an video production major at the High School of Art & Design. My biggest achievements were helping post production on the 1987 Senior Video (the first time a video yearbook had been made for the school) and winning the Medal of Excellence in Audio/Visual Media for that year upon graduating. I made the honor roll in 1986, and received the R.L. Leslie Certificate of Excellence in English upon graduation.
I attended Hunter College-CUNY where I majored in film production, where my script “Racial Cleansing,” a black comedic allegory about racial tensions in laundry, won second place in the Hunter College Short Screenplay. In 1995, I was accepted into Boston University’s Masters degree program in screenwriting. I wrote two full-length screenplays—one original and one adaptation. The original screenplay, “Generocity” was one of the six finalists/winners of the 1996 Scenario Magazine Screenwriting contest, and was accepted into the IFP's (Independent Feature Project) Independent Feature Film Market in 1998. One of my short screenplays, “A Fool's Journey,” took third place in the 1997 Boston University Fleder/Rosenberg short screenplay contest.
I taught screenwriting courses at Boston University, Emerson College, the Newton Adult Education Center, and the Grub Street Writers. In 2006, as a member of NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers), I was accepted into their Writer's Lab where I wrote another full-length screenplay titled “Red Stick Nation.” In 2008, I started production on a web series about an Iraq war soldier communicating with his family in the states titled “Calling Home.” adapting the series into a full length theatrical play, "Calling Home" was awarded Best Full Length Play for the Firehouse Center of the Arts' 20th Annual New Works Festival.
