Pilots. Podcasts. Puppets and Plays.
Converso
One-Hour Episodic TV | Historical Adventure Drama
Amidst the Spanish Inquisition, a Jewish mercenary leads a ragtag team of renegade misfits on a search for fortune, family, and revenge against corrupt clergy who turned them into pariahs.
COMPS: Firefly, The Last Kingdom, The Mandalorian
#1 Rated pilot on The Black List.
Bloom
One-Hour Episodic TV | Sci-Fi Crime Procedural
A disillusioned amputee works security aboard a space station full of planetary refugees, investigating crimes of the rich and desperate while she searches for the truth behind the Bloom, a deadly plant spore ravaging Earth.
COMPS: The Expanse, Killjoys, Snowpiercer
The Republic of West Florida
One-Hour Serial TV | Satirical Political Drama
An idealistic Yankee struggles to steer a gaggle of opportunists, insurrectionists, and blowhards towards Democracy after convincing them to found The Republic of West Florida, an actual country established in 1810 and destroyed in... 1810.
COMPS: The Great, Deadwood, Veep
Finalist - Trackingb TV Pilot Contest
Reader Recommended on The Black List
Newts!
Surf-rock Musical Podcast. From PRX & The Truth
Inspired by the work of Czech science fiction pioneer Karel Capek, Newts! chronicles an alternate history of the 20th Century in which the western world discovers, exploits, educates, arms, and is ultimately overthrown by a species of highly intelligent amphibians.
Named one of Vulture’s “10 Podcasts We Can’t Wait to Listen to This Summer” and nominated for Best Fiction Podcast of 2022 by The Podcast Academy, Newts! is a farcical yet deadly serious story about self-interest and human nature.
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Sox News
Half-hour Political Puppet Satire
Sox News is a behind-the-scenes political sitcom about the conservative media’s race to the bottom in a desperate attempt to get back to the top. With Sesame Street talent and high quality sock puppets. Fair. Balanced. 100% Cotton.
Sox News screened at SeriesFest, NYTVF, & ITVFest, where it was awarded Best Writing.
Song of the North
Cinematic Shadow Puppet Theater.
Song of the North is a large-scale, cinematic performance combining shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell the tale of Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia, who must use all her strengths and talents to rescue her beloved, Bijan, and help prevent a war. Created by Hamid Rahmanian and adapted from the Book of Kings (Shahnamed) — Song of the North, challenges the Eurocentric worldview of art and storytelling through a contemporary multimedia experience of this classic Persian tale.
Song of the North premiered in February, 2022 at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, France. It has since performed at BAM, in NYC, and the Festival Iberoamericano, in Bogata, Colombia.
Information about upcoming tour dates available here.
All Vows
Puppet Memory Play
All Vows is a diasporic memory play about inheritance, myth-making, and the possibly true life of my grandfather, Poppy, a Jewish refugee who grew up in China.
We didn’t talk much about my Poppy growing up, but I was always proud of what I knew about him: how he grew up in China after his family fled the Russian Revolution, how he taught himself Italian while in medical school in Bologna, how he became a surgeon in Shanghai before fleeing again, this time for America at the dawn of the Cultural Revolution. His was a story of resilience, worldliness, and drive. And since he died when I was four, I was content with its broad strokes—until an old photo re-surfaced last year, leading me to question just about every memory I had of the man.
The show features five puppet portraits of Poppy throughout his life, accompanied by spoken text, recorded interviews with my father, and home video footage
All Vows was developed with support from the Jim Henson Foundation, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and the Morris Museum. It premiered in May, 2022.
