NEWS

Upcoming (June 2026): Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference (selected participant)

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Upcoming (June 2026): Changing Climate, Changing Lives Film Festival: Bangkok, Thailand (workshop presenter)

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Upcoming (April-May 2026): Climate Spring "Developing Stories for a Changing World" screen industry professional program (facilitator)

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Upcoming (March 2026): Climate Storytelling Toolkit, commissioned by Producers Guild of America, goes live

 

Upcoming (March 2026): NYC Green Office Hours (NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment )

 

Oct 2025 Venice Biennale College Cinema; Venice, Italy (tutor)

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Sep 2025 Creative Climate Forum – Human Impacts Institute, Pier 57 (presenter)

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Sep 2025 "Zeitgeist: Harnessing the Storms of Change" - Climate Film Festival, NYC (presenter)

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Sep 2025: Global Rise Interdisciplinary Site-Specific Storytelling Workshop for Creatives with Lydia Dean Pilcher and Abby Rabinowitz, Los Angeles (convener and presenter)

 

June 2025: Torino Film Lab Next Green Narratives (tutor and presenter)

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May-July 2025: Orion Magazine's Writing Rhizomatically Nonfiction Writing Workshop (participant)

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May 2025: Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab (mentor)

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April 2025: RISE UP Interdisciplinary Climate Storytelling Workshop for Creatives with Lydia Dean Pilcher and Abby Rabinowitz (convener and presenter)

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December 2024: Interviewed on Scriptcake Podcast (click here to listen)

 

October 2024: Nostos Screenwriting Retreat; Arezzo, Italy (mentor)

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Sept-Oct 2024: Climate Spring (UK)/Torino Film Lab Changing Climate Narratives professional development programme (participant)

 

September 2024: Sundance Co//ab From Idea to Story: A Development Workshop (instructor)

 

July 2024: Sundance Co//ab Weekend Intensive in Alternative Scriptwriting (instructor)

 

June 2024: Hollywood Climate Summit; Los Angeles, CA (participant)

 

June 2024: Arts and Climate Incubator; New York, NY (participant)

 

May 2024: Cine Qua Non Lab (mentor)

 

May 2024: Nominated for David Payne-Carter Award for Excellence in Teaching

 

April 2024: Sundance Co//ab Masterclass in Climate Storytelling (instructor)

 

September 2023: Appointed Area Head of Screenwriting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dramatic Writing

 

May 2023: Graduated from Columbia University’s MFA Writing Program in Nonfiction

 

Jan 2023: Publication of Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen (author)