I took my first film production course my freshman year of high school and have pursued filmmaking ever since. Last spring, I graduated with honors from Southern Methodist University with a B.F.A. in Film and Media Arts and a minor in Arts Management and received the Nash Parsley Memorial Award for Creative Achievement, the program’s highest honor. My most notable experiences were working as the set decorator on SMU’s student-run feature film, The Book of Job, and writing and directing my thesis project, His Eyes Are Blue.

In the fall of 2018, I enrolled in the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU International) in Prague, Czech Republic where I created my own foreign film and worked directly with Czech industry professionals.

In 2019 I interned at Valiant Pictures—a boutique production company in downtown Manhattan. In the office, I read pre-production books, treatments, and scripts, and assisted with editing. On set, I worked as a PA on four commercials and as a second camera assistant on a short film.

I spent December 2020 to January 2021 on a remote ranch in Topsey, Texas working as the assistant director and associate producer for the feature film The Better Part.