Delivers high-impact events that exceeded client expectations, showcasing strong project management and creative skills. Majority of time in primary leadership role. Career highlights below.Art directed and led a team of 50+ for two major music festivals across multiple historic venues, enhancing venue utilization and boosting event impact/brand loyalty through innovative event narrative design.Worked on multiple virtual experiences in 2020/21 driving client engagement for new formats during lockdown.Produced and directed 360 variety show for Live Nation at The Wiltern, showcasing unique venue uses, reducing dark nights, and increasing audience loyalty.

Have worked closely with clients to understand their needs, ensuring satisfaction and fostering long-term professional relationships. Led creative projects, producing high-quality visual content; collaborated with clients to capture vision, enhancing brand presence by meeting tight deadlines and exceeding client expectations through technical skill and creative problem solving. Clients include TikTok, Eeeeeeatscon, iHeartMedia, LACMA, AT&T, LA Pride, Myspace, Vice, Gothamist Network, KPCC, and NY Mag. Carreer highlights below.Head of the live imaging team for the first west coast edition of China’s Modern Sky Music FestivalWorked with Pizza Hut to created brand images with actors and directors at Sundance. Spent 3 years working with LACMA as a photographer for marketing department, culminating in creating a series of portraits of museum goers in Jesús Rafael Soto’s "Penetrable" Published in Rolling Stone, Billboard, and the LA Times. Served as visual researcher for 2 Apple ad campaigns.

Award winning and critically acclaimed immersive theatre artist with 30 runs of 18 original pieces.Pioneered interactive theatre techniques and conceptualized/executed groundbreaking site-specific theatre projects, pushing the boundaries of traditional theatre and enriching audience experience. Secured funding for productions. Managed all aspects of production, from casting to set design, ensuring meticulous attention to detail for consistently high-quality performances. Known for fostering a collaborative and safe environment for both staff and audience to achieve artistic excellence. Show highlights below.INFINITELY DINNER SOCIETY: Math-based food tastings that juxtapose concepts involving infinity against unique pieces of performance art. Featured in LA Weekly & Culture trip. Individual commissions have been done for private clients a well as for The Overlook Film Festival in 2018.THE ABC PROJECT: Multiple award-winning site-specific theatre series. Featured in Stage Raw, LA Weekly, LAist, TimeOut, Portland Mercury, and other outlets. Presented at the Overlook Film Festival in 2017.!!!!!!!!!!CAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!: Fully improvised interactive summer camp comedy show with runs in LA and Vegas. Nominated for BEST TWO PERSON SHOW at Hollywood Fringe.PICNIC PARTY: Series of positive affirmation silent discos meant to improve mental health and battle the loneliness epidemic by fostering community/connection

Directed all aspects of performances at LA's Premiere Halloween attraction, enhancing visitor experience.Recruited, cast, & managed a team of 200 performers and related staff, ensuring seamless operations.Developed & implemented new safety guidelines, significantly improving performer/audience safety standards.Improved working conditions, increasing employee morale. This led to a 20% increase in employee retention.

Awarded by the Arts Council Long Beach in conjunction with the California Art Council a grant to spend a year producing a series of immersive audio walking experiences that educate on earthquake preparedness as well as systemic inequities post-natural disasters. This is being done in conjunction with my Artist-In-Residency position at Amazing Grace Conservatory who are Non-Porfit Grant Recipients.Artist grantee alongside nonprofit partner grantee Amazing Grace Conservatory. Coordinated with AGC to produce educational/interactive art, fostering community resilience and support for local small businesses.Directed experiential audio projects, significantly boosting awareness of systemic inequalities post-disasters.Produced impactful events that led to measurable increases in earthquake preparedness actions, social justice awareness, and local business support among constituents.Pioneered creative educational initiatives teaching Augmented Reality, Set Design, and Game Design to black and brown students empowering them to create artwork that affected change in their community.Led creation of website that houses digital and accessible versions of all art.Facilitated partnerships with local small businesses and community leaders.Worked alongside CERT and LAFD teams to organize live safety demonstrations ft. student performers.

A three-pillar residency in conjunction with my Creative Corps Grant project.1. Working to incorporate Amazing Grace students, alumni, and community members into my Creative Corps Grant project.2. Helping create immersive elements for the current productions at Amazing Grace.3. Artist-As-Educator. Teaching immersive creation to the students of Amazing Grace.

Built sets for live Twitch and Zoom performances for a virtual nightclub as well as performed and wrote original scripts for unique one off experiences.

Interactive online experience and comedy web series where what the audience does in a Slack channel affects what happens in a weekly Zoom meeting with various interactive elements throughout game play. Based on the concept of our audience being new hires tasked with saving a company threatened by Covid-19 Lockdown.

When needed will come in temporarily and do visual research.

Creator of both a haunted house focusing on the senses of touch and hearing and a unique bar/lounge designed based on urban legends from around the world. The event had a sold-out run. “...extremely beautiful and evocative..genuinely creepy and unnerving.”-Haunting.net

Photographer for Chicagoist, SFist and LAist.

Pitch, write and produce features. Photograph portraits and events to accompany features.

Photograph and write reviews of live concerts and music festivals. Photograph portraits of and conduct interviews with artists.

Write reviews of and photograph concerts and events

Kept Experience in Line with DreamWorks’ Brand Message; Personalized Experience in DreamWorks DreamPlace to Individual Families; Helped Deliver Sponsor Copy; Wrote Copy for ADT and Microsoft Sponsorship; Trained Photographers

Office Management, Coordinated Client Hospitality, Assisted in Writing Copy, Transcribed Features, Transcribed Trailers, Managed Fiber Lines, Covered Phones, Conducted Research, Helped on Set, Runs, Assisted Managing Office Security, Handled Confidential Materials

Booked theaters. Made contacts for distribution. Organized producer's calendar. Researched potential investors. Conducted research. Handled film festival relations.

Created press releases. Booked talent. Distributed press and pitch materials. Took notes. Set up vendor relations. Organized and wrote up pitch materials. Conducted research. Creatively solved problems.

Photography and Web Series Development, Writing and Production

Writing, Script Coverage, and Staffing Assistance; Research; Rolling Calls; Coordinating betweenNetworks, Casting, Agents, and Show Runner; Managing Calendar; Booking Travel; Runs

Wrote and took photos for city guide. Published online and in interactive Android/iOS app.

Script Coverage; Research; Roling Calls; Organized Script Library

Wrote reviews and photographed events

Babysitter and Camp Counselor at NY City Explorers, which is known for having some of the most educational and fun childcare experiences in New York City.

My general responsibilities were as follows:1. Document events that took place at LPR through photography2. Greet artists and performers and explain LPR’s philosophies3. Design posters for shows4. Document the office and behind the scenes life at LPR through photography

Photograph and do write ups of different art events in New York, and sometimes other cities

Designed Set Pieces, Logos, and Posters; Functioned as Art PA

Photographed bars, restaurants, stores, and other local places of interest

Distributed schedules and script rundowns; Loaded and unloaded audience; Coordinated audience standby list; Day to day assistance with props, transcribing, and research; Shadowed Writer Glenn Eichler (creator of Daria)

Produced, directed and wrote field pieces for the website UnderTheArch.tv

I founded and ran this short lived online magazine which was meant to support all forms of art.

Photographed promotional materials

Promoter: Get people to go on underground bar tours of the Red-light district in Amsterdam.Guide: Show people underground bars in the Red-light district of Amsterdam/Keep track of those on tour/Make sure all of those on tour are being catered to.

Convince people to come see Boom Chicago shows with my zeal and improv know how (wink).

At Umelec magazine I have worked as an editorial intern. Most of my work includes copy editing, fact checking, and layout critique.

I helped select clothes for photo shoots and assisted on photo shoots.

Photographed shows

I collaborated to help create Mr. Dubren’s artwork using digital design techniques and documented inventory through photography and databases.

I photograph and videograph shows and promotions as well as designing promotional materials.

I had the following responsiblities:•Researched plays and made initial contacts for development•Designed advertisements•Expanded Subscriber Base•Organized Theater’s Headshots, Greenroom, and Costume/Props room•Organized Mailings

Photographed shows and archived photographs. Also took promotional photographs and helped design promotions.

Organized databases and RSVPs.

Photographed Concerts and Events for Universal Music Group

Photographed Comedy Shows

Photograph stand up acts and promo shots

Performed original poetry

Worked on screenplay, shooting and editing video, as well as on sound and lighting.

Made phone calls, organized databases, organized spread sheets, wrote letters and emails, made faxes, ran errands, and took on any other administrative duties that were given to me.

Organized paychecks and mailings.

Taught Chinese children English.

Taught children arts and crafts and helped clean up kids' workspaces.