Dave Mongan Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Redmond, WA, US

Crafting stories that inspire audiences and ignite the imagination...

Redmond, WA, US

• As Narrative Director on the Xbox Game Studios Publishing team, oversee all narrative-related elements for multiple XBOX franchises, including the upcoming open-world smuggling adventure “Contraband”, the.
• Utilizing creative, collaborative and diplomatic skills, work with external development partners and the internal Xbox Game Studios Publishing team to align on goals/priorities and craft the most compelling game.
• Provide crisp creative direction to help project teams establish consistent tone and identify core themes; then review and edit narrative material at every phase of development, ensuring content meets or exceeds AAA.
• Act as unwavering champion for the player experience, consistently focused on the core player fantasy and opportunities to realize it through narrative channels.
• Engage with members of creative and technical disciplines, leveraging their unique experience, perspective and passion to improve the design and implementation of narrative toolsets.
• With production partners, establish narrative roadmaps to plot the development of systems and content, from concept phase through post-launch/live-ops support.

Redmond, WA, US

• As a member of the Xbox Game Studios Publishing senior leads team, worked with subject matter experts from all game development disciplines to build and grow XBOX first-party franchises such as "Crackdown", "State of.
• Provided concise, compelling and consistent narrative direction to internal and external partners, across all phases of story creation -- from initial story-breaking to dialog writing, storyboarding to cinematic.
• Contributed extensively to creative direction of multiple franchises, in the form of world-building, character creation, cinematic writing, mission dialog, UI text, etc. Additionally, lead a global team of contract.
• Engaged closely with gameplay and technical design teams to build robust open-world narrative systems, from spec creation to implementation and final tuning in-software. At the same time, worked with members of the art.
• In prep for title launches, worked with Marketing, PR and Licensing partners to develop campaigns that would attract & delight consumers and build hype for the release of the game -- including creation of scripts and.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Worked closely with the Creative Director and key studio leads to develop the sci-fi/fantasy universe of “Destiny” and craft long-term story arcs & central characters capable of driving multiple releases.
• Wrote scripts for performance-capture cinematics, narrative voice-over, in-game NPCs, mission dialog, as well as external advertising campaigns; also rewrote other writers’ scripts as necessary.
• Managed and mentored a team of staff & contract writers: led the Writers Room, generated constructive creative feedback, oversaw team productivity, resolved disputes, gave performance reviews and career guidance.
• Drove creative design of an integral mission delivery system aimed at increasing story comprehension; worked with Cinematics, Audio & Design to overcome technical hurdles and achieve implementation.
• Engaged with artists and designers to build deep fiction for the game’s destinations and enemy combatants; then helped infuse that backstory into the fabric of every story mission and cinematic.

• With partners at Industry Entertainment, created original projects for broadcast & cable TV in multiple genres: period crime drama, light-hearted dramedy, serialized dark comedy and supernatural thriller.
• Developed TV adaptation of Brian DePalma's paranormal thriller “The Fury” for production wing of Industry Entertainment.
• Co-wrote the original horror film “Harvest,” about a bloodthirsty Mayan deity known as the Camazotz. (Currently in development with Keith Schoen Entertainment)

US

• As a member of the Writing Team for several seasons, contributed directly to 68 episodes of the long-running, critically-acclaimed drama about the Missing Persons Division of the FBI.
• Wrote multiple episodes, from initial story pitch through final draft; worked closely with Directors, Actors and Producers on-set, covering the daily needs and changes of production; then shepherded episodes through.