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Working on the Star Wars JEDI franchise

Canada

• Produced Credits:Jesus Freak (Full-Length Play)
• Premiered at Pacific Theatre in the 2018/19 MainStage season, Morris Ertzman directing
• Dramaturgy by Shawn MacDonald, developed with assistance from BC Arts Council The Campaign/L'Élection (TYA Play)
• Commissioned to write a play for teens by Green Thumb Theatre & Théâtre la Seizième, 2015
• Resulting play translated into French by Lyne Barnabe and toured BC in Spring 2017Fritters in Kandahar (Full-Length Play)
• Premiered at Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary, 2015/16 season, Valmai Goggin directing, 2015

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Lead Writer on Journey to Foundation (Playstation VR2, Quest 2), a branching narrative game where I led a team of writers and narrative designers to create a story-driven VR adventure based on Isaac Asimov's iconic I.P.
• Lead writer on MARVEL Dimension of Heroes (Lenovo Mirage AR)
• Lead writer on Freediver: Triton Down for Oculus Rift and Vive (nominated for VR Game of the Year)
• Lead writer on Evasion, a sci-fi VR co-op shooter on Oculus, Vive and PlayStation VR (4 stars - UploadVR)
• Responsible for writing and narrative design for all studio projects in development, including story design (in partnership with game designer and dev leads), writing cutscenes and all in-game dialogue (barks, tutorial.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Instructor, CRWR 310 - Video Game Writing & Narrative
• Responsible for designing and delivering the curriculum, assignments, lectures, and supplemental material for a 300-level course with an enrolment of over a hundred students, as well as supervision of two teaching.
• Designed and delivered a 400-level workshop course for Creative Writing majors on the topic of branching narrative and interactive storytellingInstructor & Content Creator, Writing for Video Games, UBC's edX.
• Created six 6-week courses in all aspects of narrative design, wrote all video lecture materials and assignments, and helped structure the modules for a course that serves tens of thousands of students.
• Supervised the creation of a Masters-level thesis program and mentored one student to graduation.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Contract writer on Dead Rising 4
• Responsible for writing one third of the game experience, including in-game dialogue, barks, found narrative, mission summaries, tutorial text, multiplayer dialogue, scripted events and cutscene rewrites
• Worked collaboratively with Mission Designers, Narrative Designers, Production Managers and management to improve the gameplay experience

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Production management for the critically acclaimed "Cinderella: East Van Panto" at the York Theatre
• Responsibilities include leading all production meetings, logistics, marketing and publicity, contracting, negotiating and managing the budget for a large-scale musical

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Produced "Penelope" by Enda Walsh in the Cultch Historic Theatre, which earned a Jessie Richardson Theatre award for Best Set (Small Theatre) and included pyrotechnics.
• Responsibilities included financial management, budgeting, grant writing, communications, office management, contracting, hiring, re-branding, event planning, strategic planning and production management.

• Taught two terms of the drama portion of Writing 100 (Introduction to Writing)
• Responsible for preparing and delivering 13 lectures, grading assignments, providing individual dramaturgy on stage plays and screenplays, holding regular office hours, preparing exams and submitting grades

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Responsibilities include office administration, organizing press coverage with local media outlets, writing press releases, season marketing, managing front of house, organizing mail-outs, writing newsletters.

Banff

Participated in the development of 21 new plays from across Canada and France.

Masters Of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

Bachelor’S Degree, Theatre/Theater, First Class Honours