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I love a good story—hearing it, seeing it, shaping it, sharing it—how it comes to life with an audience. For the past twenty-five years I’ve specialized in story development, immersive experience design and scriptwriting for themed entertainment, including major projects for Disney, SeaWorld, Ringling Bros. Circus and others around the world. I am equally at ease imagining new content, using folklore and fairytales as structural forms, or transforming films and books into compelling live experiences.   I thrive in all forms of collaboration and within the diverse disciplines required to create a themed experience I challenge my creative teams to ask: What is the journey we promise our audience? How are we going to deliver that? And what is the gift they take away?To design an experience like this—connecting the story to its audience—I’ve learned to pay attention to the landscape of communication and how it changes due to geography, culture, language and generation. To make the story relevant, I use the tools of traditional theater alongside cutting-edge technologies, audience interactions, and social media engagements, choosing with my team what serves our story best.Finally, when there is an actual script to be written I tackle it with great joy, using language that is honest and true. And if I’ve done my job as the writer well, there will be very few words nestled inside a whole lot of story. In addition to themed entertainment, I’m the author three plays, three animated short films, eight books and over 30+ short story and poetry publications.