My background is in cultural journalism, on all levels: writing, editing, and editorial direction. Leadership positions at Stagebill, 7 Days, Interview, Platform.net, Empire, Trace, and Classical TV led to experience in strategic marketing and advertising for global brands-- including creative direction, content development, copywriting, original research and analysis (chiefly, semiotic and ethnographic), and naming.I am currently Editorial Director of InsideRisk, where I wrote Inside Risk/Shadows of Medellin, a full-length participatory experience incorporating film, multimedia and live moderation, which premiered in 2016 at the IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, based on the true story of a kidnapping that took place in Colombia in 1988. I am also Editor-at-Large of Upstate Diary, the up-market print publication focused on art, culture, and home, featuring "creative lifestyles close to nature"-- where my interviews include Annabelle Seldorf, Lucy Sante, Glenn O'Brien, Joan Juliet Buck, Steven Holl, and many others.On the business side, my background has been in tracking, driving, and, when appropriate, monetizing audience behavior in media environments ranging from print to connected TV and cross-platform networks, especially for arts, style, entertainment, and "luxury" content. On the literary side, my 2014 novel, Now and Yesterday (Kensington Books), was featured in Vanity Fair and praised by Kirkus as "a book about big ideas... a life-affirming yet melancholy, John O’Hara–like analysis of post-baby-boom-meets-millennial-queer Big Apple society.” My current novel, Such Good Friends (Kensington), centers on the friendship between Truman Capote and Lee Radziwill. My screenwriting credits include Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood, a coproduction of Giants Are Small with Deutsche Grammophon, narrated by Alice Cooper and released as an app in 2015 (“Best New Apps” and “Editors Pick,” iTunes). Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood: The Live Show was premiered in May, 2017 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. I am a co-founder, with Anthony Evrard, of Court 16 ("Tennis Remixed"), with four clubs in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens ("Best of New York," New York Magazine). I am also Executive Director and a co-founder of the Ferro-Grumley Award, for 30 years the premier honor for LGBTQ fiction.
Listed skills include New Media, Copywriting, Content Strategy, Editorial, and 15 others.