When my Father took me to see Star Wars in the theater at a very young age I was forever changed, my fascination with motion pictures forged. I also learned at that time I loved to draw and act, spending summers in classes at the Kalamazoo Art Center and the Kalamazoo Civic Theater’s robust youth program where I found my second home. In my teens I added photography and darkroom enlarging to the mix. I was also exposed to white water canoe tripping at a Canadian summer camp in this era and another key lifelong passion entered my world - being outdoors and championing environmental causes.

In college at the University of Michigan I was blindsided by the opportunity to study Film/Video - overjoyed with the collection of all my artistic passions in one medium and adding a brand new art to the mix, editing. After graduating I fled to Austin, Texas where I soon found the production office of Richard Linklater’s The Newton Boys and my career was underway. A big highlight from those days was getting to work on Mike Judge’s movie Office Space.

Five years later, with experience on a dozen feature-films, I moved back to my home state to produce Michigan-based projects. In 2003 I was awarded an Irving S. Gilmore Emerging Artist Grant to make an experimental documentary about the Kalamazoo River and its connection with the city, and founded Boiling Water Productions to produce Kalamazoo, River: US. In this feature-length ‘docu-musical,’ dueling narrators walk (and sing) through the history of the river leading to its current state as a 90-mile long Superfund site from industrial pollution deposited by the paper industry in the mid-twentieth century. [Click on the logo to watch]