California native.  Born in Los Angeles after my parents moved there from Chicago, where my father wrote for television after WWII and college.  Have lived in San Fernando Valley, Orange County, Palo Alto, Florence (Italy), Washington, D.C., New Haven (Connecticut), West Los Angeles, Germany, and Sacramento.  Currently live in Pasadena, California.  Stanford undergrad.  Played basketball until hurt my sophomore year, Yale Law School.  

Non-lawyer jobs include assembling board games, gas station attendant, assembling yachts, picking up trash at the beach, washing dorm windows, maintenance at a golf course, painting the take off boards for the long jump and triple jump (jock job, where I was literally paid between coats to watch paint dry), janitorial work at Sears, paralegal at the U.S. Justice Department.  Legal jobs include judicial law clerk, federal prosecutor, law professor, and federal public defender.  

I genuinely enjoy writing scripts and I appreciate any and all who read them.  As of December, 2020, I've completed twelve screenplays and one television pilot.  Just started seriously entering screenwriting contests and actively seeking a manager/agent.  So, in anticipation of the responses or lack thereof, I'm trying to grow a thick skin over the holidays (well, what used to be holidays).   Gonna try my hand at some shorts now.  Then back to more features, and probably another pilot, after New Year's Day.  

Stay healthy everyone and hang in there.  There is a light at the end of the pandemic dark tunnel.