About Me

I chose to pursue a career in entertainment because it was the hardest path in front of me. I have always been good at math. Science came naturally to me. Grades we’re about jumping through hoops.

But movies… movies were mystifying.

In the culture of the suburbs surrounding Salt Lake City, my hometown, everything you do leads back around to getting married, having kids, and perpetuating tradition. Aspirations are toys  you play with until you reach marrying age. Then, of course, your primary aspiration must be your family and your children. Except, this life-plan from heaven didn’t have accommodations for me. I am the only LGBTQ+ person in a blended family of 13 kids. Managing the complexities of such a large family at 7 years old is impossible. I was trained to be present and pleasant to get by. TV was the dusty window I could see the future through. It invited me in and offered more perspectives on the truth. It was a spring of empathy for a boy in a drought. I was 10 years old watching The Next Generation to fall asleep when I thought “There are people out there who do this. Who make movies.” I stopped daydreaming about living on the DS9 and shooting cardassians. Instead, I daydreamed about the teams of writers, artists, technicians, and performers who worked together to tell the story of Benjamin Sisko, who stood for charity, peace, and civility. I decided that I want to know people who courageously contribute to humanities’ cultural identity. And become one myself. I have been dreaming that dream, or chasing that carrot, for as long as I can remember.

10 years into my acting training,  just after my freshman year of college, I started working in the set shop at my university. I was responsible to organize the labor of the lab students and teach them safe practices in the shop. The most important lesson I learned about leadership is that there exist wonderfully smart and well-intentioned people who for the safety of themselves and others should never wield a drill. But give them a blade and they might just whittle you something divine. Don’t hide the knives just because the drilling went poorly.  

I savor learning new things. Since moving to Los Angeles in August 2020, my professional toolkit has grown significantly.

After months of freelancing as a scenic carpenter, I started filling the gaps with PA days. I discovered that I had a lot to offer a production team and I have been pursuing coordinating ever since. I have cultivated a diversity of skills that allow me to be professionally flexible and creatively powerful. I excel at collaborating with diverse points of view to quickly solve problems. I am highly proficient with google drive, excel/google sheets, and Procreate and I have experience reconciling receipts in software like cashet. I have demonstrated a high level of competence leading teams of PA's large and small. My experience as an actor has given me tools to create strong professional relationships with vendors, crew members, and executives alike.