34th American Cinematheque Awards Honoring Spike Lee

Refreshing the A.C. brand and format for a farther-reaching audience led to a deal with Netflix. During daily-changing Covid parameters, this virtual production included designing, writing, producing, negotiating; Directing talent, story packages, interviews, virtual and on-location tech teams along with marketing and promotional elements.

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GSK | ViiV Healthcare:  UK-US Hybrid Convention

A dual-country conference wrapped in a television talk show creative format, co-producing/creative directing five layers of show in one. Duplicate stages and television crews for a UK and US on-site theatrical audience, duplicate audio, video, motion graphics, displays, duel multi-camera directing for the opposite studio and interaction, and an online program for a virtual audience.

Holocaust Museum Livestream Special

All holocaust museums are having a serious issue of audience fatigue. This program needed to be rethought to engage previous patronage as well as new audiences by asking questions that had never been asked before, combined with global talent participation. The result was the farthest-reaching demographic & geographic viewership and the largest fundraising tally in its history.  

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Reality Dating Show

The network chose a comedian as a host who would kill it in the clubs but was not dynamic on camera. I found they were over-scripting her which was locking her up as a performer. I secretly set up the kinds of bullet point questions or interactions that I knew would ignite her humor, in addition to coaching her before walking into a scene. It gave the network tons of hilarious footage for post-production and she was kept on.

Oaktree Financial Global Conference

In the first days of covid, their global conference turned into one of the first live stream productions. This 24-hour transformation needed to take very dry material and speakers, turning it into a layered, engaging, cohesive program. Media coaching the leaders of industry to become engaging personalities, re-training stage techs as studio techs all within a high-quality and well-paced program.

Live Events, Environment Experiences, Theatrical

I began creating/directing the Las Vegas-style concerts and stage spectaculars, now live events for Forbes, The Oscars, Thermo Fisher Scientific and interactive environments.

Project Example: To achieve budget and programming goals, pioneered the two-show, one-cast concept for resort casino properties. 7pm – Family Production Show, 9pm – Celebrity Headliner, 11pm – Adult Production Show.

Golden Globes – Crisis Management

Past director/writer and consulted in the initial changes to the Hollywood Foreign Press content, under the new leadership.