EDUCATION

2011 – 2014 California Institute of the Arts, Experimental Animation, BFA

WORK-WORK

2021 - present Sr. Puppet Coordinator, LAIKA

2014 - 2021 Social Media & Video Manager, YoungArts

2014 Digital Marketing Intern, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

2012 - 2014 Social Media Producer (Part-Time/Seasonal), YoungArts

OTHER COOL ENDEAVORS

2022, 2025 Screening Panel, Portland Dance Film Fest

2023 Anthropologie x YoungArts Leading With Creativity Award Winner, and apprenticeship with the Anthropologie Art Department

2020 - 2022 Festival Programmer, Miami Film Festival

WRITER, DIRECTOR, ANIMATOR

Solitude, Darkness, Light (2016, 5:00s, digital animation, writing and performance)

Commissioned by YoungArts. A collaboration with co-direction and music by Kayla Briët and co-direction and photography by Thomas Carr. Screenings: NFFTY, Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, YoungArts Outside The Box, The Future of Film is Feminist Festival, Solaris Film Festival, Durango Independent Film Festival, OUTShine Film Festival.

I met a robot at a ballet once. (2014, 2:01s, hand-drawn animation)

Vimeo Staff Pick. Screenings: KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Robot Film Festival, Borscht Film Festival MULTIVERSE, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Tres Court Festival, Fargo Film Festival, CalArts Experimental Animation Showcase, and really big on the side of a building facing Brickell Ave in Miami, FL for a few months (projected by Swire Properties).

i (2012, 3:42s, dance and hand-drawn animation)

With choreography and performance by Yanina Orellana and music by Kate Davis. Short-listed for the Student Academy Awards. Screenings: Anima Mundi, interfilm Berlin, exclusive online premiere by Cartoon Brew.

Being (2010, 2:16s, claymation and hand-drawn animation)

Screenings and exhibitions: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Dance/Draw exhibit), Scholastic Art & Writing Awards year-long exhibition at the U.S. Department of Education, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National YoungArts Week.

Kiss That Grrrl (2010, 3:49s, cut-out animation)

Winner in a Kate Nash YouTube music video contest (the good ol’ days of YouTube). Screenings: National YoungArts Week, 2011 Salute to U.S. Presidential Scholars at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Obsessive Compulsive (2010, 1:43s, stop-motion)

Grand prize winner in the A Town Called Panic stop-motion animation contest, selected by directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar. Featured on the DVD of A Town Called Panic and screened at the International OCD Foundation’s “OCD & Creativity” showcase.

ANIMATION FOR PROJECTION

IN[VISIBILITY] (2018, digital animation)

Animation loops projected behind the stage for choreographer Jay Jackson’s (also known as drag queen Laganja Estranja) immersive dance theater work at YoungArts.

Not So Impossible (2016, hand-drawn animation)

25-minute tap dance production by choreographer Caleb Teicher with 20 minutes of experimental animated projections accompanying ten dancers on stage.

wed (2015, hand-drawn rotoscoping)

Experimental animation as projection with pianist/composer Conrad Tao’s live performances of “wed” (composed by David Lang) and as a music video for the recording off Tao’s second album.

MR. TOL E. RAncE (2013, cut-out and digital animation, multimedia artwork)

Bessie Award-winning production by Camille A. Brown & Dancers presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors, White Bird, and more.

iridescence (2013, acid-on-film and digital animation)

Experimental animation for Conrad Tao’s original composition for iPad and piano, interactive with the synth loops on iPad and the decibel level of the piano. Performed at Conrad’s 3-day UNPLAY Festival in Brooklyn.

Evolution (2011, 5:00s, claymation)

Animated in reverse and created in collaboration with dancer Maxwell Perkins and musician Zachary Ostroff for projection and performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2011 Salute to the U.S. Presidential Scholars.

SCULPTURE + ILLUSTRATION

Holiday mugs exclusively designed for and produced and sold by Anthropologie (2024)

Triangle Bird for Together, a short film (2021, polymer clay)

Commissioned by YoungArts.

See No Evil, Feel No Evil (2018, polymer clay)

A series of 56 hand-sculpted and hand-painted miniature sculptures of naked femmes - of all shapes, colors and body hair practices - in balled up positions with their eyes covered and their hair in buns. Each is no more than 1 inch tall. Featured and sold at Pulse Contemporary Art Fair during Miami Art Week 2018.

Limited Edition Samba Sol Flip Flops (2017, hand-drawn design, printed onto flip flops)

Originally hand-drawn with Sharpie onto blank sandals, then scanned to be printed onto flip flops for sale through Samba Sol. Premiered during Miami Art Week 2017.

WRITING

PicsArt Blog: “Non-Scientific Studies Show: You Should Do More Doodling” (2016)

PicsArt Blog: “A Niche With a Side of Quiche: The Art of Tiny Food” (2016)

“There’s a monster behind the shower curtain.” (2014, “reprint” in 2017)

Tiny, hand-bound existential kid’s book about the monster behind the shower curtain and other things we can’t see.

“Sometime Today, Maybe” (2014)

One-person play about waiting onstage for your future self to appear. Performed in 2014 at the CalArts Digital Arts Expo.

Feature for Imagine Magazine, Johns Hopkins University (2011)

PRESS HIGHLIGHTS

LAIKA employee spotlight (2024), mention in Washington Post for contribution to Together, a short film (2021), See No Evil, Feel No Evil in Ground Up Journal (2019), VoyageMIA interview (2018), Dance Informa review of Camille A. Brown’s Mr. TOL E. RAncE (2014), Cartoon Brew interview (2013), New York Times review of Conrad Tao’s UNPLAY Festival (2013), and if you really want to go back in time, a hopeful SunSentinel article (2011)