[Check out the recent profile Zaxcom did of me here. ]
I grew up in a small fishing village in Alaska, and while I developed a comfort with hard work and long hours (as well as a deep admiration for self-employment and the freelance lifestyle), I did not want to kill fish for a living.
Travel is a passion of mine and during college I moved to Ecuador for a year. I am well prepared to move around for work; I have lived in Thailand and Mexico, and have done projects in Korea, Belize, France, and Aruba. I speak Spanish, can get by in French, and can fake my way through Italian.
After film school (and a degree in screenwriting), an opportunity came up to boom my friend’s ultra-low-budget Cabin in the woods horror film outside of Seattle. It was bad, and I will not show it to you, but it was fun enough to make me think I could make this my career; a few projects later I bought some equipment and Hold For Plane Audio was born.
After Seattle I moved to San Francisco and began working on industrial work, commercials, and quite features (including A24’s “The Last Black man in San Francisco” and Sofia Coppola’s “Fairyland” which both premiered at Sundance).
In March 2020, I moved down to LA to pursue more work in narrative. That was not great timing, but it’s finally turning around; I look forward to whatever the future brings.