Summary

I love to make people laugh or get chills while watching things I've made, even if I have to stay way past midnight, eat fast food standing in front of a monitor, or work New Year's Eve. Lucky and happy to be doing what I do; telling stories and connecting with an audience.

Credits

3/21 – 3/22

Creative Director

Staff Position — Shareability Details
3/21 – 3/22

Oversaw ideation, development and production/post-production of social media content, including drumbeat content, long form content, influencer plays, and activations. Wrote ad scripts for clients, including WWE, Dove Chocolate, Adobe, and Blockchain Labs. Ideated, developed and executed a holiday social media campaign for a major telecom across 31 countries. Developed social to linear content strategy for several brands, from concept to strategy: Fox Broadcasting, Intuit TurboTax.

4/19 – 12/19

Consulting Producer Encore! (Season 1)

Disney+ — TV — Big TV Inc. Details
4/19 – 12/19

Oversaw story and post production for episodes of theatrical musical reunion series. Cleared photos, created paper cuts, produced stringouts, and oversaw edits through online.

6/18 – 1/19

Co-Executive Producer (CoEP) Dating Around (Season 1)

Netflix — TV — Eureka! Details
6/18 – 1/19

Oversaw post production, story editors, post delivery, online and mixing, as well as music clearance.

5/17 – 11/17

Co-Executive Producer (CoEP) SciJinks (Season 1)

Discovery — TV — A. Smith & Co. Productions Details
5/17 – 11/17

Oversaw all creative, deep science research, wrote and produced segments, and on-set directing of a hidden camera show based on scientific principles.

3/16 – 3/17

Director of Development

Staff Position — Emergent Order Details
3/16 – 3/17

Director of development for documentary, film and branded content production company. Oversaw creation of pitch decks, treatments, sizzle reels as well over working closely with writers and producers on pilots and series. Focused creative and production energies on branded content (Chick-Fil-A, Evite, Whole Foods), VR (Whole Foods), feature documentaries ("Abundance" in post-production, "Madigan:Power. Privilege. Politics") as well as scripted narrative ("One Second After", in development, NY Times bestselling book). Projects include: * At The Fork -- feature documentary distributed by Samuel Goldwyn * One Second After -- in development * Madigan: Power. Privilege. Politics -- distributed by xfinity films

6/15 – 12/15

Consultant (Shoot Day) Prettybird

Smartwater — Advertising — PRETTYBIRD Details
6/15 – 12/15

Wrote and collaborated with creative director and director to create 'choose your own adventure' interactive commercial starring Jennifer Aniston. Reference: https://halkirkland.squarespace.com/smartwater/

2/15 – 5/15

Consulting Producer (Adventureman) Wieden + Kennedy

Old Spice — Advertising — PRETTYBIRD Details
2/15 – 5/15

Oversaw creative of three day live interactive event streamed on Twitch.

1/15 – 4/15

Writer The Inspectors (Season 1)

CBS — TV — Litton Entertainment Details
1/15 – 4/15

Broke story and wrote drafts of produced episode of CBS procedural drama "The Inspectors". Series nominated for 6 Daytime Emmys, including "Best Writing".

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Education

Class of '98

Boston University

Film and Television