film

Joyride Teenage Latina sisters are enlisted by their larger-than-life grandmother to break her out of her senior living facility for a joyride to the Grand Canyon. On the journey, she reveals the painful family history that will change their lives forever.

Drama

Castillos Invisibles (Invisible Castles) follows the Sandinista Revolution through the eyes of an eight-year-old Nicaraguan deaf boy from a remote jungle village. He spends his days on the roof where he delves into his dreams and imagination, until one day a wounded Sandinista emerges from the jungle and changes everything.

Period | Drama

Winking Buddhas: A Story of Fortune Through Great Misfortune is a coming of age story that follows a young Thai girl that loses both her parents during the 2005 Christmas Tsunami in Phuket. She is saved by an elephant that runs to higher ground with her, she starts a new life in Los Angeles. She spends a great deal of time wanting to go ‘home’ only to realize it doesn’t exist the way she remembers. Home is where she has been planted.

 
 

television

Best By Date When a Queer novelist in the throws of his sex addiction takes a job as a ghostwriter for a relationship coach for women over 40, an unapproved tweet he posts goes viral, forcing this odd couple to reimagine how to help their followers navigate the dumpster fire that is modern love.

1 hour | Dramedy

Frenemigas follows a quirky group of friends, as they navigate the slings and arrows of dating, production life & living in Los Angeles. Their quarter-life crises blow in as unexpectedly as the Santa Ana winds.

30-minute | Comedy

 
 

theatre

Flower of Anger in the Winter of 1999 at a flower shop in Los Angeles, a spirit visits thirteen years after dying. He bears witness to a mother revealing to her son how his father died, while her son harbors a secret of his own.

Characters

Ariana, Latina mother in her mid 30s

Beto, Queer Latino son in his early 20s

The Spirit/Ignacio, Spirit of a Latino man in his early 20s 

Productions

January 2020 • Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA)

March 2019 • LA Fest • ESTLA - Eastside Queer Stories

Magnolias When a 12-year-old girl is pushed by her estranged motorcycle gang father to ride her bike without training wheels, she realizes her wounds run deeper than simple scrapes.

Characters

Octavio, a handsome Latinx man in his late 30s, shaggy hair, scruffy, Veteran, still curses like the sailor he was.

Olivia, 12-year-old Afro-Latine girl, nerdy as fuck, puffy Princess Leia buns.


 
Previous
Previous

directing