FILM
Deep Fat (2022)
Director, production designer.
My Body is a Paradise (2022)
Director, producer, cinematographer, editor.
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Production designer.
UNDECLARED (2022) (Showrunner: Timmy Thompson)
"Knife Out" inner story vignette (2021).
Co - director, production designer, editor, actor (“Knife”).
Co - director, cinematographer, editor.
Hollow (2021)
Production designer.
Only Have Eyes for You (Dir. Sevon Askew, 2021)
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley.
Doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor ('24).
B.A.s - Film, Television, and Media (FTVM) and English.
WORK & VOLUNTEER
The Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Arts Review (TaGAR) zine
Editor-in-chief (2021-2023).
Student Engagement Council Member (2020-2021).
University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).
Sweetland Center for Writing, University of Michigan.
Peer Writing Consultant in Training (2020-2021).
Forever Waking (2019)
Co - director, writer, actor ("Maybelline Onnaise")
Content contributor (2020).
Gargoyle Humor Mag.
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature Honors Thesis, "On Advocating Cannibalism and Eating Shit: Queer Monstrosity in the John Waters Canon".
April 2023, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Arts Review (TaGAR), "laramidia" & "mama drives me home".
December 2021, online zine publication.
Michigan University-wide Sustainability & Environment
(MUSE) Conference, "“The Web of Causality for the US-Mexico Avocado Trade.”
February 2021, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
HOME-OFFICE Collective, "PALM-HOUSE".
November 2020, Citygroup Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
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Patricia Kennedy Award (2023).
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Hopwood Award for Undergraduate Fiction Finalist (2023).
University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. Awarded for "On Advocating Cannibalism and Eating Shit: Queer Monstrosity in the John Waters Canon".
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Wagner Academic Excellence Prize (2023).
University of Michigan School of Literature, Science, and the Arts Honors Program. Awarded for "On Advocating Cannibalism and Eating Shit: Queer Monstrosity in the John Waters Canon".
University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. Awarded for "With Love, the Conclusion of Your Efforts" and "boyface".
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LSA Honors Grant (2023).
The Abrahamic Sensorium, "Sacred Scents", "Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck", and "Abrahamic Culinary Worlds".
December 2021, University of Michigan Department of Anthropology. Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
University of Michigan School of LSA Honors Program.
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Best Comedy (2022).
University of Michigan School of LSA Honors Program.
James B. Angell Scholar (2022).
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LEAD Scholarship (2019).
Lightworks Student Film Festival, University of Michigan. Awarded on Night Two for "Deep Fat".
University of Michigan Alumni Association.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship (2019).
University of Michigan.
Evy Eugene Mavrellis Scholarship (2019).
Ann Arbor Public Schools.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Award for Social Justice (2019).
Ann Arbor Pioneer High School.
Runner-up, Best Satire (2019).
Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Literary Arts Awards. Awarded for "Forever Waking".