I didn’t start out as a writer. I started as an actor, and for a while that was enough. But at some point I realized that the only way I was going to get to act in the kinds of stories I wanted to be in was to write them myself.

I write across genres — psychological thrillers, grounded drama, dark comedy, even a superhero series. The format changes but the through line doesn’t. Every project I write keeps coming back to people carrying something they can’t put down, and what happens when someone else walks into the room and makes them deal with it.

Everything I write, I write to act in. I build these characters from the inside. I know what they sound like because I’ve already lived in their heads. That’s the whole point — the writing exists so I can perform the roles I’m not finding anywhere else. Some of these projects, like Legacy, I’m also directing. Others, I’m focused on the performance and letting someone else take the chair.

If you look across all the projects below, you’ll notice they keep coming back to the same things — people who’ve done something they can’t undo, people carrying secrets that are about to come out, and what happens when there’s nowhere left to hide. That’s the space I’m drawn to. I think that’s where the most honest storytelling lives.

Feature

THE SESSION Psychological Thriller — Feature Screenplay

When a volatile young man books an appointment with a celebrated psychiatrist, what begins as a routine intake session slowly reveals itself to be something else entirely. He knows more than a new patient should — about the doctor, about the office, about the family waiting on the other side of the wall. As the session unfolds, the power dynamic shifts repeatedly, each revelation reframing who is in control and who is being played. A story about institutional trust, the weight of a clinical label, and what happens when two people sit across from each other in a locked room and only one of them is telling the truth — until both of them are.

Role: Dr. Elias Chen (written to star) Status: In development. Script competition submissions in progress. Attached producer. Planning a micro-budget production.

Limited Series

WRAITH Grounded Superhero Drama — 8 Episodes

Six years after the city’s most powerful hero was killed during a heist gone wrong, the man left behind — Damon Cole, the tactical partner who couldn’t save him — patrols alone, running down leads on the crew responsible. When he finds a powered stranger living on the street, he sees a potential ally. He doesn’t know the stranger is Jason Lee — Shift — the leader of the crew that killed his partner. Jason knows exactly who Damon is. He gives a false name and enters a partnership built on a lie that, over eight episodes, becomes the most important relationship either man has ever had.

WRAITH asks a single question: What does a man owe the person he destroyed?

Status: Series bible, pitch deck, and pilot treatment complete. In literary management outreach.

Short Films

LEGACY Drama — Short Film

A young father living out of his car takes a job from an aging handyman renovating an empty house, and finds a mentor whose own family is falling apart over what the house is worth.

Role: Henry (actor and producer) Status: In post-production. Written and directed by John Valley; produced by me and David Axe. Shot over three days in Columbia, South Carolina, 30 August to 1 September 2026, fully funded through Fractured Atlas fiscal sponsorship. Post-production due to complete by the end of 2026.

BENCHMARK Dark Comedy / Drama — Short Film

A man sits across from a perfect version of himself — same face, same voice, but the version that made every right decision. The replica isn’t cruel. He’s polite, encouraging even. He just wants to help you understand where you diverged.

Role: Ethan (written to star)