ABOUT ME

I live in LA where I write, produce, teach, and mother two young kids. I am the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, LIGHT YEARS which I adapted for television with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment.

Currently, I’m writing LAST DANCE, a feature for Fifth Season based on my New Yorker essay “The Last Dance With My Dad” with Rachel Zegler set to star, and original TV series EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD for Fat City.

My essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the LA Times, the Yale Review, Self, Culture Trip, Rookie, Refinery29, and elsewhere.

Formerly, I co-founded Cooper’s Town Productions with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, a company I ran for ten years. There, I developed and produced numerous projects, including CAPOTE and Hoffman’s directorial debut, JACK GOES BOATING.

I guest lecture frequently, and am the co-founder of the Industry Professional Mentorship Program at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills.

I have run three marathons, slowly, and hold a degree from Brown University in art-semiotics, the study of how images make meaning.