TELEVISION
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON
Segment Writer & On-Air Talent, wrote this musical comedy song with the prompt “I Bought an Off-Brand Rapid Test” and performed in front of the live studio audience as a part of the Battle of the Instant Songwriters segment. It was a blast just to participate… but spoiler alert: I won.
SESAME STREET (UNILEVER HBCC)
*Winner of the 2021 Global Good Awards*
Writer, Editor & Writing Coordinator for comprehensive short form content series
Headed format development, writing and editing for “Raya’s Treasure Hunt” animated series
SESAME STREET (AHLAN SIMSIM)
*Nominee of the 2021 International Emmy Awards*
Writer, Editor & Writing Coordinator for Sesame Workshop’s $100m+ show for refugee people, broadcast across the Middle East and North Africa
Develop and edit all content for the show. It’s not subtitled, but check out the YouTube channel here
THE QUARTER UPDATE
*Winner of the 2019 College Emmys (Variety)*
Creator, Showrunner & Writer of Northwestern's "Weekend Update"-style show
*Watch this clip from the College Television Awards to see our team announced as the 2019 winners of the Variety category!*
After my tenure as host of The Blackout (below) was over, I still wanted to be able to help the organization and create with some of my favorite collaborators. So, I created "The Quarter Update," which is modeled after SNL's Weekend Update and applied to the Northwestern campus, with one show each quarter. This quickly became a great way to make use of the crew, which after my year of hosting grew to 150+ people.
The first show we released was immediately well-received on Facebook, gaining the most traction of any of our web releases to that point. We knew we’d made something special.
AMERICAN EXPRESS (DIGITAS)
Writer of Amex spot featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, supervised edit
Watch the spot here
NEWSY
Writer & Producer for Culture Desk
Watch the stories by clicking the thumbnails below
Major League Baseball's MVP Race This Year Is Of Epic Proportions
How 'Japan's Babe Ruth' May Revolutionize American Baseball
THe Blackout
Director, Writer & Host of Northwestern's Late Night Talk Show
"The Blackout" is Northwestern's popular late night talk / variety show. When I was selected to host, I was humbled and honored. For a year, I directed, wrote, starred in and generally created three shows worth of content, with a particular focus on optimizing everything for social media and digital channels, specifically within our Northwestern audience. What came out of it is definitely some of the work I'm most proud of — running the writers' room, we had an opportunity to bring disparate corners of our college community together, as well as make commentary on the school that we all attend. It was an incredible product of passion and solidarity, and I had a blast serving as host.
SKETCHES / PROMOS
UNSCRIPTED SEGMENTS
LIVE SHOW MONOLOGUES
LIVE SHOW SEGMENTS (SCRIPTED & UNSCRIPTED)
COMEDY
STORY PIRATES
Director & Actor for popular kids’ sketch comedy group
ObsessED… (WITH US)
Co-Creator, Actor & Producer of improv comedy show
Obsessed with Us is an improv comedy show I co-created. We have a monthly sold-out show at Brooklyn Comedy Collective.
Prior to our Brooklyn slot, we had a sold out run at the People’s Improv Theater in Manhattan.
FULLY IN THE NEWS
Creator, Writer & Host of podcast with Bleav Network
Fully improvised radio plays based on New York City headlines
Listen to the podcast here
NORTHWESTERN SKETCH TELEVISION
Taped sketch comedy network; Actor
Northwestern Sketch Television (NSTV) is a huge operation, with an awesome budget and massive crew. However, the actual core of the creative team is small and mighty. I was thrilled to be cast as an actor in the NSTV cast my sophomore year, and have participated every year since.
(*Note: all videos were posted on Facebook initially, where they have substantially higher view counts. NSTV's YouTube account acts more as an archive, and also provides much better external links than the Facebook account does.)
MUSIC
THUNK A CAPPELLA
Northwestern's oldest a cappella group
I had the pleasure of performing with THUNK all four years of college, from venues on campus to those in Cape Town, South Africa. My solos and arrangements were featured in national publications like "Live for Live Music" (here) and "College A Cappella" (here).
"MY DEAR LAURENS"
Original song
I'm not a big "Hamilton" buff, but I took a class on the musical in the context of its actual history at Northwestern and one of the final assignments was a creative one, to write the musical's missing track. Most students wrote poems or raps, but I decided to really run with it. When I posted it to YouTube to share with the class, it took off, and has since collected nearly 100,000 views. It’s even got its own Genius lyrics page and it’s been translated into multiple languages.