EXPERIENCE
Best Case Studios, Remote
Manager of Production & Development, March 2023-March 2024
Best Case Studios is a premium production company with a focus on podcasting. I continued my previous responsibilities and took over the Manager position for our two departments. While in this role, I produced three seasons of Amy Poehler’s parody podcast series Say More with Dr? Sheila and associate produced multiple fiction and non-fiction shows, including Fallen Angels: A Story of California Corruption. I also acted as Script Supervisor on one of our fiction shows when working with Annie Kauffman, though the podcast is not yet released. I managed our social media accounts and created the episode visuals that accompanied our podcast launch of The Whistleblowers when we screened it for our launch party at E Street Cinemas in Washington, D.C.
On the development side, I continue to give creative edits and notes on pitches, scripts, episode cuts, and pitch decks. I directed trailer and pilot narration and workshopped our shows in development.
Associate Producer, Production & Development, July 2022-March 2023
I continue my work coordinating, and have taken on Associate Producing duties. I was the AP on 40+ episodes of MarketWatch’s show Best New Ideas in Money with Stephanie Kelton, where I coordinated the team, interviewed guests, pulled selects, directed narration recordings, and researched and brainstormed new episodes. Here are two episodes I’m particularly proud of, one on students loans and one on Gen Z in the workplace.
In addition, I coordinate freelance staff and talent, which includes legal forms and payment, and maintaining cost reports.
Production & Development Coordinator, January 2022-July 2022
While continuing my work as Production Coordinator, I added on the responsibilities of the Development Coordinator. I reviewed submissions and gave creative feedback, created pitch decks, took pitch meetings from writers, did archival research for our docu-series, and assisted in story structure and ideation.
Production Coordinator, August 2021-December 2022
In this role I coordinated the C13 Features podcast Ghostwriter (starring Kate Mara and Adam Scott) and Treat (starring Kiernan Shipka), both of which went to #1 in Fiction Podcasts. I ran technical supervision over recording sessions, coordinated cast and crew, and organized show materials and processes.
Love In The Time of Climate Change Podcast, Remote
Audio Engineer, October 2020-February 2021
Love in the Time of Climate Change is an award-winning play turned podcast about modern climate change fears and anxieties. As the Audio Engineer, I directed audio recording, including giving session notes and fixing technical issues. Afterwards, I edited podcast episodes, found foley and music, and mixed podcast episodes.
Isotope Films, Remote
Documentary Summer Intern, Summer 2020-Spring 2021
Isotope Films, headed by award-winning producer Chiemi Karasawa, develops true stories into documentaries, narrative films, and more. As a Documentary Intern, I researched archival footage and images for feature documentary films. I also created interview transcripts, archival cue sheets, and graphics cue sheets.
Start A Buzz! Marketing, Remote
Video Production Intern, Summer 2020
Start A Buzz is a full service marketing consulting company offering creative ideas and solutions for small start up companies and not for profits. As the Video Production, Marketing, and Social Media Intern, I produced, animated, and edited videos. I also assisted in website design and social media marketing for the new girls’ empowerment project “This Girl Can!”.
Uncertain Productions, Philadelphia, PA
Founder, Summers 2016-2019
I co-founded a small media production business with a focus on videos and advertisements for local businesses in the greater Philadelphia area. As part of a small team, I executed all aspects of production and developed client needs into creative content. This meant that I communicated one-on-one with clients, storyboarded the videos, directed shoots, and edited these videos into several drafts with my team so that clients could have options to work with.
Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Burbank, CA
Production Intern, Summer 2018
Bang Zoom! Entertainment is an award-winning audio and post production company located in Burbank, California. As Production Intern there for the summer of 2018, I handled a host of responsibilities ranging from managing the phones and preparing for clients, to assisting with media production. For instance, I worked on several projects in which I learned about script conversion, spotting, loop counts, and AsRecs. I got the chance to learn from a number of recording sessions from the script director and technical editor's points of view and even was lucky enough to record audio for Walla and foley sessions.
Planned Parenthood, New York City, NY
Human Resources Intern, Summer 2014
As a summer intern for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America at their headquarters in New York, I offered assistance in the Human Resources department. I digitized and categorized employee information, regulated the job application directory as an online administrator, and I provided customer service.
EDUCATION
Smith College, Northampton MA
B.A. in Film & Media Studies, May 2020
At Smith College, I broadened my scope of interest from video production alone to all sorts of new media- I took classes on drone imagery and designing escape rooms, I hosted a radio show and directed a musical. I threw myself into new projects and forms of storytelling that excited me and embraced a community of other artists and makers like me. I am proud to have left college having been awarded the esteemed Iris Prize for excellence in my projects.
Related Coursework: Advanced Video Production, Film in the Digital Age, Film Theories & Methods, Global Television, Visual Culture and Film, Global Cinema, Aerial Imagery and Cinematography, Media Participation Studies
Clubs & Societies: Smith College Radio (Host/DJ), Student Musical Theater Group (Director/Choreographer/Publicity Rep), Film Production Club, House Council (Senior Rep)
Queen Mary University of London, London, England
Film and Theatre Departments, Semester Abroad, May, 2019
During my Junior year at Smith, I spent my spring semester attending Queen Mary University of London. I worked tirelessly on an experimental archival documentary for a documentary production class, one at the graduate level, focusing on ASMR and intimacy formed online. At the end of the semester, I was accepted as a student attendee and invited to attend the Cannes Film Festival. It was amazing to see these fabulous films and hear the directors and stars talk so passionately about their work. It was a semester of going out of my comfort zone and I am so grateful for all of the opportunities.
Related Coursework: Documentary Production (Graduate Level, Intensive), Making Contemporary Theatre (Intensive)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS
Screening Committee Member for the Boston Film Festival
Graduate of Grassroots Comedy Stand Up Incubator Program 2024
Committee Member of GOLD Comedy’s Digital Comedy Teams 2024
Guest Lecturer on Film Analysis at Randolph Macon College
Assistant Instructor of Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship to NYU Abu Dhabi Students in Entrepreneurship Workshop, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Participant/Filmmaker in Northampton, MA annual “Crowdsourced Cinema”
Member of Reclaim Philadelphia’s “Gender Justice Caucus” and Sunrise Philly’s Video Network
Awards:
2020- Smith College Film & Media Studies Iris Prize for excellence in a major project that is a result of innovative thinking and creativity
2016- WHYY 1st Place for Film Narrative Story, 2nd Place for Judges’ Award and Silver Key Scholastic Art Award for Visual Arts for my short film “The Private Crimes of Casey James”, a mockumentary short film