About me….
I am a media composer based in New York, originally from Cincinnati, OH with a background in film and theatre. I recently completed my MFA in Media Scoring at Feirstein Graduate School.
My tv/film work (Dexter: Resurrection, Dexter: Original Sin, Life & Beth) is streaming on Paramount+, Hulu, and Prime Video. My theatre work has appeared at Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, and Signature Theatre, and has been published by Music Theatre International.
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I attended the Webster Conservatory for Theatre Arts in St. Louis, where I studied acting and music. I interned with the San Francisco Mime Troupe to bring free musical theatre to public parks in the Bay Area and trained with legendary Polish actress Rena Mirecka at Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts.
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In Portland, Oregon, I created The Waterman, an original musical with actor-musician Sam De Roest, in addition to scoring Shakespeare adaptations (Henry V, Cymbeline) and other live shows. One notable performance took place in several city parks with the audience riding to each location on bicycles (Bike Play). With recording engineer and bassist Nick Erickson, I recorded my first album, Sun River. The Pacific Northwest continues to be a source of inspiration for me.
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In 2014, I moved to New York and co-founded the theatre company Thicket & Thistle. I scored, music-directed and arranged more than a dozen live shows, which you can read more about on my Work page. I began to transition into film and visual media starting in 2016 with Coattails & Paradise, a stop-motion animated musical by Knhik Haefner. Following that, I wrote music for commercials and podcasts, including a jingle for Keeps Hair Care and the theme for popular board game show “Woodland War Machine” with over 400k downloads. I deepened my engagement with visual media by completing a master’s degree in Media Scoring at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in Brooklyn.
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In 2023, I worked on my first television series for Hulu, Life & Beth. I assisted composers Timo Elliston and Ray Angry, and worked as an orchestrator alongside JoAnne Harris. I conducted a string quintet for episode 6 of the series, set in a haunted mansion. Spooky!
In 2024, I worked as an assistant composer to Pat Irwin with fellow assistant Sam Bishoff on the most-streamed series in Showtime history, Dexter: Original Sin. In 2025, my team and I followed up with Dexter: Resurrection (which subsequently became the most-streamed series in Showtime’s history). I’m really enjoying the dark, thrilling, and morbidly funny tone of the music for this show, and it’s been a treat to explore the themes and atmospheres of the late, great Daniel Licht on the original Dexter series to get a feel for how this iconic character sounds.
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Coming up in 2026: I’m releasing an ambient album called “Vigil” on Bathysphere Records, focusing on the ethereal sounds of the Terra synth in combination with field recordings and acoustic instruments like clarinet, piano, guitar, cello, flute and violin.
Thicket & Thistle
I am a co-founder and music director of Thicket & Thistle, a theatre company of actor-musicians creating original musicals. With T&T, I composed the musicals What’s Your Wish?, Death Cruise, and Taste of Success, and developed the musical Waterman. It’s a challenge to create stories cooperatively, but it’s worth it to get to work with a talented and innovative ensemble like T&T.
The group’s first musical What’s Your Wish? appeared at the New York Musical Festival in 2018. For my work with this warm, poignant acoustic score, I was nominated for an Award in Outstanding Musical Arrangements and Orchestrations.