MY EXPERIENCE / STORY & DEVELOPMENT
In 2023, I was brought on as a Co-Producer to help develop The Pendragon Cycle, a large-scale streaming series filmed across Budapest and Italy. My role centered on narrative alignment—working closely with the showrunner, writers, and department heads to ensure creative consistency across scripts, visual departments, and source material. As the internal steward of the story, I helped shape outlines, track canon, and manage the writers' room through early phases of development.
In 2025, I decided to put myself out there and begin developing stories of my own—stories that seek to answer the big questions. Not just faith content, but work shaped by transcendental values: faith, hope, and love. In a world flooded with darkness, I wanted to offer a quiet, stubborn alternative—one rooted in light.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Queen of Persia (working title, 2025 – Present)
Currently in development under Seven Palms Films, Queen of Persia is a historical drama inspired by the biblical story of Esther. Set in 5th century BCE Persia, the series follows a young woman caught between personal loss and rising political unrest as she’s drawn into a spiritual and geopolitical crisis that could reshape an empire.
Aimed at a broad, secular audience, the series explores identity, inheritance, and the quiet cost of courage. With a target rating of TV-16 for wartime violence and mature themes, Queen of Persia blends palace intrigue and historical depth with grounded, character-driven storytelling.
Moonflower (working title, 2026 – Present)
Currently in development under Seven Palms Films, Moonflower is a historical Western drama set in 1880s New Mexico, where a woman with a buried past reappears in the last place she should ever return.
At once intimate and mythic, Moonflower explores love, identity, grief, and the brutal tension between reinvention and reckoning. Rooted in grounded characters, the film blends emotional depth, outlaw suspense, and regional political pressure into a mature Western aimed at audiences who respond to morally complex storytelling, historical texture, and restrained but resonant drama.
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