Work With Me

I’ve edited 30+ scripted movies for Fox, Hulu, Netflix, and Lifetime. The edit is the final rewrite, and for fourteen years I’ve been the one doing it. I’ve watched exactly where scripts break: after the money is spent, when the fix costs ten times what it would have cost on the page.

Now I do that work where the fix is still cheap: a structural read, on the page, before you shoot.

The Structural Read

Send me a pitch, outline, or draft. You get back a written structural breakdown: where the story holds, where it gives, and why. Written in language your team can act on, not notes-on-instinct.

The read locates the contradiction inside the protagonist, checks whether the world around them actually pressurizes that contradiction or just decorates it, and tests whether the ending is inevitable or merely convenient.

Delivered within five business days.

The Room Session

A working session with your development team. We put the vocabulary on the table: a full method to surface any structural issues. Then we run it against your active projects. Your room leaves with a shared language.

Ongoing Story Consulting

A story that isn’t working and won’t say why. The method tends to surface what other frameworks miss. Scope and cadence to fit the project.

How do you know the read is real?

You don’t have to take a course or trust a testimonial. Read one essay.

Each pairing takes two films that share nothing on the surface and shows they’re the same story underneath: same protagonist, same false victory, same earned ending. Ratatouille / In Bruges is live now; three more are coming, one per story type.

If the breakdown shows you something new about two films you already know, imagine what it surfaces in a draft that isn’t working yet.

Get in touch

Email me directly at [email protected] with what you’re working on. Two sentences is plenty. I’ll tell you within a day whether my read will help.