Vertical series · 61 episodes
Lenox & Fifth
A struggling barber discovers he’s the secret son of America’s most powerful family, and his half-brother, weeks from the presidency, will do anything to erase him.
ProducedNow Showing
Podcast Bros
“For the modern man with nothing to say.” An award-winning comedy short from Iron Gates Media. I co-wrote and directed it, and played Wellington Scott.
Podcast Bros · Festival honors
- WinnerBest Sketch Comedy NYC Short Comedy Film Festival2023
- WinnerBest Actor, Sketch Comedy NYC Short Comedy Film Festival2023
- WinnerBest Ensemble Cast Georgia Comedy Film FestivalFall 2023
Today We Almost Died
When a global pandemic shuts the world down, four Brooklyn roommates are left with the one thing they’ve spent years avoiding: each other.
The pilot premiered June 26, 2025, with the full first season written. The show is fiscally sponsored by AIR Media.
- Featured among Million Podcasts’ Best 100 Comedy Fiction Podcasts in the US and Feedspot’s Best Comedy Drama Podcasts
Today We Almost Died · Festival honors
- WinnerBest Comedy Screenplay Sofia Art Film Awards2022
- WinnerBest Comedy Screenplay Prague International Film Awards2022
- WinnerBest Feature Script London Movie Awards
- FinalistBest Feature Screenplay Rome Prisma Film Awards
- Award Finalist Austin Short Film FestivalWinter 2024
- Honorable Mention Future of Film Awards2022
- Special Mention 1st Monthly Film Festival2025
- Official Selection HALO International Film Festival2024
- Official Selection Austin Micro Film FestivalFall 2024
- Official Selection RED Movie Awards, Reims2022
- Official Selection Emerald Peacock2022
- Official Selection Chicago Script Awards2022
- Official Selection Košice International Film Festival2021
- Official Selection New York Script Awards
- Official Selection Best Script Award
Original ScriptsSeeking Partners
Short film · Drama
I Need a Light
A small-market reporter chasing a police killing wants justice, but he wants the spotlight more.
- Best Short Screenplay, Golden Lion International Film Festival
- Best Short Screenplay, Madrid Shorts Film Festival
- Best Short Screenplay, Rome Prisma Film Award
- Finalist, Golden Short Film Festival
Short film · Drama-comedy
Influenced
Six influencers locked in a week-long livestream have a million views to win, a body to hide, and an audience that never stops watching.
Short film · Thriller
Stratum
Sixty floors up, everyone in the room needs the money. Only one of them knows what it costs.
- Finalist, East Village New York Film Festival
Half-hour pilot · Dark comedy
The Family Jones
When their ailing father disappears, a Nobel laureate, an attorney general, and an art entrepreneur, all of whom moonlight as assassins, fight over who inherits the family business.
- Best TV Pilot Script, 1st Monthly Film Festival
- Best TV Pilot Script, Monthly Future of Film Awards
Also producedBack Catalog
- 2020White Face App · Stage sketch comedy · Writer, Producer, Actor · Official Selection, NYC Short Comedy Film Festival
- 2020Samuel L. Jackson’s Master Class · Stage sketch comedy · Writer, Producer, Actor
- 2018Too Much · Web series · Co-Writer, Assistant Director, Producer, Actor
- 2025Randy Holloway Entertainment · Associate Producer / Script Supervisor
- 2019–20America First? Sketch Show · Staff Writer / Performer
AboutThe Byline
I’m a journalist with 15+ years in news, from NPR and local broadcast to Axios Live. I’m also a storyteller, audio producer, director, screenwriter and the occasional actor. I trained in sketch at UCB, and in 2020, as stages shut down, I founded Iron Gates Media to tell stories about people like me, the ones still missing from today’s media.
Now I’m building a slate of short films and a micro drama, and I’m looking for collaborators who want to make work that’s sharp and means something.
- TrainingM.S. Journalism, Columbia
B.A. Journalism, University of South Carolina
Sketch Comedy Diploma, UCB - HonorsThe Podcast Academy Fellow (2026)
AIR New Voices Fellow (2024)
Black Boy Writes Semi-Finalist (2025)
UCB Diversity Scholar (2018, 2019) - JurorNYC Short Comedy Film Festival (2024, 2025, 2026)
- NewsroomsNPR · Axios Live · Courier · The Emancipator · Thrillist
- TeachingCUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Hunter College - CompanyFounder & Creative Director, Iron Gates Media (est. 2020)
The nameWhy Iron Gates
Iron Gates Media means three things. It begins with my name, and I don’t lend it to anything I won’t stand behind. It lives in the gate itself, wrought from iron, built to hold the line and outlast the hands that forged it, because I’m not here for a moment but for something that endures. And it rests on an old proverb, “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another,” a reminder that no blade finds its edge alone in a drawer, only in meeting another. So bring your edge, and let’s sharpen each other into work that lasts.
Let’s make something.
Producers, DPs, editors, actors and fellow creatives: if one of these scripts speaks to you, let’s talk.