Film & Creative Direction

From 2005 through 2024, I built a nearly twenty-year career spanning art direction, documentary and commercial production, and creative leadership, in parallel with my fine-art practice. I returned to full-time studio practice in 2025. Commercial work has sharpened how I direct people and build a scene, and continues to inform my constructed portraits.

In 2011, I co-founded THEY bklyn with Christy Pessagno, serving as Executive Creative Director through 2021. We made documentary films, photography, and branded content for publishers, brands, and cultural institutions, including more than 40 documentary profiles of Vilcek Foundation prize recipients.

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From 2021 to 2024, I established and led the in-house creative department at Teamshares, first as Creative Director and then as VP, Creative Content. Our team worked across film, photography, design, and editorial, making work about employee ownership and the people inside small businesses.

Creative direction, film, and photography →

An artist sketching a character in a sketchbook at a paint-marked worktable — still from a T Brand Studio video, branded content for Calvin Klein.
A waiter in a vest and bow tie seated at Keens Steakhouse beneath its framed tiger painting — THEY documentary work.
A waiter in a vest and bow tie seated at Keens Steakhouse beneath its framed tiger painting — THEY documentary work.

Selected stills from documentary work, 2011–2024