sound designer / filmmaker / composer / producer

Below is some of my work. I’ve broken it down into my three specialties: story, sound, and music. It’s not a perfect organizational scheme, as these often overlap on any given project, but it’ll do the trick.

Story

  • In which a sibling faces unfair accusations of teen pop vandalism.

    Listen on BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts

    Reporting, Production, Original Score

  • Documentary film exploring paruresis (also known as shy bladder syndrome). Equal parts science journalism, personal narrative, and anthropological jaunt. Plenty of bathroom humor.

    In Production — peeshyfilm.com

  • Frank is an advocate for perhaps the most universally despised group in America: sex offenders

    Love and Radio

    Reporting, Production

  • A handful of young Brits are whisked away with promises of an otherworldly adventure

    From Vespucci Group (in production)

    Reporting, Production, Sound Design

  • An immersive record of the protest and unrest following the murder of George Floyd, through the eyes of four veteran reporters

    WBEZ

    Reporting, Production, Host

  • America’s lost history of eugenics through the eyes of its last remaining survivors

    Listen on BBC’s The Documentary

    Reporting, Production, Sound Design

  • Doug Williams has been waging a one man war for decades against the polygraph machine

    Featured on This American Life

    Reporting, Production, Editing, Sound Design

  • When a neighbor wanted to build a concrete plant next to Marvin’s property, he fought back

    Love and Radio

    Reporting, Production, Sound Design

SOund

  • An unlikely duo chases down the origins of a mysterious letter that caused a national scandal

    Serial Productions / New York Times

    Sound Design, Scoring, Music Supervision, Mixing/Mastering

  • From a founding host of Reply-All, a limited series exploring the frontiers of a strange new world

    Episodes and more

    Sound Design, Scoring, Mixing/Mastering

  • Part memoir and part investigation, this seven-part series follows host Yohance Lacour as he revisits a 1997 hate crime on the South Side of Chicago, examining its ripple effects and correcting the historical record nearly 25 years later.

    Invisible Institute / USG Audio

    Sound Design, Scoring, Music Supervision, Mixing/Mastering

  • In a weekly nonpartisan news podcast, longtime national security journalist and bestselling author Peter Bergen goes beyond the headlines to explore the world’s most important and captivating stories.

    Audible / Fresh Produce Media

    Sound Design, Scoring, Mixing

MUSIC

  • Original Soundtrack

    Roscoe, a janitor for a scuzzy love motel, drifts through life until he finds a stash of powerful hallucinogenic worms.

    Film

    Full Soundtrack

  • Podcast Score

    Small towns. Big walls. A good place to hide things. Stories and scandals from prisons in rural America.

    WBEZ

  • Cue Shop is a music library and scoring co-op creating provocative instrumental music for stories. Our cues can be heard on WBEZ, Audible, Maine Public, The Secrets Hotline, Art Institute of Chicago, and elsewhere.

    Website

    Bandcamp

Awards & Recognitions

Vulture’s Best Podcasts (Cryptoland)

2022


Third Coast Award: Best Serialized Story (You Didn’t See Nothin’)

2023


Variety’s Best New Podcasts (The Trojan Horse Affair)

2022


Third Coast Award: Best Documentary - Bronze (Blink Once For Yes)

2017


Atlantic’s 50 Best Podcast Episodes (A Red Dot)

2015