Big week for me. HUGE!

  1. I enrolled in a 6-week Sundance Co//ab TV Writing course this fall and it came to an end this week. I’m sad to see it go but i’m even more excited for the project I started developing in it.

  2. The FINAL Astronaut Training show of 2019 is tomorrow 12/7 at Caveat. The show has evolved so much in the last year and I’m so so so proud of it.

  3. I’m a semi-finalist in the 2019 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch TV Script Contest with my script The New Apollo.

  4. And finally, a tweet of mine is #9 on @buzzfeed's best of the DECADE list!! LINK HERE

Congrats to The New Apollo for being more popular than me (and congrats to me for being okay with it!)

Popping in to update my avid readers (my mom) that my script The New Apollo, about the astronaut who wants to be the first woman on the moon, is not only a “Second Rounder” at the Austin Film Festival but is also a Quarterfinalist in Final Draft’s Big Break contest and in the Top 100 scripts in Launch Pad ‘s Pilot Competition.

I’m really proud!

I was also accepted into Sundance Co//ab’s Episodic TV Writing course which begins this week. I’m excited! October really is the best month!

Please enjoy this picture of my baby nephew next to my mother’s creepy ghost decoration.

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Happy Halloween!

Strega Nona is the only witch that matters.

Goodbye, Summer!

To my dear fans,

I’m so sorry I haven’t posted sooner. 2019 has been a real wild ride, but here are some highlights:

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  • I made these incredible postcards for Astronaut Training! I think I’ll start handing them out in Times Square. That’s how postcards are supposed to be distributed, right?

  • In other Astronaut Training news: we’ve had so so so many awesome shows in 2019 and September’s show sold over one hundred tickets!

  • In writing related news: my latest pilot script, The New Apollo, about the selfish but ambitious astronaut who is desperate to be the first woman on the moon, advanced in the Austin Film Festival as an official “Second Rounder”

  • I also started work on a new feature script that really makes me laugh. More on that to come!

  • And in personal news: my twin brother and his wife gave birth to an incredibly cute baby who — and correct me if I’m wrong — I am ALSO the father of? Because that’s how twin DNA works? When your twin has a baby that baby is also your baby? Yeah I’m pretty sure I heard that on a podcast…

A Few Fun Updates!

It’s been quite an exciting 2019 so far. In addition to already completing my New Year’s Resolution (“become the perfect person”) I have a few exciting announcements:

  • I’m a Second Round Qualifier in Screencraft’s 2018 Fall Film Fund! I submitted my short film, "Good Game!, in the hopes that we can produce it this spring when the weather warms up! Good Game! is a comedic short film about a recreational softball team’s first ever win. Hell yeah!

  • I’m also incredibly excited to share that I’m a panelist at the 2019 Montclair Literary Festival in March. I’ll be sharing more info about where and when to see me, but for now I’ll tell you that I’ll be discussing comedy and publishing and my dear child, How To Success!

  • Astronaut Training is now happening on the first Saturday of every month! January’s show was a huge success! We had a packed house and so much fun! I’ll be sending the winners, Will Martinez and Sara Camnasio, to Mars later this month if funding comes through ;) If you’re available, our February show is Saturday, February 2nd at 6:30pm. Tickets are available here.

  • I’m currently writing a one-act play for Hot Metal Arts Co., a theater company that hosts a night of one-acts called, Blackbox Playlist. Blackbox Playlist is, in short, an anonymous theater project where 8 different playwrights will write 8 different short scripts based on a song selected from a playlist curated by the host of the evening. The actors who will be performing my play won’t know who their scene partner is until that night (that’s when I find out who they are too!) The song I was assigned is also a SECRET, but I’ll tell you that the playlist is a bunch of one-hit wonders. This show is Friday, February 1st at 7:30 at the PIT.

Well, that’s it for now. Hopefully I’ll update this more now that I’m perfect.

Come see my monthly show, Astronaut Training!

            There was a time when space travel united the world.

Let’s bring that back...

in the form of a highly-competitive and divisive game show!

Poster designed by the talented Kevin Bauer!

Poster designed by the talented Kevin Bauer!

This summer I started hosting an incredibly fun show called Astronaut Training! It’s a 90’s Nickelodeon style game show where I put REAL scientists and REAL comedians through the rigorous tests of Astronaut Training (read: incredibly silly games that no one can really win).

Astronaut Training is part-Netflix’s Nailed It,

part-VERY-small-scale American Ninja Warrior.

I play a parody of Elon Musk and I’m joined by my cohost and scientific advisor Loren Grush (science reporter at The Verge).

Our next show is Tuesday, October 16th at 9pm at Caveat. You can buy tickets for the October show here. Beginning in 2019 we will on the first Saturday of every month at 7pm!

Only one flight crew can emerge.

Come witness who will become the next great American heroes!

I'm a finalist in NYTVF and truTV's Comedy Breakout Initiative!

I’m catching up on posting about the last few months now, so before you read this post please pretend it’s June 2018. School’s out and summer is just beginning — life is good!

I’m so excited to announce that my project How to Success! was a finalist in this year’s Comedy Breakout Initiative from the New York Television Festival and truTV!

For the second year, truTV partnered with the NYTVF to find the next generation of distinct comedic voices to create unscripted comedy-based formats.

You might be thinking, isn’t How to Success your book? And to that I’d think back, yes, it is! Wouldn’t you want to see H2S! as a TV show? I’m not 100% sure what that show would actually be yet, but now I’m gonna figure it out.

You can watch the trailers I submitted below!

How to Success! is available now!

I am so excited to announce that my first book, How to Success! A Writer's Guide to Fame and Fortune, is available now!!

I can't legally promise this, but I believe this book is the only thing standing between you and fame.

I can't legally promise this, but I believe this book is the only thing standing between you and fame.

Here's how you can get a copy:

Besides the Chronicle Books page, or your local bookstore, you have a few options:

But no matter where you order from, be sure to leave a review online!

Still not convinced? Give my book trailers a watch!

These three videos were directed by Paul Penczner (who directed Life, After!) with help from Erica Tachoir and the same post-production team that helped make our web series great!

Life, After is alive!

After so many months of hard work from our incredible team, Life, After is ready to be seen! The first episode is embedded below, and you can watch all 8 episodes right here.

Corinne and Erica meet their untimely doom, but they also learn how to fly. Maybe it's not all bad?

Life, After Table Read

This week Erica and I had a table reading for our online series, Life, After!

We were able to assemble a real dream team, and the reading went better than either of us imagined. It was a really great night.

I think my heart swelled three sizes.

Now for the revisions and the fundrasing... 

Let's do this!

 

DIY Friends Launches!

My writing partner, Erica Tachoir, and I have been collaborating on a few projects I'm really excited about and today, one of them launched!

InternetActionForce, a brand new comedy video website from the New York Post, commissioned Erica and I for this fun, DIY centric webseries.

(We also shot episodes 3 and 4 today. What a day!!)

Episode 1

Episode 2