In the movie, “Julia”, Lillian Hellman says her friend, “Be bold. Work hard. Take chances.” I was new to Los Angeles when I heard this, and I wrote it on the first thing I could find, an old paper bag. I stuck to my bare living room wall and every time walked out the door it was there, “Be Bold. Work hard. Take chances.”
And so I started my adventures as a Hollywood writer. My success at finding a job was immediate – within a week I was bartending and moving furniture. Finding work as a writer took longer. A spec script that I wrote with a partner reached the right people. It got made (and spec scripts never get made) and my career was launched.
(Here, maybe we have a link to a full listing of shows/projects I’ve worked on)
Outside of work, I’ve spent over twenty years coaching youth sports. Ideas are a lot like kids. There can be a lot of them on the field and they all want to run around. A good coach, like a good content creator, has to be able to corral the herd. He has to know his message, he has to make it understandable, organize it, energize it and execute the game plan.
In comedy, laughter is just acknowledgement. The audience understands, they lean in, they want more. It’s the same in communications -- if your audience isn’t leaning in, doesn’t want more, then your message, your story, is wasted. In my career inside the entertainment industry and outside of it, I’ve learned how to connect people to ideas