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 personal narrative, medical mystery, 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.

    Vespucci / L+R / CBC

    Reporting, Production, Story Editing, Sound Design, Scoring

  • 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

  • Original Soundtrack

    Two young, idealistic sex workers find themselves in serious trouble as their clients start turning up dead.

    *In production*

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


Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting (You Didn’t See Nothin’)

2024


Peabody Award (You Didn’t See Nothin’)

2023