I am a writer, director, media artist, performer, educator, and co-founder of the artist group Studio206 that operates from Berlin, Los Angeles and Providence. Additionally, I co-founded the queer performance group ‘The Family Room Collective’ in Los Angeles. My practice is informed by and engages with public art, media art, performance, film, media history, theory, and criticism.
My work has received numerous awards, including an Emmy Award and Best Film Awards at major festivals such as Seattle, Chicago, and Montreal. It has been theatrically released, broadcasted on public television channels worldwide, and exhibited in spaces in Istanbul, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, Manchester, and Warsaw.
I have served as a Professor of Screenwriting and Serial Storytelling at the international film school in Cologne, Germany, as well as a Professor of Creative Writing at California State University in Los Angeles. At the latter institution, I also held the position of founding director of the Institute for Interactive Arts, Research, and Technology. Since 2021, I have been a Professor of Creative Practice Research at Northeastern University in Boston.
Research/Publications Highlights
ESSAYS
Low Fi, Low Tech–Resisting a Discourse of Mastery, zfiction 21, ZhdK Zuerich,
Switzerland, June 2021 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353446030_Low_Fi_Low_Tech-Resisting_a_Discourse_of_Mastery
Missing Foundations, Intersectionality, and Institutions in the Master’s House, presented at CILECT/GEECT Cologne, Germany, 2019.
https://filmschreiben.de/missing-foundations-diversity-intersectionality-andinstitutions-in-the-masters-house/
Right, Left, High, Low-Narrative Strategies for Non–linear Storytelling, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016/17
BOOKS
Soviet Narratology and Spatial Story Design: The Unintentional Storyteller, Routledge London, 2025.
Interactive Storytelling, editor and contributor, Perform Series, Routledge, 2021
BOOK CHAPTERS
Transcending Bodies, In: Queer Performance Art, In: Art & Art Education, eds. Dirk Reynders, Owl Press, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts NV, Ghent, Netherlands, 2024
Decentralizing the Ego, The Evolving Role of Art Education for Identity Constructions in an Age of AI, In: Art & Art Education, eds. Dirk Reynders, Owl Press, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts NV, Ghent, Netherlands, 2024
Politics of Narrative, in 21st Century Film and TV School Book, a book publication edited by CILECT, The International Association of Film and Television Schools (Centre
International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision – CILECT), Fall 2016
Departments
Theatre, Art + Design
Education
- Freie Universität Berlin (Free University Berlin) Philosophy and Theatre Law School (bar examination, (Staatsexamen=terminal degree)
- University for Film and Television Berlin-Babelsberg (HFF Konrad Wolf) Screenwriting & Film Directing, (Diploma)
- School of Film and Television Munich (HFF München) Graduate of the X. Screenwriting Class (Master Class)
Awards
- 2012 Best Screenplay Winner at Independent Filmmakers Showcase Film Festival, The True and Local Solar Time (screenplay award)
- 2012 The BlueCat Screenplay Competition, Quarterfinalist, The True and Local Solar Time
- 2011 Independent Film Quarterly Film & Media Festival, Maps of Manifold / The True and Local Solar Time (screenplay award)
- 2009 Nominated for the Federal Film Award (best screenplay) The Hours of Night and Stillness Loving
- 2008 Villa Aurora Fellowship, Artists Residency Los Angeles
- 2008 10th Annual BAMkids Film Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Filiz in Flight (best Film)
- 2007 Silver Gryphon Award 37th Children’s Film Festival Giffoni for Filiz in Flight (best Film)
- 2007 International Children’s Film Festival Chicago, certificate of excellence for Filiz in Flight
- 2007 International Film Festival Seattle Proscar (BEST FILM) for Strajk
- 2006 International Film Festival Saturno, Golden Saturn for Strajk
- 2004 Nominated for the German Screenplay Award with Occurrence of Inner Unrest
- 2003 Certificate of excellence for Who is Anna Walentynowicz? BANFF Montreal
- 2001 Mecom Award, Best Screenplay for 2 fish and 1 bicycle
- 2000 INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARDS– best screenplay (Ustinov Award) for Who is Anna Walentynowicz? (later: Strajk)
Courses Taught
- ARTF1240 – Mak w.Video, Sound, + Animation
- ARTF2220 – Movement and Time
- ARTG7100 – Critical Design/Research Sem
- ARTH1100 – Interactive Media and Society
- THTR1125 – Improvisation
- THTR2340 – Theatre and Society
- THTR3670 – Mixed-Media Performance Lab
- THTR4882 – ST:Mixed Media Performance Lab
- THTR6670 – Advanced Mixed Media Perf Lab
- INAM2000 – Ethics in Creativity
- INAM6100 – Fnds of Creative Prac Ldrshp
- INAM6210 – Projs in Intrdscp Creat Practc
- INAM6976 – Directed Study
