Portfolio

VIDEOS

• THE PROVIDER (35 minutes), short extracted from the TV Pilot ("Welcome to the Family" episode of THE PROVIDER series), Boston, July 2024 
• "Objects in the Mirror," (seven minutes), asked to pen script for Women Only Project's Flicks4Chicks entry; screened at Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA, 2016
• "Prompt," (five minutes), one of five short films selected & produced by the Women Only Project, Amherst, Mass., 2015 
•  "To The Power of You," (20-, 30-, & 60-second Public Service Announcements), Named Best PSA, Best Director, Best Editor, Best Cinematographer in the inaugural 7DayPSA Competition hosted by FLICKERS, and nominated for a Regional Emmy Award (2011), was created for Big Sisters of Rhode Island. The PSA also won a category of the New Media Film Festival, Nov. 5, 2011, in San Francisco, and toured in a Best of Compilation from the Festival.
• "A New Approach," (two+ minutes), web video for the Ann McLane Kuster for Congress campaign, with colleagues at EVP Marketing & Media and one of my former UNH at Manchester students.
• UNWOUND (five minutes), starring Kevin Richardson & Avery Clyde, filmed in Claremont, NH, 2011
• "The Power of Together," (seven minutes), Boys and Girls Club of Greater Concord, 2012
• "Room to Dream" (a.k.a. "The Liberty Story") (seven minutes), winner of the Silver Telly Award, Concord Boys & Girls Club Annual Breakfast, 2011
• "Matt Anderson's Story" (seven minutes), Winner of the Bronze Telly Award, Concord Boys & Girls Club Annual Breakfast, 2010 
• "Lemonade Stand" (20 minutes), Winner of Project Midnight Short Script Competition, New Hampshire, 2002

SCRIPT AWARDS

• Quarterfinalist, Shore Scripts Short Screenwriting Competition, U.K., 2015
• Winner, Women Only Project, one of five short scripts selected to be produced and screened at UMASS Amherst, 2015
• Fourth Place Overall, ​Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition, 2013
• Semifinalist, Shoreline Scripts Screenwriting Competition, 2012
• Finalist, Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival's Script-to-Screen Competition, 2012
• First Prize, Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2002
• First, Breckenridge Festival of Film Script Competition (children/family), 2002
• First Place, Project Midnight Short Script Competition, 2002
• Semifinalist, Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project, 2002
• Finalist, New Hampshire Film Expo Script Competition, 2002
• Quarterfinalist, CineStory Short Script Competition, 2002
• Writer’s Digest Competition: Seventh, 2002; Honorable Mention, 2001
• Second & Third, Breckenridge Festival of Film Script Competition (children/family), 2001
• Second-Round, Austin Heart of the Film Screenplay Competition, 2000
• Finalist, Massachusetts Film Office Screenplay Competition, 2000

TALENT/VOICE OVERS

• Crazy Aunt, Snapchat national ad campaign for Milton Bradley, 2015
• Trouble (video), Nun, a713 Productions, 2011
• Anniversary Celebration (video), Voice Over & Writer, Capitol Center for the Arts, Fall 2010
• Make-Up (micro-fiction podcast), Author, NH Writers’ Project, Winner Literary Idol, 2009
• Take Ten (one-act plays) & Thesis Projects (scripts), assorted characters, Goddard College, 2007
• Untitled (sales video), Voice Over & Writer, General Dynamics, 2006
• Finding Sarah & Phillip (PSAs), Voice Over, Writer & Producer, Rachel Find Organization, 2005
• Cheerio! (video for kids), Talent & Writer, Contemporary Artists Center Dark Ride Project, 1996
• Talk of the Town (local talk show), Co-host, interviewing locals of interest, 1995-1996

PRODUCED PLAYS

• Ghost & Gussie Roy (youth, 45-minute), ​Henniker Community School Stage Company, Spring 2015
• Double Take (ten-minute), Granite Playwrights, Ink., Audi Page to Stage, March 2011
• Baby Steps (one-act), theatreKAPOW "Baby Shoes" Project, Derry, NH, March 2011
• No Skating (ten-minute), Boston Theatre Marathon, Actors' Shakespeare Project, May 2009 
• In Morning (ten-minute), Granite Playwrights, Ink., Audi Page to Stage, February 2009
• Safety Deposit Boxes (ten-minute), NH Theatre Project of Portsmouth, July 2009, & NH Institute of Technology, December 2007
• Automatic Withdrawal (one-act), “Take Ten” presentation, Goddard College, July 2007
• Fluffy Follow Devil (adaptation of Tom Sawyer), Alchemist’s Workshop (AW), 2004
• A Tale of Two Hennikers (youth), Five girls make the best of the worst of times. AW, 2003
• Talking About an Evolution (short/youth), Companion to “Two Hennikers,” AW, 2003
• McTwisting the Moon (adapted from short script/comedy), He had a ball! AW, 2003

PUBLISHED

• I Cannot Play With You (Lyme disease murder mystery novel), Black Rose Writing
• "Dem Bones," "The Hunt," & "Witted" (Twitter fiction), Tiny Text
• "Fast Five" (article), Business NH Magazine, Manchester, NH
• "Central High Grad Brian Tassey Prepares to Teach Our Youth," UNH Manchester Blog
• "Manchester Native Jola Leary Discovers Beauty in Sign Language Interpretation Program at UNH Manchester," UNH Manchester Blog
• "Dr. Stefrankin's Last Rites," "Solitary Intrusion," "He Thinks/She Thinks,"& "A Taxing Affair" (twitter fiction) One Forty Fiction
• "No Skating" (ten-minute play), Boston Theatre Marathon XI Anthology, published by Smith & Kraus, Edited by Kate Snodgrass  
• "Bat! Duck!" (essay) SNReview
• "Playing House" (short script) Pitkin Review
• "Help! I Want to be a Scriptwriter" (article) The Dabbling Mum
• "Life's a Pitch" (essay) Absolute Write
• "Meeting Jeff Bridges" (poem) Chickenpinata

• "Stage Play, Screenplay: A Writer's View" (essay) NH Arts Journal, Page 17 (note: scroll bar reads page 19)
• "Mito-Kids and Deaf Perception" (article) New Hampshire Magazine
• "Writing Prompts" (article) New Hampshire Writer

This is the original design that hangs in Dana's home. It brings happy memories of chasing icebergs in Newfoundland via the Iceberg spotter app. That was Memorial Day Weekend in 2017.

The iceberg that prompted the artwork. This was found in Bay Bulls, Newfoundland--about a 40 minute drive south along the shore from St. John's.

The colors of the sea strewn with icebergs as they glide past, melting on their southern journey.