CREATOR

THE BURG

Debuted in June 2006 and posted episodes regularly until 2008, and was the first online independent sitcom to be made in New York, and the first to get significant press, audience, acclaim and Hollywood attention.

We completed one season to a truly fantastic response, then integrated Motorola into a 9-part miniseries in 2007. Though this allowed us to successfully fund the show for once, our attention veered into attempting to turn The Burg into a television show. Having to ditch Season 2 mid-production, we continued to make sporadic episodes and shorts.

The Burg starred Kelli Giddish (later of Law and Order and Chase), Lindsey Broad (later of The Office and Til Death), Matt Yeager, Jeff Skowron, Bob McClure, Chris O'Connor and Maria Hurdle. My primary partners in this project were Kathleen Grace, Matt Yeager, Ana Veselic and Johnny North.

Exemplary Episodes (click to watch):

• Hip or Dangerous (our first, and shortest, piece)

• Cred (first full episode)

• Bar (terrible production values, but a fan favorite)

• Fan Mail (a dramatic reading of a piece of hate mail we received)

• Training (another fan favorite)

• Show (our closing episode of Season 1)

• Change (our most recent episode)

And here you can download our press kit, which has many of the original articles on The Burg.

THE ALL-FOR-NOTS 

A webseries produced by Dinosaur Diorama and Michael Eisner / Vuguru. It debuted in 2008 online and on television on Mark Cuban's HDNet. At the time of its debut, it was the largest and most expensive webseries production to date (75+ episodes over the course of 6 months).

The All-For-Nots starred a cast of musician-actors including Kevin Johnston, Vanessa Reseland, Michael Moravek, Erica Harsch, Brian Cheng and Marielle Heller. I was also among the cast, as well as being one of the creators/producers (along with Kathleen Grace), writers (with Matt Yeager and Andrew Wagner) and composers (with Johnston, Reseland and Kyle Jarrow). The show came about after Michael Eisner approached Kathleen Grace and I with an offer to buy and produce more episodes of The Burg. We declined that offer in favor of making a new show.

As a real band, we played shows all around New York, toured Montreal and Boston, and kicked off the series with a big show at SXSW in 2008. We recorded a 12-song album (mostly to score the series). The highlight was definitely our performance on the Jimmy Kimmel show.

The All-For-Nots was an extremely ambitious project, and was nominated for 3 Streamy Awards in 2008 for Best Ad Integration, Best Music, and Best Cinematography (by Jack Ferry).

ALL’S FAIRE 

A webseries produced by Dinosaur Diorama, created by myself and Bob McClure, written by myself, McClure and Matt Yeager, and directed by myself and Johnny North. It starred Michael Pemberton, Trevor Jones, Letitia Lange, McClure, Yeager, myself, Jeff Skowron, Maryll Botula, Joe Thompson, Mike Still, Josephine Roberts, Mandy Bruno, Robert Bogue, David Chase and Rolls Andre.

All's Faire began life as early as 2003, when Bob McClure and I sat down to write a feature about the Renaissance Faire. After several years of tinkering and some interest by small production companies and independent producers, we launched several short episodes right on the heels of the launch of The All-For-Nots. These were well received critically. For the shoot of the full feature-length season, we partnered with the Midsummer Renaissance Faire in Pennsylvania, and the New Jersey Renaissance Kingdom. The end result was a series that developed a relatively small but intensely passionate audience. The Renaissance community embraced the show and helped it grow. It got noteworthy attention from the mainstream webseries community as well, being nominated for Streamy Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Music, and for the first Writer's Guild Award for Internet Writing.

The full series can be watched at www.allsfaire.tv.