
Finnialla is a multifaceted weirdo specializing in queer stories found in stores with blacked-out curtains and left in Denny’s parking lots at 2 a.m. They create comedic television, love poetry, and mystery novels that center around outcasts with stories others consider low brow.Usual haunts include oddities shops, cemeteries, and the occasional dumpster.Non Binary. They/them.
TELEVISION
ORIGINALS
CAMP KUMBAYA - It's June 1986, and we're stuck at Camp Kumbaya, the biggest evangelical summer camp on the west coast. Group Exodus, the resident bad kids go about sneaking out of godly activities until it goes sideways when they stumble upon a dead body of the popular girl, Heather. With a bunch of cryptic clues that point to a decade's long mystery, they enlist the help of the camp cook Steven and a local teenager/deejay Riley, to uncover the secrets of the town and hopefully find the killer.THE SHED - Lucas is a budding shop owner and punk rocker in a small town, navigating his growing relationship with local city counsel member, Alex, when his father dies unexpectedly. Trying to honor his father’s last wish of being cryogenically frozen, he proceeds to stick his father in a refrigerated shed with large blocks of dry ice. Hilarity ensues when the small conservative town finds out about Lucas’s makeshift walk-in mausoleum cooler.KINGS REST INN - When a young woman takes over her families motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico, things take a dark turn when a young sex worker is found stabbed. What comes next opens up a mystery into mysterious deaths at the motel and the family at the center of it.THE ORACLE OF DELPHI, INDIANA - The new girl, Alice is just trying to fit in Delphi, Indiana when she becomes enamored with the new English teacher, Mr. Williams. When he proposes an after school reading club, many of the young women start joining, but lurking below the surface is the teacher's sinister motive and his plan to save humanity.
SPECS
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH
YOUNG ONES
THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES
ARTICLES
An October 2022 News Recap
The Death of Iran’s Theocracy: Teenagers
Why Young People Need To Vote in the Midterms
Queer Rewriting: The Hesitancy to Put LGBTQ+ and Drag Characters on Screen
Anti Trans Bills in the U.S.
Hot Strike Summer
The Price of Banning Books
POETRY
MUSING PUBLICATIONS - The Nuances of New Age Feminism (Fall 2022)MESSY MISFITS ZINE - Issue 3: Identity (Fall 2022)THE CREATIVE ZINE - Fall 2022 issueRAT WORLD MAGAZINE - NSFW Valentines zine 2023SPILLOVER MAGAZINE - Issue 3: Anachronism (Spring 2023)SCAB MAGAZINE - Fall 2023 issueOUTLANDER ZINE - Staff Poet
NOVELS
VIRTUES OF MEN - When a man is found murdered on Santa Monica pier, Damian Lamont is the only detective in the city of Los Angeles who will investigate it. What he discovers is a web of lies and blackmail that winds the city together and wants to desperately protect the murderers involved. Damian has to uncover the truth and keep the people he loves safe before he ends up at the wrong end of a murderer's gun.A SKATE WITH DEATH -
RESUME
EXPERIENCE
FREELANCE WRITER/ARTIST: SELF EMPLOYED
- Helped develop multiple disciplines of marketing for indie companies and publications (logo and website design, poster illustration, and social media analytics).
- Proficient in multiple applications such as Adobe, Da Vinci re-coloring, AVID, Microsoft Office, SAS, and Procreate.
- Crafted, printed, and shipped zines, art prints, stickers, and pins for own art shop.CURRENT EVENTS WRITER/POET: INCOGNITO PRESS
- Provided multiple articles/poems each month in a variety of diciplines.
- Edited and revised articles collaborately with multiple editors and the EIC for electronic publication.COVER/GRAPHIC DESIGNER: MUSING PUBLICATIONS
- Created moodboards, sample sketches, and final rendered drawings in a timely manner.
- Collaborated with EIC and authors to execute visions of front covers for poetry chapbooks and quarterly zine.
EDUCATION
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Savannah, Georgia
Bacholers in Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing with a minor in Film and Television (Editing and Directing concentrations)
Extracurricular Achievements
SCAD Elephant in the Room Poetry
- Secretary/treasurer (1 year)
- President/ICC Liasson (2 years)SCAD Original Pilot
“Tours and Attractions”
- Punch up and revisionist writer
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Deans list (Academics) - all four years
Magna Cum Laude - 3.9 GPA
SKILLS
TECHNICAL
Microsoft Office 360
Adobe Suite
Final Draft
AVID
Studio Binder
Movie Magic Software
- Scheduling
- Budgeting
CREATIVE
Playwriting
Podcasting
UX/VR
Poetry
Novels
Journalism
Copywriting
Mixed Media Work
ACCOLADES
Screenmatic Screenplay Awards
- Camp Kumbaya (Quarterfinalist)Final Draft’s Big Break
- Camp Kumbaya (Quarterfinalist - Television Diversity)ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
- Camp Kumbaya (Quarterfinalist)