I’ve been honored with an Emmy Award and two BDA Gold Awards. Since moving to the East Coast, I primarily edit independent features and documentaries. My early background is in theatrical lighting and sound design; I broke into editing doing commercial spot work, often doing both the offline and online finish. Most recently I cut the second of a series of documentaries by director Michael Apted, Married in America. I edited The Simian Line, a feature film with Harry Connick Jr., Tyne Daly, William Hurt and Lynn Redgrave, directed by Linda Yellen. I co-edited, with director Heather MacDonald, Been Rich All My Life, currently in theatrical release. Another collaboration with Ms. MacDonald was Ballot Measure 9, which, before its theatrical release was feted with an Audience Award at Sundance and a Teddy at Berlin. It still airs frequently on broadcast and cable. PBS projects include: Vis-à-Vis: Native Tongues and Lives Together, Worlds Apart. I edited Dialogue with the Dalai Lama for Link TV and a feature piece for National Geographic called Wade Davis, A Charmed Life. A recent endeavor culminated in a six hour DVD collection of master acting classes in the Michael Chekhov technique. While living in the Seattle area for two years, I worked with the producers of Bill Nye The Science Guy on that series and on a series for National Geographic called Amazing Planet. I also did a lot of commercial work including projects for Microsoft and Boeing. For six years I was a lead editor for PBS station KTCA in Minneapolis/St. Paul. While there, producer Robert Byrd and I created the Diary series: Black Minnesotans, Asian Minnesotans and Native American Minnesotans. Among many projects edited for PBS were The Dakota Conflict; Not Quite American: Bill Holm; Understanding Hate; How to Talk Minnesotan; Music in the Americas; St. Paul Past and Get Over It. I was also lead editor on a number of weekly national series including Newton’s Apple and Alive TV.
