Work that shipped. Teams that made it.
Every project in this portfolio is as much a portrait of a team and its journey through the challenges as the work itself. I measure my work not only by what was delivered, but by what the people on the team became in the making — the potential I saw before they did, drawn out in discourse, diversities of views, deliberate pairings, and the kind of trust that lets someone go further than they knew they could. The finished work is evidence. The team is the achievement.
Slyyd
Slyyd is an app-first rethink of professional lighting control, built for the next generation of storytellers that use light as their medium. A tool that models the desired outcome and then achieves it precisely, across every LED fixture in the market. Built from inside the profession after twenty years at the center of the lighting workflow.
The Crowded Room
Exploring dissociative identity disorder through the true story of Billy Milligan. Shot on location across New York City and surrounding area, with period-specific practical-first lighting throughout.
Bros
Romantic comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, one of the first major-studio films with an all-LGBTQ+ principal cast. Billy Eichner co-wrote the screenplay and stars opposite Luke Macfarlane.
Monsterland
Eight episodes adapting Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters. Each episode stood as its own mini feature film with a distinct visual register, filmed in the NYC metro area but scripted far outside it. An LED-fixture-only rig across locations and stages, with wireless and mobile control built in, programmed by Chuan Chi Chan and run by data tech Jesse Skogh.
You
The pilot and first season of what became one of Netflix’s most-watched series globally. Penn Badgley plays Joe Goldberg across a New York City that is both familiar and dangerous — shot before the series relocated production to Los Angeles for subsequent seasons.
After the Wedding
A remake of Susanne Bier’s 2006 Danish film, with the genders of the central characters reversed. Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams lead. Shot in New York and Connecticut by Julio Macat ASC, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019, and featured as the American Cinematographer cover story that September.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The true story of Lee Israel, the biographer who turned to forging celebrity letters to sustain herself after her career stalled. Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant both received Academy Award nominations for their performances, with a third nomination for the adapted screenplay.
The second Brandon Trost collaboration, after That Awkward Moment, was photographed on the Panavision DXL2, one of the most sensitive sensors of its generation. The picture became an exercise in subtracting light rather than adding it: practicals rebulbed for the camera, fixtures wired for remote dimming, windows doing the heavy lifting whenever the schedule allowed. The budget was tight and the schedule tighter, and late autumn in New York meant short daylight hours we worked through carefully.
The signature solve was an apartment that overlooked an airshaft, isolated from the changing daylight on the street. The grips rigged an ultrabounce sky above the field of view, and big HMIs bouncing down from a window above the set gave the location permanent, consistent daylight at any hour.
Wormwood
A six-part Netflix docudrama investigating the 1953 death of Frank Olson, a US Army biochemist whose fall from a New York hotel window has never been fully explained. Directed by Errol Morris — a hybrid of scripted drama and documentary interview unlike anything else in the Netflix catalogue at the time.
Nerve
A live-streamed dares game played across all five boroughs at night. Emma Roberts and Dave Franco lead. Sustained night exterior work at scale, directed by Henry Joost and Ariel “Rel” Schulman.
Younger
Darren Star’s flagship comedy, shot entirely in New York City. The same gaffer across DoPs John Thomas and Hollis Meminger, carrying the show from Season One’s tungsten, HMI, and KinoFlo rig to Season Seven’s nearly all-LED package, with complete wireless control.
Blended
Romantic comedy directed by Frank Coraci, shot on location at Sun City and the Palace of the Lost City in South Africa.
Pitch Perfect
A cappella comedy with Anna Kendrick leading an ensemble cast performing at collegiate competition level. Jason Moore’s directorial debut, shot by Julio Macat ASC and filmed in Louisiana and on LSU’s campus. Finals and opening sequences programmed in previz and run on SMPTE timecode during production.
