of the feature-length film! In graduate school, while I was getting a PhD in mathematics and an MFA in creative writing, I wrote poetry and fiction and several screenplays, including one feature-length screenplay. My thesis, How to Break Article Noun, won an award and a publishing contract. The short screenplays that I wrote were mostly to advertise my friend's t-shirt company, and I only had a few seconds here and there to put them together while I was working on my mathematics dissertation, but I posted the results on youtube. Here is one of the ads:
The Bicycle Thief
I also found some time to cast, shoot, direct, edit, and co-write a short film about the proper way to introduce your two guinea pigs to your home:
The Dating Game
I made a tiny stop-animation film for my friend Mike:
Mike
I made a short film with a team called Any Given Monday that was an official selection at the Baltimore Next Media Web Fest 2020, and a pilot script called The Case of the Lost Brother that was also an official selection. Neat!
All this while working full time as a graduate student in two departments until August 2009 and then working full time in mathematics departments all over the world. Dream accomplished? Not quite... More stuff is on the way. I have a feature-length screenplay, The Life of an Ape, a play, Endless Horizon of an Invisible City, short stories that I'm collecting into a short story collection, and poems that I one day plan to collection as well. And I have plans in the works for another screenplay, a Christmas play, and a tv series. I'm now working at the United States Naval Academy doing research on matroids, polymatroids, delta-matroids, etc., but we'll see how things come along.
