What’s a nice Yank like me doing among all these accursed Redcoats? Well…
In 1995, my girlfriend Lauren followed me to Los Angeles, so that I could go to grad school for two years. I got a job working for Dennis Miller Live, and two years stretched into seven. We got engaged, and then married.
And then Lauren got a great job offer in London. It was long past due for Lauren to take her turn deciding where we would live. So we made the decision that I would give up my job at Dennis Miller Live, and we’d both move to London.
About a week later, Dennis Miller Live was canceled. It turns out I got the noble-sacrifice brownie points without making quite so much of a sacrifice as I had expected.
Since moving here, I’ve sold a sitcom pilot script to the BBC (although, sadly, it was never aired.) I’ve become a freelance contributor to The Onion. I’ve been commissioned by a European production company to write a feature script; an Oscar-winning director is currently attached to it (I’m too superstitious to mention him by name at this point.) And I’ve written a book called The Government Manual For New Superheroes, which is now available in stores near you. And keep an eye out for The Government Manual for New Wizards, coming soon.
I’ve also written and directed a few short films, one of which took me to the Berlinale Film Festival. My ultimate goal is to make a living directing my own feature film scripts. For now, I’m pretty happy just to be getting paid to write.