New Jersey Stage Issue 48 | Page 90

you have visuals in your head throughout the creative pro- cess but often the final product fails to match those initials vi- sions however this was certainly not the case with Shellfish. Eric and Wesley ran with my visions and took it to a new level. I also think sometimes we forget just how beautiful our state of New Jersey really can be, especially our beaches. In the words of Quentin Taran- tino “I didn’t go to film school, I went to films.” Definitely self taught and a lot late night hours watching youtube videos on editing. My first film came from a short story I wrote in college called Kill Mills. After college, came the military and in the desert I started fine tuning the story and eventually set it aside. Sev- eral years later after having co- wrote and co-produced a play, seeing how fun and successful that had been, I went back to Kill Mills and started writing it again. I realized it wasn’t work- PROMOTE YOUR SHOWS FOR FREE!! Stage NEW JERSEY add your shows to the NJ Stage calendar