Reno, a performance artist in New York City, is pissed off. She lives downtown in what used to be a quiet, inexpensive artist’s neighborhood, and is now being very noisily built into a multimillion dollar condo paradise for lawyers. She has suspicions that the city garbage trucks are dumping the recycling into the same pile as everything else. There are issues with tourists, dog-intolerance, traffic, science, politics, human behavior, civilization itself. Reno is a vigilante armed to the teeth with a barrage of words that she brings right into the face of anyone who has something to do with anything that’s just wrong.

Entertainment Weekly and NY Magazine Picks. Lily Tomlin also executive produced.

Citizen Reno

Bravo - 4 episodes

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - DIRECTOR

It’s difficult being a person. There are all manner of fears, procrastinations and confusions that can ruin your life. That’s why there are comedians, to help you overcome your incompetence in buying a car, your terror of having your feet touched, to help you find the strength to accept your accelerating baldness or be man enough to discuss what might be just right for your wife in a lingerie store. Seasoned in complex human interactions, our stable of America’s finest comedians tackled the little things that make humanity miserable.

Guests included Jeff Garlin, Laura Kightlinger and Orlando Jones.

Comics On Delivery (COD)

Comedy Central - 13 episodes

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - DIRECTOR (pilot episode)

Nearly everyone has a longing, or at the very least a chronic curiosity about someone who once mattered and then fell off the radar. It could be an ex-lover, a childhood friend, a war buddy. In the case of filmmaker Albert Maysles, it was a woman he barely knew in high school. Decades later couldn’t forget the beauty in her eyes, and why this image lingered was a mystery to him. His fantasy was to meet her on a train. So we set our detectives loose and found her, and meet on the train they did, resulting in an unforgettable experience for both of them, and a fascinating portal into two compelling life stories.

Lost & Found was a critically-acclaimed series that ran for three years.

Lost & Found

fX - 22 episodes

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - DIRECTOR (pilot episode)

Originally produced for the syndication company, Partner Stations Network, then sold to Lifetime, Three Blind Dates was the very first reality dating show.  Unencumbered by a host, three sets of two people revealed their romantic histories, foibles and hopes and were then thrown together to live out their fantasies and nightmares.

Three Blind Dates

PSN - Lifetime - 25 episodes

CREATOR - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Over the course of an hour of music videos, I would show up in between and talk to people in a particular place or about a particular thing. It could be research into why people like to travel, but mostly hate to take local transportation, or a visit to a crowd of 3000 playing million dollar bingo at a Native American reservation, or a look at the nature of competition at the Winter Olympics in France, or an inquiry into the nature of fame at the Grammys.

Street Talk

VH-1 -  Over 100 1 to 2 minute episodes

CREATOR - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - HOST

Action Pack

AMC - Ongoing

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - DIRECTOR

Matt McCarthy and Nick Stevens are The Action Pack. They hang out chronically doing all manner of things that people do; they get haircuts, do laundry, play sports, eat, walk, shop or get a carwash. But no matter what they’re doing, they talk about action movies. Arguably, they are experts, but without question, they are passionate. Once they even travelled to LA to learn to become action heroes with military, flight and martial arts training, but ended up running a bus tour that visited action movie locations. You can see them in short bursts between the breaks of, coincidentally, action movies, Wednesday nights at 8 on AMC or at amctv.com.