About me
Chaz escaped horror by writing horror. He grew up in Tennessee where the KKK lynches the unlucky, where the Daughters of the Confederacy corrupt every student’s education, where slavery lives as conscripted prison labor, where monuments to human rights atrocities tuck themselves beneath the growing skyline. Opioid addiction runs rampant. Took his dad from dope fiend to dealer to daisies in record time. He grew up among monsters, but didn’t want to become one. So he ran. A Track and Field superstar to his city, Chaz sprinted across the world testing himself and tempering his mettle earning a scholarship to Duke University. There, he found his sword. Art. An obsession with poetry evolved into songwriting which grew into playwriting until, finally, he discovered screenwriting. He was hooked. After graduating, Chaz left for Loyola Marymount University and attained a masters in the craft. Since then, he’s been busy. Chaz made Franklin Leonard’s Black List in 2020 with his debut feature THE SAUCE, built worlds with UCP and Fox, wrote in phenomenal rooms like WHO FEARS DEATH on Max and Emmy contending FALLOUT on Prime, where he received his first sole episode credit, and, now, produces conscientious art to tear apart the monstrous racial construct that marred his own childhood.
RELEASED PROJECTS
FALLOUT (Season One) | Television | Amazon Studios & Kilter | Episode 107
ANNOUNCED UPCOMING PROJECTS
FALLOUT (Season Two) | Television | Amazon Studios & Kilter | TBD
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
THESE WALLS WEAR THIN | Feature | TBD
FORTY | Television | HyperObject