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Recognition:

FINALIST (Top 10) in the 1st Annual 2021 Stage 32 Diversity Springboard Screenwriting Competition for original comedy drama TV pilot script- PRIVILEGE

 

Standup Comedy:

 

Commercial Work:

Manoj Rao | Actor

 

 

Writing and Producing Portfolio:

 


Music Video: Gold Lover by d.eeyah

Executive produced the official music video for Gold Lover by singer songwriter d.eeyah, directed by award winning director Luis Kuri, and his production company Mastadonte.

 


Comedy Web Series: The Startup

Created, Wrote, & Executive Produced (Raised capital & Planned) the comedy web series – The Startup.  The series was headlined by established name actors from popular TV series like A to Z, Outsourced, Falling Skies, Marvel’s Daredevil, Heroes, Scrubs as well as hot up & coming talent from Music Videos & Movies.  The Startup was very favorably featured in multiple Huffington Post articles including this one.

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The Startup performed astonishingly well on FunnyorDie.com garnering a 91% Funny rating with thousands of votes cast.


Reality Web Series Featuring Jennifer Lopez: #AnythingCanHappen

ConceptualizedExecutive-Produced (Raised capital, Planned & Directed) a series of reality videos called #AnythingCanHappen.  Worked closely with Jennifer Lopez, Benny Medina & corporate sponsors to produce videos that saw a million views on YouTube.

Series Teaser:

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Part 2:


Stop-Motion Animated Instagram Video Shorts for Jennifer Lopez:

Produced (Raised capital & oversaw production) of a series of 3 Stop-Motion Instagram videos for Jennifer Lopez’ Barbie launch. The Instagram videos saw hundreds of thousands of views and the campaign garnered national attention on Time.com and PerezHilton


Action-Adventure Digital Comic Series: WMD’s The Weapons Are Coming

Created, Wrote & Produced a comic book series for the iPhone called WMD’s The Comic.  WMDs achieved over 40K downloads worldwide.


Writer | Director | Producer | Actor | Comedian