A graduate of Osseo and a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he started getting attention from The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete after its run at the Sundance Film Festival. During Sundance, it was announced that he would be working on an untitled Tupac Shakur feature film. He also worked on an adaptation of the science fiction comic The Great Unknown for Warner Brothers, and his script Watch Roger Do His Thing made the Black List of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays. Not to mention, he wrote a series called Black Jack for Comedy Central back in 2011. He is an avid fan of Paul Thomas Anderson and the Coen Brothers.