Writer. Filmmaker.

“Which way is New York, motherfuckers?”

I was born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1980. We detoured to Ohio for five years before landing back in the Mountaineer state—just long enough for me to finish high school and get the hell back out as fast as I could.

At 18, I moved to Charleston, South Carolina to attend the College of Charleston. I was originally pursuing a degree in marine biology through the Academic Common Market tuition program, and I even walked onto the tennis team—though that fizzled out by midterms.

Freshman year, I signed up for a philosophy course to fulfill a humanities requirement, took a class on existentialism — and that was it for me. A minor in philosophy quickly turned into a second major. I graduated in 2002 with a B.S. in Marine Biology and a B.A. in Philosophy.

Throughout college, I had been working on a novel. That book, Grotesque, was published under the name B.E. Saville in 2003.

On a small book tour through East Coast college towns, I visited New York for the first time, fell in love with Brooklyn—and never really left.

On the Set of Williamsburg in 2005

In 2004, I moved to Brooklyn full-time. While working as a casting coordinator for Elimidate, I met the investor who would help me make my first feature film. That film, Williamsburg (watch here for free), was completed in 2006. It was a satirical look at the “artists” in the hipster neighborhood at the time. It screened at several festivals and earned critical praise — Film Threat gave it three and a half stars, calling it “an impressive and memorable achievement.”

After Williamsburg, I began writing for the stage. I had several short plays produced by Blue Box Productions as part of their Sticky series, and later co-founded Eastwind Theater Company with a group of actors I’d been collaborating with. We produced three full-length plays I wrote and directed in Off-Off Broadway houses around Manhattan.

Taking questions about Regretting Fish after it’s screening at Las Vegas International Film Festival 2012

In 2010, I began shooting my second feature, Regretting Fish (watch here for free). I cast many of the same actors I’d been working with for years. The film premiered at the Williamsburg International Film Festival, where it won Best Feature and Best Screenplay. It later screened at other festivals, including Las Vegas International and Syracuse International.

Then, everything changed.

I stepped away from filmmaking for over a decade to run a moving company, and it nearly sucked the life from me. If you’re curious about how that happened —  I wrote about it here.

In 2024, I returned to writing with renewed focus, clarity, and intent.

In the summer of 2025, I finished my first screenplay in over a decade — a comedy about a South Brooklyn family who owns a golf course, which I’m now trying to get made.

I’m currently writing a new novel, The City Is My Mistress, which I’m publishing serially on my Substack, Savillionaire— one chapter per week until it’s complete. Once finished, the full book will be released as a traditional print edition. Subscribe here to follow along.

At the 2024 Brooklyn Open  “[cutting] a more classic figure in his beige cashmere sweater and tortoiseshell sunglasses.” –NY Times, Style Section