A graduate of both NYU’s film school and ITP program, and a Council Member at the World Experience Organization, Jamie is a writer, filmmaker and creator of immersive experiences, with a particular focus on integrating narrative with technology. 

She started her career writing a screenplay for hire for Universal Studios. Since then, she has won screenwriting awards, directed award-winning short films, and created immersive experiences for companies including Amazon, Asics, AT&T, BMW, Ford, IBM, Lincoln Center/New York Philharmonic, Modcloth, Tezos and Warner Brothers.

She was the Head of Story on WILD: A Safari Experience for Radical Media and Illuminarium. As a lead creative on this project, she was able to combine her skills as a writer, a filmmaker and an immersive storyteller, bridging three of the disciplines she believes are essential in the best experiential entertainment. WILD also led to the incredible opportunity to write and concept for Sphere in Las Vegas.

Since her graduate degree in interactive tech and design, Jamie has focused on helping audiences “live the story.” In addition to traditional mediums, she integrates game design, indexical storytelling, spatial storytelling and/or branching narrative, exploring ways to create fully immersive stories with an emotional impact. She is technology and medium agnostic, working with every element from actors to VR/AR/XR, physical builds, gaming engines and 3D animation. 

Jamie met her business partner Erin Upson on a Warner Bros. project. Jamie was the writer, Erin a producer. They teamed up again and launched Sideways Kitty, a company that uses technology in creative ways to design narrative-driven immersive experiences.