I’m Tess, an unabashed geek, but not your average geek. I used to skateboard, and I love punk music. I’d say I’m a punk geek. A sardonic punk geek. My dream has always been to tell the stories and make the animated tv shows that are in my imagination. Stories about characters I never saw on tv or in movies. Irreverent stories about an skinny iconoclastic lesbian from Ohio who finds herself in the craziest situations imaginable. Or stories about a group of misfit debaters in high school just trying to figure out how to win an argument without killing each other.

Therefore, I’m applying for the HBO Max X WarnerMedia Access Animated Shorts Program. I love animation. I recently directed, developed and executive produced an independently funded adult humor animated pilot called Klutz Muttz. I’ve been a comic book collector almost my whole life, grew up going to comic cons and watching Looney Tunes, Invader Zim and Animaniacs endlessly. I want to create my own animated shows that some other misfit, sarcastic, punk LGBTQIA+ kid will watch and identify with, while also laughing their ass off.