I got my start at the Second City in Chicago, and during my time as a musical director I've underscored live music for literally hundreds of improvised scenes. That experience has given me a unique sense of how music and sound can support and heighten dramatic action without overwhelming it.

Jesse combines his experience as a studio producer and instincts as an improvisor to make music that's specifically tailored in every element to the story it's helping to tell.

FILMS (LONG AND SHORT)

AMERICAN SCHEMERS

INDIE COMEDY - Two con artists INFILTRATE A COMMUNITY OF… OTHER CON ARTISTS?

DISINGENUOUS

NICK VATTEROTT GETS STUCK IN A TIME LOOP [STREAM NOW!]

GRIFFICA

A man suspects his perfect, coffee-loving boyfriend is a demon.

ANTIDOTE

Action/Comedy - a master plan doesn’t go according to plan

LET’S SHARE

AIDY BRYANT'S just havin’ some fun

MOTION SICKNESS

Fran Gackle visits a psychic - BY SARAH SHOOK

DON DRAPER IS STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR

RJD2 MEETS elevator music. For Funny or Die.

UNDERPASSED

SO CLOSE TO A COOL action moviE - BY T.J. MILLER

BLOOMKAMPF

Absurdist Film-Noir BASED ON BUKOWSKI - BY BEN ARFMANN

SHE KNOWS ME

ROMANTIC/SURREAL - GAMOPHOBIA IN PROSPECT PARK - BY BEN ARFMANN

FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES

ART AND PEP

ON THE CIVIL-RIGHTS-REVOLTUIONIZING, SIDETRACKS-FOUNDING COUPLE

100 BIRDS HARMONIZING

RELEASED AS “LITTLE TIGER” - On Cantonese Opera

THE GREEN HOUSE EFFECT

On a shelter for abused women

IT HAS NOT BEEN EASY

On Single Mothers in Science

SELECTED SERIES

THE COAT ROOM

LOVE AND LINGERIE, BUT NOT IN A GOOD WAY

DOOMSDATE

Award-winning horror-comedy-romance POST-APOCALYPTIC-adventure.

HARDER THAN IT LOOKS

THAT Online College LIFE - By Seth Weitberg [DRUNK HISTORY, THE OPPOSITION]

HOW TO GET A GIRL/FRIEND

A buddy comedy about a LADY with no buddies

A GRAND UNDERTAKING

JUST YOUR classic funeral home sitcom

SELECTED SCORES FOR THEATRE

FOXFINDER

INTERROBANG THEATRE PROJECT

ILLUMINOCTEM

SINGLE CARROT THEATRE, BALTIMORE

NOTHING TO LOSE (BUT OUR CHAINS)

WOOLLY MAMMOTH AND SECOND CITY