Selected work, from strategic communications to creative storytelling.

FLAGSHIP INSTITUTIONAL WORK
Help for foundations, think tanks, and mission-driven institutions producing a major report, white paper, or book. See recent case studies and engagement models.
Institutional & Flagship Work →

Strategic & Business Writing

Writing and communications for organizations working in technology, education, energy, advocacy, and other fields. 

• IBM, Human Capital Management — enterprise consulting
• B2B Business Article — SaaS thought leadership
• Feature Article — long-form storytelling
• Case Study: FoodChain ID Website Rebuild

Please reach out and ask to see additional samples.

Ghostwriting

I’ve ghostwritten books, articles, and executive communications for clients in entertainment, global health, business, and other fields.

At the Shoah Foundation, I ghostwrote articles for its chairman, Steven Spielberg. I’ve also ghostwritten several nonfiction books.

Much of this work is confidential or covered by NDAs, so public samples are limited. I’m happy to discuss relevant projects and provide references.

Video & Script Writing

Scripts and story development for brands, institutions, documentaries, and museum installations. 

• Museum Kiosk Documentary, Wreck of the Julia Anne — a multi-voice historical narrative adapted from survivors’ diaries and letters, for the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum
• Script Analysis — screenplay coverage for Universal Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, and the Bedford Falls Company
• Medical Explainer — patient-education video script translating complex material for a general audience

Books

Waking Maya — a visionary novel about spiritual awakening, collective consciousness, and the mysteries beneath everyday reality.

A Kirkus “Get It” Pick.

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Essays, Plays & Stories

My creative work explores family, history, memory, consciousness, film, humor, and the inner life.

Essays

• “How to Shoot 64 Documentaries a Day” — a Spielberg look-alike juggling a worldwide race to preserve Holocaust testimonies
• “My Extraordinary Parents” — on being the son of a survivor
• “Movies from the Heart“— what filmmakers get right when they stop performing
• “Spirits in the Trees and Other Lessons from the Back Patio” — on nature, presence, and slowing down

Short Fiction

• “Meeting of a Man and a Chair” — a very short story about attention, oblivion, and the strange things the mind holds onto

Plays

• Warsaw — a family drama set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1939, exploring inherited trauma and the limits of forgiveness. Finalist, Baltimore Playwrights Festival; full stage production. (90 minutes — request the script)

• The Root of the Matter — an unlucky-in-love woman, a psychic, and the exes who get to talk back (script)

• The Big Christmas Surprise — dead mothers, old grudges, and Santa at the door (radio play — listen)

Over my career, I’ve completed hundreds of writing and communications projects. If there’s something you’re looking for that you don’t see here, just ask.

Warren’s ability to develop marketing collateral and programs with very little input from knowledge experts is remarkable. He can take minimal input and turn it into work that is 80-90% on target the first time.

 

Matt Rausenberger, former COO, MindWorks