Selected work, from strategic communications to creative storytelling.

Strategic & Business Writing

Writing and communications for organizations across technology, education, energy, advocacy, and other sectors. 

• IBM, Human Capital Management — enterprise consulting
• Website Copy — homepage and service pages for a global certification company
• B2B Business Article — SaaS thought leadership
• Feature Article — long-form storytelling
• Case Study: Creating a Trade Show Brochure

My broader work has included reports, white papers, executive communications, brand messaging, websites, articles, development communications, and thought leadership.

Ghostwriting

I’ve ghostwritten books, articles, executive communications, and thought leadership 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 consciousness, history, memory, family, 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
• “Meditate and Create!” — on consciousness and creative flow
• “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 micro-fiction on attention, oblivion, and the details that outlast us

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 you’re looking for a particular type of sample that isn’t shown here, just ask.

Warren is a self-starter and a highly skilled communicator with a very broad skill set. I can heartily endorse him for any communications position.

 

Heather Secrist, Sr. Vice President, FoodChain ID