Who is Oscar?

My love for storytelling began the first time I saw Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. I watched it every day after school, quite literally until the VHS tape broke. Then came Ender's Game, a book that didn’t just inspire me, it awakened something in me. I didn’t just want to read stories. I wanted to understand them, shape them, and eventually, tell them. I wrote my first short story at 12 years old, unknowingly beginning a lifelong pursuit of meaning through narrative.

At its core, my relationship with storytelling has always been spiritual. If Star Wars had any competition in my childhood as fuel for my imagination, it would most definitely be the Holy Bible. My mother is a pastor and evangelist, and the first book of the bible I ever read completely through was Revelation. (Not weird at all). Long before I had the language for it, I was drawn to stories that wrestled with purpose, identity, sacrifice, and destiny—themes that would later become central to both my faith and my work.

I earned a degree in Journalism from Norfolk State University and began a secure career with the federal government. But comfort and calling eventually began to clash. In what I can only describe as a step of faith, I walked away from that path to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. Along the way, I earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Full Sail University and built a body of work as an actor, with credits across Amazon Prime, BET, CBS (Bull), and NBC (NCIS).

After the pandemic, I felt a clear and undeniable pull back to writing, my first creative love. Acting taught me how to inhabit a story. Writing allows me to wrestle with it, and as a devout follower of Jesus Christ, my faith now plays a defining role in the stories I’m drawn to and the ones I choose to tell. I’m deeply interested in narratives that explore belief in tension with reality. Faith under pressure, morality in gray areas, ambition versus purpose, calling versus comfort, and the unseen forces that shape human decisions. Whether explicit or implicit, my work often lives at the intersection of the spiritual and the human experience.

I believe the best stories don’t just entertain—they reveal, they challenge, they confront, they ask the questions we don’t always have the courage to ask out loud.

Today, I write across film, television, game narratives, and short-form digital content, bringing together everything I’ve learned—from performance to prose—to create stories that resonate on both emotional and existential levels. I’m currently based in Los Angeles, where I’m an active member of Oasis Church. When I’m not writing, I’m studying scripture, spending time with my wife and family, or getting lost in films like Malcolm X, Interstellar, The Matrix, and 2001: A Space Odyssey—stories that, in their own way, wrestle with the same questions that have shaped my journey.