i have worked as an editor, producer, and director across a vast array of genres including commercials, reality television, independent features, and web television. 

as an official artist at the new york television festival in both 2015 and 2014, i developed projects with my brother, brian pargac, for our production company the brothers pargac. In 2014, "wendt crazy," a reality show we shot, edited and produced together was a finalist for the A&E unscripted development pipeline, and in 2015 our project "history's famous fights" was a semifialists for history channel's unscripted development pipeline

the digressions, the web series I co-directed and produced has three seasons online and was named 2014 web series of the year by snobby robot.

i also shoot, edit and produce my own "arts mini-flicks" — institutional, promotional and fundraising videos for arts organizations in new york, los angeles, and beyond.  

below are examples of my work.


arts mini-flicks

the music center 2023-2024 season trailer | editor

the music center provided footage for their dance season performances along with the key art. i edited together this video, taking a bold swing with the music choice to go along with their season theme. luckily, they loved it!

40 years of vineyard theatre | editor

for its 40th anniversary vineyard theatre launched a rebranding campaign and wanted a video to celebrate that and its illustrious history. I pulled together b-roll and interviews (much of which I shot myself) to tell the story of the artistry they fearlessly bring to new york.

the music center’s visions in wonderLAnd | editor

the music center developed this project to connect the los angeles community through the universal emotion of wonder. angelinos were invited to submit short videos that were transformed into a.i. by the music center. i used after effects to animate the key are and tap into the wonder of the project.

gifts from the vineyard | editor | director | camera

for the holiday season, vineyard theatre wanted patrons to keep in mind the many gifts that the company is able to offer new york audiences, artists and our community so we brought together artists like actor david hyde pierce (fraiser), playwright tarell alvin mccraney (moonlight), and student jennifer vasquez to talk about the gifts the vineyard has given them.

august wilson’s seven guitars teaser | director | editor | camera

for the stage production of august wilson’s seven guitars at a noise within theatre, i shot and edited this teaser trailer with desean k. terry (the morning show) and cherish monique duke (black-ish) to bring to the key art for the show to life.

billy & ray behind-the-scenes video | producer | director | editor

this is an example of one of the many behind-the-scenes videos i’ve created for theatre productions in los angeles and new york. this was for billy & ray at vineyard theatre, directed by the incomparable legend of television and film, garry marshall. The play starred mad men’s vincent kartheiser.

vineyard theatre 35th anniversary season teaser | producer | editor

to promote vineyard theatre's 35th anniversary season, i used after effects to put together this season teaser. the footage is all b-roll that i shot for the company, and I was the creative director on the photos of the playwrights for the season, which were shot by hollenderx2.

outside people trailer | producer | director | editor

i created this trailer for the world premiere of zayd dohrn’s outside people at vineyard theatre with li jun li (quantico) and matt dellapina (bull). this was before many theatres were using video trailers to sell their plays, and the new york times ending up interviewing me about the work I did. You can read that here.

the hatmaker’s wife trailer | videographer | editor

This is a trailer I shot and edited for playwrights realm in new york for the world premiere of their play the hatmaker’s wife.

gigantic promotional videos | director | editor

this is part of a fun series of videos I made for the musical gigantic. they are meant to give you a taste of several of the main characters before they set out for camp overton, the no. 3 weight-loss camp in southern pennsylvania, where the musical takes place. you can see the full series here.

playwritegirl | producer | editor | director | one man crew

on a spring morning at the pasadena playhouse, 150 'writegirls', mentors, volunteers and staff took up residence at pasadena playhouse. they workshopped and wrote from 9am to 4pm. this video was both shot and edit by me as a one-man-crew during that time. two hours later that same evening, this video that i completed on site was shown to an audience of over 600 people.

pasadena playhouse board match | producer | editor | director  

this is the first arts mini-flick i did, which i shot and edited for the pasadena playhouse. the company received a $10,000 donation the day the video was released by a donor who was moved by the video.


unscripted television

wendt crazy | producer | editor

this is a reality series i developed, shot, edited and co-produced with my brother. the series was named as an official selection of the new york television festival and was a finalist for a&e network's unscripted development pipeline.

maloof money cup | editor

this is a portion of the maloof money cup skateboarding competition that I edited for broadcast on fox. for this project I collaborated with the producer and a team of editors to determine the story arc and main characters for the piece. to create the story, i mixed audio from several sources including camera audio, body mics, wild audio and announcer feeds to finish and deliver the 1-hour special for network broadcast on an extremely tight schedule.


web series

the digressions | co-director | editor

'the digressions' — named best web series of the year by the online magazine snobby robot — is a web series I shot, edited and co-produced. it began with short 3-5 minute episodes in season 1. in season 2, we pushed ourselves to create longer episodes, and in our final season, season 3, we decided to take it one step further and shoot the season as a feature, which we released in four part on the web. in their review of the series, indiefilter said, "the digressions shows us how far an interesting concept and a tight script can take an indie web series." read the full review. above is the first episode of our final season.


feature films

pure shock value | executive producer | editor

this is the trailer for a feature film I co- excecutive produced and edited called pure shock value by furious films. the film was the centerpiece feature of the hollywood fringe film festival. My editing even got a (little) shoutout in a review by Engine 28, a group of NEA Fellows who were in Los Angeles to cover a series of arts festivals that occured during that time. read the review...