- Created, wrote and directed a 10-episode puppet series, directing multiple puppeteers on a practical build
- Secured production financing from Nouns DAO, a decentralized funder, to design and build two puppets and deliver 10 episodes
- Oversaw puppet design and fabrication with Paul Andrejco's Puppet Heap
CV
Showrunner, writer and director with 10+ years leading international series production across live action, animation, puppetry and games. Fluent Korean. BE Computer Science, summa cum laude. US and Canadian citizen, based in New York and Toronto.
chris@monsterhunterforhire.com · chrismeetworld.com · linkedin.com/in/chris-martin-1b4a295a
Series
- Created the series and directed 10 episodes of CG animation across a three-country production pipeline
- Directed a voice cast including Dave Fennoy, Chris Niosi and Leigh Joel-Scott
- Ran story and design review with an animation studio working in three languages and multiple time zones
- Ran a writers' room and led a 100+ person crew in multiple languages
- Directed all 10 episodes and supervised post through delivery to seven distributors
- Cast and directed Liv Hewson, Daniel Dae Kim, Ha Jiwon, Justin Chon and Brett Gray
- Co-created and ran the series that won Most Popular Foreign Drama of the Year at the Seoul Drama Awards
- Took a series from idea to delivery as a first-time showrunner
- Analyzed in four peer-reviewed media studies articles in Korea and the US (2017–2022), including International Communication Gazette
Experience
- Created and wrote G.O.R.G.O.N., an original half-hour action-comedy series pitched as James Bond meets Arrested Development. Pilot script and series deck complete, including a full season-one arc
- Developing Fee-Fi-Fo-F@$%, an original body-horror comedy feature about the anxiety of becoming a first-time dad (The Fly meets Big Daddy)
- Broke story and characters for Until Dawn 2 in the writers' room, working inside an established franchise and canon
- Built the story world and wrote 500+ pages of script for an open-world MMORPG
- Ran operations and creative across two countries for eight years; hired and managed a team of four alongside a co-founder
- Produced both seasons of Dramaworld in-house
- Built and ran the development slate, packaging and pitching original series to US and Korean buyers
Teaching
Education
Skills
Showrunning · Series development · Writers' room leadership · Episodic directing · Puppetry · Animation · Franchise and IP development · Script development · International co-production · Post supervision
Generative AI for development, previs, image generation, mockups, music and voice performance · Onchain funding and DAO governance · Ethereum and NFT releases
English (native) · Korean (fluent) · US and Canadian citizen