President and Executive Producer at Borken Creative Inc.

Producer for digital, interactive, screen content and live events

Innovative storyteller, big-picture strategist, and systems thinker

An agnostic cross-platform writer with an audience development focus

Internationally regarded expert on web series and transmedia storytelling

Grant/Funding writer (interactive/web series) that understands new media funding landscape in Canada

Participant: In the first cohort of the Accessibility Writers’ Lab (Presented by the Canada Media Fund, Telefilm, and Accessible Media Inc., in partnership with ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto and the Miles Nadal JCC.) Fall 2021

Writer STARGAZE: THE PILOT EPISODE (Short Form Digital Series) Borken Creative Inc. 2021/2022

Storyroom Writer for the development of STUDIO KILLERS 404 (TV Series) 2020

Creative Mentor on Hop To It Productions’ SLOPPY JONES (Short Form Digital Series) 2019

SPY WHORES (Digital) 2014

ALL YOUR FATES (Transmedia) 2011/2012

WORK WITH NO PANTS (Alternate Reality Game) 2011

Creative Consultant VEIL NANOSCIENCE for Immersive Fiction (Alternate Reality Game) 2011

A MULTI-PART CASE STUDY #MAFIAOC (A TIKTOK PULP FICTION) & THE GIRL WHO IS ‘DIFFERENT’ (THE TWITTER ‘TEEN MOVIE’): How Tiktok’s ‘duet’ and ‘use this sound’ features are driving emerging forms of participatory storytelling 2020

• PART ONE: THE BIRTH? OF A HASHTAG
• PART TWO: EVERY MAFIA NEEDS A MOB BOSS (OR DOES IT?)
• PART THREE: INTERACTIVITY CHALLENGES THE CINEMATIC FRAME

10 GENIUS TACTICS OF THE LIZZIE BENNET DIARIES CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN TCM Resource Kit 2013

THE ART OF LOST CONVERSATIONS LitUp 2018

THE WAY OUT—A RECOLLECTION OF MY LIFE AS A BISEXUAL JEHOVAH’S WITNESS Medium 2017

ALL YOUR FATES All Chapters for Parts One and Three (Digital Serialized Novel) 2012/2013

[DEL]’S DIARY (Novella) VEIL NANOSCIENCE  (Alternate Reality Game) for Immersive Fiction 2011

MY IMAGINARY BEST KIDS SOUNDS LIKE CANADA CBCRadio1 (Radio) 2006

Editor ALL YOUR FATES Part two (Digital Serialized Novel) 2013

Assistant Editor ROCKET SCIENCE 1.1 2006 (Print)

ON SCREEN CONTENT, MEDIA & TECH

ARE WEB SERIES DEAD (AND DOES ANYBODY CARE?) BorkenCreative.com 2020

GO UNFUCK YOURSELF: MANUAL ON JARGON FOR DIGITAL MARKETERS Medium 2017

GOOGLE OFFICIALLY KNOWS FAR TOO MUCH ABOUT MY VAGINA Maximum Middle Age 2016

PLAYBACK CANADIAN FILM & TV HALL OF FAME: ANDRA SHEFFER Playback Magazine 2014

SPIES LIKE ME: MY RESPONSE TO IARPA’S RFI UAREHERE CarrieCutforth.com blog post often cited in academic works 2014

GUEST POST: TOP 5 WEB SERIES TIPS JonReiss.com 2014

MARKETING A DIGITAL PROJECT SHOULDN’T BE AN AFTERTHOUGHT STREAM Daily 2014

RUN A CAMPAIGN LIKE A HORSERACE (AND WHY YOU SHOULD) New Hive 2014

HOW TO GET MONEY FROM PEOPLE LIKE A MACHIAVELLIAN New Hive 2014

ARE BITCOINS THE NEW POGS? New Hive 2013

ARE WEB SERIES TV ONLINE? Originally Posted on Webseries Canada (formerly the IWCC)’s blog 2013

LEARNING FROM ORSON: UNDERSTANDING “AUDIENCES” IN TRANSMEDIA & WEB SERIES Carriecutforth.com 2013

A CONVERSATION WITH IPF WEB SERIES PRODUCERS PART 1 & Part 2 Web Series Today 2011

ON FEMINISM & QUEER SEXUALITY

FORGIVENESS IS OVERRATED: THE SECOND COMING OF KESHA Medium 2017

IN SEARCH OF: ONE MALE ALLY TO HOLD MY HAND FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PHOTO-OP Medium 2017

THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS STRAIGHT: REFLECTIONS ON A YEAR OUT AS BI Medium 2016

MY ONE MINUTE RAPE STORY The Establishment 2016

OVER 40 WITH ZERO FUCKS TO GIVE Medium 2014

IS RAPE NEVER FUNNY? CarrieCutforth.com 2012

 

ON DISABILITY ACTIVISM FOR CHRONIC & MENTAL ILLNESSES

FOR THOSE WHO’VE BEEN TOLD: ‘IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD’: A LOVE LETTER TO THE LONG-HAULERS, THE ME/CFS SUFFERERS & BEYOND Medium 2022

HOW TO STOP, DROP, AND ROLL IN MENTAL CRISIS The Establishment 2017

HOW TO HELP THE CAUSE WHEN YOU NEED HELP YOURSELF The Establishment 2016 Republished by Everyday Feminism 2017

HOW TO MELT YOUR BATHTUB WITHOUT REALLY TRYING Maximum Middle Age 2016

 

ON ARTS & CULTURE

#ELBOWGATE IS AWFUL; YOU ARE ALL AWFUL Medium 2016

2014: A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM THE FUTURE New Hive 2014

SUBVERTING THE CANADIAN NATIONAL ARTEFACTS Line Break (Print) 2009

Arts Columnist for blogTO.COM 2006/2007

WHERE IT’S AT: MAPPING TORONTO’S CREATIVE CLUSTERS Rocket Science (Print) 2008

INTERVIEW WITH VID INGELEVICS Rocket Science (Print) 2008

FEMINISM 101: WHAT IT’S LIKE BEING TREATED DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE YOU’RE A WOMAN Grok Nation 2017

FEMINISM 101: WHAT’S DATING AS A FEMINIST ACTUALLY LIKE Grok Nation 2017

ASK A RAGING FEMINIST: WHAT’S YOUR THEME SONG? She Knows 2015

SPEAKING APPEARANCES & PRESENTATIONS

MAINSTREAMING MARGINALIZED VOICES for Storyworld at Catalyst Festival Duluth, Minnesota 2019

CENTERING VOICES FROM THE MARGINS & MAINSTREAMING UNDERSERVED AUDIENCES Storyworld 3.0 L.A. 2018

INTERACT: TV ON THE WEB (Special Speaker) Interactive Ontario 2014

GAME-CHANGERS: NEW VENTURES IN DISTRIBUTION Ontario Writer’s Conference Ajax, Ontario 2014

Speaker at Masters of Digital Media, Centre of Digital Media, University of BC on the topic Transmedia in Toronto 2012

WELCOME Second Global Transmedia Meetup of Meetups at Storyworld Los Angeles 2012

READ AT OWN RISK: EMERGENT NARRATIVE FORMS & WATTPAD Transmedia 101 2012

THE KARADA presented at Storyworld‘s Inproduction Showcase San Francisco 2011

 

GUEST LECTURER

PARTICIPATORY FICTION for Experimental/Interactive creative writing classes OCADU 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018 & 2019

TRANSMEDIA for Advanced Television Writing & Transmedia class York University 2013

EXPANDING NARRATIVE: TRANSMEDIA/ARGS for Experimental Writing class OCADU 2010

METAPHOR for Creative Writing One class OCADU 2010

FROM CONCEPT TO TEAR DOWN for Professional Practice OCAD 2009

URBAN ART & ADVERTISING, BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY for OCAD 2008

 

SPECIAL GUEST/GUEST SPEAKER

Launch Announcement Party of OCADU’s Creative Writing BFA, DFI Lounge, OCADU 2017

TranVergence Summit’s Storyhackathon Los Angeles 2013

Town Hall Meeting, Transmedia LA Los Angeles 2013

Guidestone’s Meetup 2012

 

PANELIST

DIGITAL MARKETING: A CAMPAIGN BEYOND A POST Ontario Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Toronto 2018

WE’RE BROADS, THEY’RE CHICKS, LET’S MAKE CHANGE! (Webinar) 2015

DRIVE PEOPLE TO YOUR WEBSERIES (Webinar) by Conducttr  2015

WEB SERIES IP Program Centennial College 2014

THE BUSINESS OF TRANSMEDIA CANADA Transmedia LA Los Angeles 2013

THE BIG TALK OCADU 2012

THE ROLE OF THE ART CRITIC ArtSPEAK Series Gallery 1313 2007

 

MODERATOR

Q&A sessions for TO WebFest 2017 for the following screenings:

• • HOPE & STRUGGLE
  • PIQUED MY INTEREST
  • UNIQUE & UNUSUAL

SO YOU WANT TO CROWDFUND TO Webfest 2014

BUILDING A BUSINESS MODEL FOR WEB SERIES Playback Summit 2014

CANUCK WEBSERIES SHOWCASE Merging Media 2013 Vancouver 2013

X-COLLABORATION + OTHER CO-CREATIVE SYNERGIES Merging Media 2012 Vancouver 2012

FROM PLAYER TO PUPPET MASTER ARGFest 2012

 

INVITED HOST/FACILITATOR

SCREENING OF BEAT GIRL PREMIER Merging Media 2013 Vancouver 2013

NOT SO FRIENDLY FAMILY HOUR (Co-Host) Social Media Week with the IWCC 2013

STORY THIS! (Story/Performance Workshop Facilitator) DIY Days RYERSON University 2013

Brandon Hunter, Lindsay. PLAYING REAL: MIMESIS, MEDIA, AND MISCHIEF (Northwestern University Press) Feb 15 2021

Figueiredo, Manoela. A ATUAÇÃO CRÍTICA DA TRADUÇÃO EM THE LIZZIE BENNET DIARIES: DESLOCAMENTOS DE ORGULHO E PRECONCEITO PARA A CONTEMPORANEIDADE VIRTUAL (Programa de Pós Graduação em Literatura e Cultura) Brazil Jun 13 2016

Tongco, Tricia. 4 WAYS YOU CAN BE RAPED AFTER YOU’VE CONSENTED TO SEX ATTN May 16 2016

Brandon Hunter, Lindsay. THIS IS NOT A THREAT: CONSPIRACY FOR GOOD International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (Vol. 11, Iss. 2) 2015

Gordon, Ruthanna. ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES FOR BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (ETC Press) Feb 27 2015

Merlo, Seth. NARRATIVE, STORY, INTERSUBJECTIVITY: FORMULATING A CONTINUUM FOR EXAMINING TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING (Murdoch University) 2014 pg 28

Haldenby, Trevor, BRINGING THE FUTURE TO LIFE Sep 2013 pg 58-60

O’ Flynn, Siobhan. CASE STUDY: DESIGNING FOR ATTENTION: TRANSMEDIA’S NEW NARRATIVE PRACTICES PART 2 (Slideshare) Jun 2013

Geiger, Kristin. BROAD CITY VS. GIRLS: EIN VERGLEICH VON WEB- UND TV-SERIEN Web Video Cultures Jun 7 2014

Acknowledged for assistance in conceptualizing successful grant proposal for Nikki Reimer’s digital poetry project GRIEFWAVE

Thanks from One Muse/James Carter for digital project NY_HEART STORIES: LES (PART ONE)

Dedicated Thanks in SO I MIGHT BE A VAMPIRE a novel by Rodney V. Smith

PUSSYCAT LOUNGE Hamilton  2017

BIPHORIA HAMILTON: VOICES OF RESISTANCE FESTIVAL Hamilton 2017

PAINTING WITH WORDS OCADU 2012

PASSIONATE WOMEN AND WORDS Poetry Village, The Junction Arts Festival 2010

OCAD WRITERS Poetry Village, The Junction Arts Festival  2010

I SAW I WAS OCADU 2010

HEAR MY WORDS, FEEL MY WORDS, MARK MY WORDS Ellington’s Music Café 2010

READING THROUGH OCADU 2010

THROUGH THE WRITING CLASS The Trane Studio 2009

SPOKES & WORDS OCADU 2009

STUNT DOUBLES Ellington’s Music Café 2008

VOICES, VERSIONS, AND VISIONS OCADU 2007

Bachelors of Fine Arts Criticism and Curatorial Practice OCADU 2008

Thesis Lactivision (Digital Project)

Minors in both English and Digital & Media Studies OCADU 2009

OCAD AWARDS

Runner-Up in 401 Richmond Prize 2008

CRCP Faculty Award 2008

George A. Reid Award 2007

Volunteer Certificate of Recognition 2007

Dr. Eugene A. Poggetto Award 2006

Provincial Chapter of Ontario IODE Tuition Award 2005

OCAD Student Forum 2006

SERVICE TO THE OCAD COMMUNITY

Graduation Blender 2008

The OCAD Mobile Lab Portage Design Charrette 2007

Hiring Committee for Assistant Dean of Liberal Studies 2007

Juror Gallery 76 Award  2007

Hyperspace Graduation Committee 2007

Academic Standards Policy Committee 2007

OCAD Student Forum 2006