"The most interesting thing happening in storytelling right now isn't the technology — it's the audience. They're ready to go further than we've been willing to take them. We're living through the experientialization of everything — the idea that every interaction, every space, every product is an opportunity for story. The question isn't where story belongs. The question is why we ever thought it had limits."
Eric brings twenty-five years of practice across novels, film, television, theater, and immersive experience to every conversation — which means the conversation tends to go places a standard keynote doesn't reach.
He speaks to college programs and MFA seminars, writers' rooms looking for structural or futurist thinking, industry panels, brand and marketing teams reckoning with the experientialization of their work, and festival audiences who want something more than a career retrospective.
The throughline is always the same question: what does story owe the person on the other side of it, and how do we keep finding new answers?
Where narrative is headed when audiences expect agency, when every surface is a potential screen, and when the line between story and experience keeps moving. A futurist's view from inside the work.
Form isn't decoration — it's the delivery system for everything the story is trying to do emotionally. How nonlinear timelines, fractured narratives, and structural choices become the argument, not just the container.
What novels teach you that screenwriting can't. What theater demands that television refuses. The distinct intelligence of each format — and what a writer gains by refusing to pick just one.
The false choice between accessible and original. How genre scaffolding carries genuine emotional weight — and why the most audacious premises often produce the most personal stories.
From reader to viewer to participant: the arc of audience agency in modern storytelling. How giving audiences genuine choice — in sequence, in space, in experience — changes what it means to make something.
The experientialization of everything — why brands, hospitality, live events, and technology companies are all now in the story business, and what that means for writers who want to work at the frontier.
Speaking inquiries are handled by Jeremy Platt at Untitled Entertainment. For consulting engagements, reach out the same way.