PRODUCED
CROSSWORD (SHORT, SCI-FI COMEDY)
Filling out the Sunday crossword, Sean and Anne begin to see that the clues are about their lives.

STAYDREAM (WEB SERIES, DRAMA, STAFF WRITER)
Lovable young film student Nadia Klempner has one very quirky habit: she sees her life through the lens of the classic films her family loves so much. I wrote Episode 4: linked here.


IN PRODUCTION

GRAVE BUSINESS (SHORT, SEX COMEDY)

A couple enters a graveyard on Halloween, hoping to fulfill a sex fantasy.​​

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THE BABY SHOWER (SHORT, DRAMEDY)
Three friends work to incorporate the changes of motherhood into their relationships.

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READY FOR PRODUCTION
GARBAGE PEOPLE (EPISODIC HALF-HOUR TV PILOT, WORKPLACE DRAMEDY)
When married white-collar criminals are sentenced to time served in waste management; while surfing the suburban streets on the garbage truck, they must shelve their egos to connect with their wholehearted coworkers… or go prison. Parks n' Rec meets Schitt's Creek.

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SEXUALLY SPEAKING  (SERIAL HOUR TV PILOT, DRAMEDY)

Moving from the disco era to the Reagan administration in the spring of 1980, Dr. Ruth Westheimer is recruited by an intrepid public radio producer to launch the controversial radio show that would make her the most famous sex therapist in the world, transforming the conversation about sex in America. Julia meets Sex Education.

What contest judges say about Sexually Speaking

DELTA (SERIAL HOUR TV PILOT, DRAMEDY)
Delta sorority tries to recover its membership after being put on probation in the wake of the rape of one of its sisters.

BELLADONNA (SERIAL HOUR TV PILOT, DRAMEDY)
In 1750, sisters Mary and Bella Roberts are accidental stowaways on a pirate ship, which sets them on a path toward a life of crime. Professional scene reading here

What contest judges say about Belladonna

RAVENOUS (FEATURE SCREENPLAY, HORROR THRILLER)
Horror prop creator Alison Dawkins returns to her childhood home to find that her ailing father has developed sinister beliefs.

What contest judges say about Ravenous

SPEEDWAY (SERIAL HOUR TV PILOT, DRAMA)In the male-dominated world of IndyCar racing, a newly-unemployed famous driver and unyielding-yet-broke track owner conspire to gather sponsorships and climb the ranks of IndyCar, by engineering a rivalry between their all-female team and an untrustworthy all-male team. GLOW meets F1.

 

THREE DAYS IN NIGHTCREEK (FEATURE SCREENPLAY, ACTION WESTERN)

In a small town where two vampires live under an uneasy truce with the local sheriff, the arrival of a conservative priest forces them to choose between fleeing the only home they’ve known or fighting to take control of it. The reluctant hero of Tombstone meets the moral ambiguity of Interview with a Vampire.

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FIFTY SHADES (FEATURE SCREENPLAY, DRAMEDY)

When voracious reader E.L. James is inspired to write fan fiction after reading a hit series, her unknown novelist husband buys her a desk to do just that. What follows is the success of the bestselling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. 

 

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WORK IN PROGRESS
ANATOMY SUBSTITUTE (FEATURE SCREENPLAY, COMEDY)

Having left the biz behind, former porn star Layla Tucker substitutes at Nordon High School, only to be assigned to teach the woefully outdated sex education curriculum. Comp: School of Rock meets Sex Education

 

LADY DEATH (FEATURE SCREENPLAY, TRUE STORY WAR THRILLER)

The true story of WWII Soviet Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, known as “Lady Death of the Red Army”, the most successful sniper in history with 309 Nazi kills. After training as a marksman, Lyudmila enrolls in the army where she struggles to find patience with her comrades’ mediocrity, lack of urgency, and unwillingness to do what needs to be done.

 

SPACE INVADERS FROM SPACE (FEATURE, SCI FI COMEDY)

A crew of alien invaders comes to rescue Earth, but they quickly get talked out of it by Earthlings as they learn true, real, accurate facts about humanity. When he learns that the aliens can help us be better, everyman anthropologist Dave must partner with alien scientist QU!@#$%ZZI to convince them of humanity’s worth. Galaxy Quest meets Idiocracy.

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THE VENGEFUL DAUGHTER OF THE WITCH (FEATURE, PERIOD THRILLER)

When her healer mother is lynched in their medieval German town, teenage Lilith seeks out an exiled crone to teach her real magic, wreak vengeance, and take control of the town, recruiting other teen girls for her uprising.​

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HEATHENS (FEATURE SCREENPLAY, HISTORICAL DRAMA)

In 1428 Europe, Paul defends poor, uneducated, unknown Helga in the first recorded witch trial. When he can’t save her, he’s then called upon to defend beautiful, famous, calculating Joan of Arc against charges of heresy and witchcraft. Comp: The Last Duel.

 

ON DECK
ESCAPE FROM THE PYRAMID OF GIZA (FEATURE SCREENPLAY, THRILLER)

When the Queen of Egypt is mistaken for her maid, she's buried alive in the Pyramid of Giza, and must escape the pyramid's puzzles before her son is found by her enemies.

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THE WHISTLE IN THE WOODS (FEATURE, HORROR/THRILLER)

After a painful breakup, independent young Lisa renovates a fixer-upper in remote Appalachia only to be hunted by an ancient force in the woods. Based on Appalachian folklore that says that responding to sounds in the woods at night will lead to spirits following you home.

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LA MAUPIN (EPISODIC ONE-HOUR TELEVISION PILOT, HISTORICAL FICTION)
Follows the life of romantic chaos machine Julie D’Aubigny, "La Maupin," a bisexual swashbuckling singer-actor lothario (lotharia?) known for wooing her conquests by stealing bodies of dead nuns and setting rooms on fire to escape, wounding enemies and nursing them back to health (then seducing them), and dueling three men at once. 

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​RESURRECTION MEN (FEATURE SCREENPLAY, TRUE CRIME THRILLER)

Broke and shunned by the scientific community, body snatchers William Burke and William Hare scrounge for hard-to-come-by corpses to provide to their wealthy colleague Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures. When a lodger in their house dies, William and William embark on a homicidal rampage driven by their desperate poverty.​