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, DRAMEDY)

Married white-collar criminals are sentenced with time served in waste management.

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SEXUALLY SPEAKING  (SERIAL HOUR TV PILOT, DRAMEDY)
In the spring of 1980, Dr. Ruth Westheimer began the radio show that would make her the most famous sex therapist in the world.

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)
Returning from the failed W-Series, famous driver Rachel Andretti convinces daughter-of-a-legend Courtney Dana to recommit to pursuing their dream of winning the Formula 1 Grand Prix.

 

THREE DAYS IN NIGHTCREEK (FEATURE SCREENPLAY, ACTION WESTERN)
Two vampires and a sheriff serve as arbiters of justice in the town of Nightcreek when their peace is disrupted by the arrival of two strangers; a new priest, and an unpredictable teenage 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 conquer Earth, but they quickly get talked out of it by Earthlings as they learn true, real, accurate facts about humanity. When he learns that alien touch increases human IQ (and could therefore save the dying planet), everyman Dave must partner with alien scientist QU!@#$%ZZI to save both species from total ruin before the aliens abandon Earth. Comp: Galaxy Quest, but if it was parodying Independence Day.

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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.​