Screenwriting for Film & TV
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*Academy Nicholl Fellowship and Austin Film Festival semifinalist screenplay, 2018
Feature – Horror Comedy
Logline: An immature, centuries-old vampire enjoying the fast life in New York must return to his tiny Irish hometown when a vampire hunter kills his girlfriend and benefactor, leaving him dead broke.
Length: 110 pages
*Scriptapalooza semifinalist screenplay, 2020
Feature – Historical Drama/Comedy
Based on the acclaimed novel The Wet Nurse’s Tale by Erica Eisdorfer.
Logline: When her baby is kidnapped by a powerful London family, a wily housemaid will do anything to rescue him, including lying, scheming, and smashing the hell out of the patriarchy.
Length: 96 pages
*Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist screenplay, 2020
Feature – Thriller/Art-house Action
Logline: A No Country for Old Men-style thriller set in 1970s L.A. about an African American Vietnam veteran who becomes a hitman, has a hit go wrong, then is targeted by both the LAPD and by the drug lord who originally hired him.
Length: 105 pages
Spec – Atlanta TV Series, FX Networks
Logline: On his first European tour, Paper Boi opens for an aging death metal band in Italy. Next thing you know he, Earn, and Darius are wrapped up in a serial killer murder investigation. Damn.
Length: 30 Pages
College Town
Comedy Pilot – 30-min single camera comedy
Logline: A Spaced-style comedy set in an ultra-liberal American college town, about two town newcomers (a snooty Brooklyn academic and a country bumpkin Irish farmer) who must hide their unlikely attraction to one another to secure rooms in the coolest house in town.
Length: 30 pages
Fergus – TV Pilot
*PAGE International Screenplay Competition semifinalist script, 2020
Comedy Pilot – 30-min single camera comedy
Logline: A hard-partying, immature vampire is forced to return home to rural Ireland, where he must learn the true meaning of family… as long as that family, or a host of other magical creatures, don’t kill him first. Based on the original feature screenplay by Jeremy Hawkins.
Length: 30 pages
Christmas Short – Comedy
Logline: A saucy Christmas elf going through an existential crisis is tasked with helping a down-on-his-luck London businessman discover the true meaning of Christmas. The elf’s name, you guessed it, is Hobo.
Length: 15 Pages
