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SCREENWRITER


FEATURE


People Person (comedy)


Unable to charm his way out of his latest screw up, a gregarious playboy undergoes a newly invented “personality transplant” to salvage the life that he’s wrecked, only to realize the person he needs to reconcile with most is himself.


Source Material (comedy)


Carol, the devoted mother of a global superstar pop singer, has her life upended when her daughter’s revelatory memoir turns her childhood trauma into a #1 bestseller—only, none of it’s true. Now, “America’s Mom” must confront the viral story to save their private relationship from a public performance.


Mother/Daughter (comedy)


A precocious teenager’s ticket to the Ivy League schools is locked inside her estranged grandmother’s will. To claim it, she’ll need to get through the funeral with her emotionally stunted mom who’d rather torch the inheritance and what’s left of her family than watch her daughter leave.


1,000 Years of Joy (drama)

An uninspired artist in 2008, Detroit struggles with infertility when he meets a mysterious stranger claiming to have known him in a past life. In order to salvage his life and vitality the artist is convinced he must steal a masterpiece he is said to have painted more than a century ago.


Coyote (comedy)

Broke and desperate to prove himself, a struggling counter-culture cartoonist "sells out" in Reagan-era New York, making propaganda for the CIA until he learns the cost of his newfound success.



TELEVISION


NOISE! (half-hour comedy)

The love-addicted frontman of a nobody noise band fights to keep his eccentric bandmates, spiraling imagination, and the universe at large from ruining his DIY-tour. Because going home isn’t just failure–it’s literally and cosmically fatal.


The Dogs of War 
(hour-long historical dark comedy)

In the early 1980s, a closeted gay con man with a few dark secrets convinces a group of international miscreants to join him on a foolhardy quest to enrich themselves by overthrowing a tropical paradise. Based on a true story.


SCREENWRITER


FEATURE


People Person (comedy)


Unable to charm his way out of his latest screw up, a gregarious playboy undergoes a newly invented “personality transplant” to salvage the life that he’s wrecked, only to realize the person he needs to reconcile with most is himself.


Source Material (comedy)


Carol, the devoted mother of a global superstar pop singer, has her life upended when her daughter’s revelatory memoir turns her childhood trauma into a #1 bestseller—only, none of it’s true. Now, “America’s Mom” must confront the viral story to save their private relationship from a public performance.


Mother/Daughter (comedy)


A precocious teenager’s ticket to the Ivy League schools is locked inside her estranged grandmother’s will. To claim it, she’ll need to get through the funeral with her emotionally stunted mom who’d rather torch the inheritance and what’s left of her family than watch her daughter leave.


1,000 Years of Joy (drama)

An uninspired artist in 2008, Detroit struggles with infertility when he meets a mysterious stranger claiming to have known him in a past life. In order to salvage his life and vitality the artist is convinced he must steal a masterpiece he is said to have painted more than a century ago.


Coyote (comedy)

Broke and desperate to prove himself, a struggling counter-culture cartoonist "sells out" in Reagan-era New York, making propaganda for the CIA until he learns the cost of his newfound success.



TELEVISION


NOISE! (half-hour comedy)

The love-addicted frontman of a nobody noise band fights to keep his eccentric bandmates, spiraling imagination, and the universe at large from ruining his DIY-tour. Because going home isn’t just failure–it’s literally and cosmically fatal.


The Dogs of War 
(hour-long historical dark comedy)

In the early 1980s, a closeted gay con man with a few dark secrets convinces a group of international miscreants to join him on a foolhardy quest to enrich themselves by overthrowing a tropical paradise. Based on a true story.