Features
The Janus (grounded sci fi)
During a one-way mission to explore a habitable planet a scientist begins to suspect she didn’t start this trip alone, and must rely on the ship’s overprotective AI for answers.
Exobiologist Dr. Ruth Patel has an uneasy relationship with emotion. Rational thought is her guide because it’s clean. Emotions are messy. But now, alone at the edge of the galaxy, Ruth struggles to find meaning as she wrestles hallucinations and paranoia, and a past she thought she left behind.
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Zero Fs (caper comedy)
When a by-the-book retiree and his friends are scammed out of their life savings, they must con the con artists to get their money back.
Their dreams of a rosy retirement gone, these retirees have ZERO Fs left to give. They have to get their money back. To do it they team up with an old ex-con adversary… then it’s experience versus youth as they try to con the con artists.
Mother (family dramedy)
Easter weekend falls apart when the black sheep comes home, and her difficult, dying mother demands she do something she’s long fantasized — kill her.
MOTHER is a drama which reveals scrappy family relationships with dark humor, in a story about reconnecting and letting go.
This script was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarter-finalist.
Television
Donor TV (1 hour, dark dramedy)
A blackballed TV producer tries to revive her career with a new reality show where ten desperate contestants compete to win an organ transplant.
Passing snap judgements on our fellow humans has become sport and on Donor TV the contestants battle for a kidney. But who really deserves it? Should it be the most popular? The most tragic? The person who rallies the most votes? The youngest, cutest, most clever? Most devious?
Producer Petra Cole’s story forms the spine of the show as she struggles to steer the crazy ship she’s taken on, her lifeline from four years of industry jail. What got her there? She’d love to know. But she can’t afford to screw up.
Donor TV throws desperate characters into a high stakes cauldron and asks: how far will you go?
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Abilities (1 hour, sci-fi dramedy)
When two young women with disabilities suddenly develop unique super-human gifts they keep this crazy fact a secret while they figure out what happened and how to monetize it.
What would you do if you suddenly discovered you had superhuman powers? Join a ready-made group of crime fighters? Battle a super-villain? Save a baby? That only happens in the movies. There really is no wronged-by-the-world, evil-doer threatening to take over the world. You’d be on your own, trying to figure it out. Who would you tell? How would they react? What might they want from you? And what if you don’t even want these damned abilities?
This one-hour, comedy-drama follows two young women struggling with just those questions.
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