SUGAR LAND (TV pilot) One-hour Southern fried TV drama based on the award winning novel The series: 1924. Rural Texas. After Miss Dara’s forbidden, queer love is discovered, she is forced to work in a savage men's prison where she meets the soon-to-be-famous blue singer, Lead Belly, who sings his way to freedom (true story!) and inspires her to break free of her prisons—any way she can. Based on the award winning, southern novel. In lingo, SUGAR LAND - which went through the Sundance "Mapping the Series" Co//ab - would BBQ with Fried Green Tomatoes and Shawshank Redemption. The Bible is ready and the short film showcased at the American Pavilion at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, LA Intl Shorts, OUT Atlanta, AGLIFF, DC Shorts, and others. Email me! |
In addition to Finalists laurels:
2023 Semi-finalist Stowe Labs Second Rounder in PAGE Awards 2023 Semi-finalist LA Intl Screenplay Awards Quarter-finalist ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2022 Quarter-finalist Filmmatic - Inroads Fellowship Season 5 Semi-finalist Flickers' Rhode Island 2022 Intl Film Festival Semi-finalist 2022 Vail Script Contest Quarter-finalist The Great American Script Quarter-finalist in Showcase Semi-finalist Writers' Lab 2023 Semi-finalist Scriptation 2023 |
CAROUSEL (TV pilot: "Dipso Maniac") One hour, surreal TV thriller
___WINNER 2023 PORTLAND SCREENWRITER'S AWARDS (out of 1,000+) Yellow Jackets meets Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. Pilot: The souls of two star-crossed lovers are trapped together in different lives during different periods of time until one of them, DIPSO MANIAC, can gain the confidence to break the pattern. Series: CAROUSEL opens on a charming yet a volatile boozehound, Dipso Maniac, who must decide whether to forgive or avenge his own death. And when the mysterious, non-binary Bartender turns out to be his Case Worker with secrets of their own (many they don't even know), things get really bizarre. |
GRENADINE KISSES AT MIDNIGHT (story collection)
GRENADINE KISSES... is a collection of dark, tender stories that reads like the love child of Aimee Bender and Rikki Durconet. Historical figures often play into the stories, like the French revolutionary Guy Debord who finds a dead bunny in his wall. The collection focuses on the many definitions of 'connection' - some bizarre, some deranged, and some deeply moving. In one story a man falls in love with the picture of a fetus. In another, a girl understands the up side of having a third leg. In another, frogs are disappearing... Most of the stories have been previously published in places like NAR, Folio, The Portland Review, Pif, and 10,000 Pounds of Black Ink and nominated for awards. |
Two other stories ready for adaptation:
“Racing Josephine” published in 10,000 Pounds of Black Ink (and also in print only with the Buckman Journal) "Fetus" published on F(r)iction see full publications... |