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Writing
Plays - Screen
Plays - Treatments - Songs
- Poetry
Plays
| Hugging
the Shoulder |
90 minutes. Drama.
cast: 2m. 1f. 1m/f.
set: flexible. |
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A young man kidnaps his big brother, stuffs him into a van and drives
him cross-country in an attempt to get him off heroin. LINK |
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| Noah's Arkansas |
120 minutes. Drama.
cast: 4m. 2f. 1f voice.
set: Int. with inset.
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A trailer home in Arkansas sees a father, son, and grandson trying to glue their broken family back together with no clear blueprint on how the pieces are supposed to fit. |
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| In
Sheep's Clothing |
25 minutes. Suspense.
cast: 3m.
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3 men
huddle around a campfire on a cold night. They tell scary
stories to pass the time. The scariest story though, is
the one that’s happening right now. LINK |
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Plays for the
Sunni Triangle |
30 minutes. A political triptych.
cast: 5m. 2f. flexible
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An Army of Fun - a dramatic play in verse.
My Big Fat American Jihad - a absurd insurgency.
Just Your Average G.I. Joe - one soldier's take on yellow ribbons. LINK |
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The
First Base Coach |
25 minutes. Comedy.
cast: 1m. 1f.
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9 yr-old Ben meets an older woman (11) for a date at the baseball field. He knows he wants to get her to go to first base, but if only he knew what the heck that meant. Do you remember your first time on first? |
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| Vatican Vince |
10 minutes. Comedy.
cast: 3m. 3f. |
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A liturgical layer cake starring a fed-up Priest, a Sunday Schoolmarm and a Sock Puppet sent to
teach us the evils of Catholicism. |
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| THEFT |
10 minutes. Drama.
cast: 1m. 1f. + 1m ext. 1f ext. |
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When Dr. Featherstone reports a mugging to the police, he’s ushered into a room wherein lies
everything that’s ever been stolen from him. LINK |
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| Copper Green |
10 minutes. Drama.
cast: 2m. 1f. 1m/f (a little boy) |
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On vacation in New York City, a mid-west family gets a load of lady liberty on the Staten Island
Ferry. |
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| The Hedge |
10 minutes. Comedy.
cast: 2f. |
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Two celebrity hunters enjoy their delusional pastime on the lawn of a Hollywood star. |
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| But I Am A Pigeon |
10 minutes. Drama.
cast: 1m. 2f. |
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20-something dramatic masturbation on fear, love, and Shakespeare. |
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| Like
the Good Ol' Days |
10 minutes. Drama.
cast: 2m. 2f. |
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While waiting for Dad to be discharged from the
hospital, Mom and Amy finally address what really matters. |
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Screen
Plays
| Hugging
the Shoulder |
Full
length, Drama. |
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Jeremy,
an average Southern guy, kidnaps his big brother and drives
him cross-country in a van to get him off heroin. (Adapted
from the original play by the same title.) |
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| Love
Song |
Full
Length, Romantic Comedy |
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After
struggling for years to make it big, Kevin has written
a smash hit song. Everything is looking up for him and
his band until they get sued for copyright infringement.
Larissa claims that she wrote the hit single. Two strangers
that live on opposite sides of the country— is it
possible that they’ve both written the same love
song? That’s for a judge to decide. |
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| Gatorman |
33
minutes, Suspense (Produced 2003) |
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When
a young boy’s mother is murdered he’s sent
to live with his father and grandfather in the deep swamp.
There he is told of the Gatorman, a monster that eats
children who try to run-away. |
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| Big
John |
20
minutes, Western |
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The
Big J Ranch is under attack. The bank is threatening to
foreclose, and the town wants to sell to the railroad.
The problem is Big John doesn't legally own it anymore.
Since his brother died in the War Between the States,
the deed to the ranch is in the name of Big John’s
nephew, little Arthur. Now who-ever has the kid owns the
farm. It’s a western range war based on William
Shakespeare’s King John. |
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| OTB |
10
minutes, Character Drama |
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Some
men love the track. They love the horses, the fresh air,
and they love the thrill of the long shot. Other men only
play the odds and refuse to even leave the neighborhood.
These men go to OBT. |
Treatments
| Mack
is Back in Town |
Action/Crime
Drama |
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A
modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Macky
returns to the city of his birth and goes back to his
old strong-arming job, but on his rout he meets a crazy
fortune teller. She tells him that he will soon be the
new Don— the head of his whole mafia family. All
he has to do is eliminate a few obstacles. |
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| The
Method |
Horror/Suspense |
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The
crazy thing about being an actor is that to be an actor
you have to be a little bit crazy. In one of the most
prestigious theatre schools in the country, things are
about to get even weirder than usual. When the students
revolt against their acting professor things turn deadly.
Think Phantom of the Opera meets Fame. |
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| Safe
House Out House |
Comedy |
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A self-centered
New York wise-guy turns states evidence against his mob
family. The witness relocation program places him in the
middle of the Everglades and gets him a job cleaning air-boats.
Now, in order to survive, this good-hearted gweedo must
overcome his prejudices of the swamp-folk and learn the
true meaning of the word “family”, because
when the sh-- hits the air-boat prop, this stool pigeon’s
loyalty is put to the ultimate test. |
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| Family
Land |
Comedy |
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Tired
of his mafia life, the high-up mob Boss fakes his own
death and hides out where a fast talking New-Yorker can
just blend-in to the crowd: Florida. It doesn't
take the Boss long to see that, in the Sunshine State,
the money is in tourist attractions. The boss learns what
it’s like to be the little guy as he struggles to
create his amusement park from the ground up. Welcome
to the worlds first Mafioso amusement park, “Family
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Songs
I have approximately
a dozen finished songs that I sing and play on my acoustic
guitar. They range in style from grunge to country but hang
out mostly in the folk music section.
Poetry
| Two
Chap-Books |
The
War of Things - Political Poetry |
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Ode
to Letting Go - Warning: Love Poetry |
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