Screenplays and Teleplays

12 HOURS OF CHRISTMAS (Christmas Romance)

Matty, a consultant who gave up on her dream of being a doctor, is on her way to visit family on Christmas Eve when a snowstorm keeps her stuck in the airport. There she meets Zack, a jingle writer who gave up on his own dream of being a performing musician. Over the next 12 hours, as Matty and Zack fall in love, they realize the best dreams are still worth reaching for.

Quarterfinalist, CineStory Screenplay Competition

TONIGHT THE MOON (Christmas Fantasy Romance)

Film restorer Shan concocts a formula that magically time-travels 1930s movie idol Jean-Paul to the present. When Shan, not believing Jean-Paul is real, rejects him for another man, Jean-Paul must help Shan believe that true love and the magic of Christmas transcend all time.

Second Round, Austin Film Festival Competition

Quarterfinalist, CineStory Screenplay Competition

Quarterfinalist, PAGE International Competition

MAZE (Grounded Sci-Fi Thriller)

In an apocalyptic future, a young nurse turned assassin must kill three presidential candidates or her child will be taken by the shadow organization that hired her. LA FEMME NIKITA meets THE TERMINATOR.

Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowships Competition

Second Round, Austin Film Festival Competition

Semifinalist, CineStory Screenplay Competition

Quarterfinalist, PAGE International Screenplay Competition

STONE’S THROW (Coming of Age Fantasy Drama)

Teen Pauley MacKenzie enlists the help of an eerie comic-book hero he draws in order to cope with his epilepsy, the bully at school, and his overprotective mother. When a troubled young widow moves in next door, he must become a real hero to rescue her and deal with the issues of growing up.

Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowships Competition

Second Round, Austin Film Festival Competition

1st Place Winner, Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum

3rd Place Winner, WA State Screenplay Competition

Options: PEACE, 2012; Careyes Entertainment, 2005

ALICE WATSON, PARANORMALIST: PILOT (Supernatural Drama TV Series)

In Victorian London, Alice Watson, a spiritualist, medium, and delver in the paranormal, solves ghostly crimes using her knowledge and skills in the occult, giving occasional unsolicited help to her older brother Dr. Watson and one Sherlock Holmes.

Finalist, CineStory TV Fellowship Competition

Second Round, Austin Film Festival Competition

THE ARTIFICIALS: PILOT (Sci-Fi Drama TV Series)

In an oppressive near future where equality and freedom of expression could mean a death sentence, an idealistic teenage human seeks the help of two teenage androids to find his outlaw father and restart a revolution. BLADERUNNER meets 1984.

2nd Place Winner, CineStory TV Fellowship Competition

Second Round, Austin Film Festival Competition

Quarterfinalist, PAGE International Competition

A HELLUVA THING (Dark Romantic Comedy Fantasy)

A hit man who dies and goes to Hell makes a deal with the devil to do one last hit on Earth, but the killer’s new body is that of a nice guy, and he develops a conscience and falls in love with the intended target. HEAVEN CAN WAIT meets BEETLEJUICE.

Top 10%, Nicholl Fellowships Competition

Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival Competition

LAST CHANCE, WYOMING (Western Romantic Adventure)

A gutsy female journalist in the 1880s ventures from New York to the Wild West seeking front page stories, falls in love with two men, starts running the town newspaper, and must foil a war between outlaws and dinosaur fossil hunters.

Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowships Competition

Finalist, Sundance Screenwriters Lab

1st Place Winner, Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum

2nd Place Winner, Pacific NW Writers Conference