Scripts & Screenplays

Almost Home

When the dysfunctional Delaney family is forced to leave California in the wake of financial and personal upheaval, an eight-year-old girl comes of age one state line at a time—learning that no matter how far you run, you can’t outrun yourself. Or creditors.

Based on mostly true events

1/2 Hour TV, Comedy

1999, December

Five fucked up women working for a local newspaper grapple with the digitization of the workplace, equal rights rioting, changes in management, suicidal husbands, verging on thirty, and -- of course -- Y2K. What the hell is going on and is anybody meeting deadline?!

Full-length play, Thriller + Comedy

No Man’s Land

In 1914 Cleveland, Ohio, a tycoon in American-manufactured firearms is (finally) dying, and his family is back in town to claim their hefty inheritance. There is no will, however, and the delinquent O'Boyles do not discuss family matters with outsiders, so the multi-million dollar international estate must be divided “off the record”.

1/2 hour TV, Historical + Dark Comedy

Ms. Trudy

In 1989 Sugarland, Texas, a cutthroat cheer mom is driven to murder her next door nemesis after her daughter narrowly misses out on a spot on the junior high-school's cheerleading squad.

Feature, Crime + Comedy

Last Resort

Two underpaid activity leaders scramble through life, death, and terrible food at a Western New York nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Co-written with Amanda Murphy

1/2 hour TV, Comedy

Buck Up

A former bassoon prodigy and disgraced brother of a prominent Seneca councilman becomes a history teacher at a once-prestigious private school that is now, in the glorious not-at-all doomed year of 2001, one bad test score away from losing accreditation.

1/2 hour TV, Dark Comedy

Black Velvet Corridor

Death is terrified of life, so she keeps her distance: Dutifully collecting souls and escorting them to the Black Velvet Corridor, the place that separates our world from the next with the cold calculation of a centuries old brain surgeon. And then she meets Eve.

Feature, Supernatural Drama