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My Writing Journey
I began writing over fifteen years ago, finishing my first feature script back in 2009. Once I started, I honestly got hooked. My one man show, "The Battle of Bridgeport", premiered in 2017 at the People's Improv Theater. I have since turned it into a feature screenplay. My short "Meet Happy Vlad! Your Comrade News Interpreter" that I wrote, directed, and starred in premiered at the 2019 Burbank International Film Festival. I have written several award-winning screenplays (see below).
Screenplays
Who Killed William Desmond Taylor?
Television, One Hour Drama Pilot, 62 pages
Boston, 1854
Feature Length Historical Drama, 117 pages
Steele Heels
Co-written with Stephen Reich
Television, One Hour Drama Pilot, 46 pages
The Battle of Bridgeport
Feature length drama, 108 pages
Meet Happy Vlad! Your Comrade News Interpreter
Five minute short film
The Classic Hollywood Movie You Should Know
YouTube Documentary Series
A big-shot silent film director wages a publicity campaign to curb the growing calls for government censorship in the industry, leading to a murder where everyone in Hollywood is a suspect. Based on a true story.
Top 100, Launch Pad Pilot Competition 10th Annual
Finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Competition, 2023
2nd Place Winner, NY International Screenplay Awards 2023
Semifinalist, Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition 2022
Semifinalist, 27th Annual Fade-In Awards Drama Competition, 2023
Semifinalist, Scriptmatix Fellowship, April 2023
Semifinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Competition, 2023
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2023
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition 2023
Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Spring 2023
The arrest of twenty-year-old Anthony Burns as a fugitive slave, and subsequent riot and trial transforms Boston and its people, spreading the anti-slavery message to such a degree that afterwards one man wrote, "We went to sleep as compromise Union Whigs and woke up stark mad abolitionists”.
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2022
Semifinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2022
Quarterfinalist, Scriptation Showcase - Features + Shorts Category 2021-2022
Official Selection, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Spring 2022
'Steele Heels' is TV's longest running procedural, but with a misfit cast and crew, the real fireworks happen off the screen. A dramedy with bigger than life characters set in New York, 'Steele Heels' will make you wish you worked in showbiz... or make you grateful that you don't!
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition 2023
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2021
Quarterfinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Spring 2022
On the eve of the the 1972 Vietnam Draft, an 18 year old artist and his father, a WWII veteran turned firefighter, discover the true meaning of family, duty, and country in a divided world.
Quarterfinalist BlueCat Screenplay Competition 2019
After passage of the new tax law in 2018, a liberal couple learns that there was a hidden element in Congress' bill giving them a new houseguest, Happy Vlad.
Official Selection, Burbank International Film Festival 2019
A 100 episode YouTube series, each discussing the merits and behind-the-scenes stories of a film from Hollywood's Golden Age.
Over 170,000 total views