WRITER FOR HIRE
HASHERS (TV Drama): An introverted college freshman gets a dream job as a sorority houseboy, but gets implicated in a deadly mystery he must solve in order to prove his innocence and save the sorority. Hired to write this script by Google VP Jim Kolotouros.
MY MOTHER IS A BANK ROBBER (Thriller): A suburban housewife must rob banks to cover her deceased
husband’s gambling debt and save her daughter from ruthless thugs. Produced for Lifetime 2016
12 GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS (MOW Rom-Com): A harried banker hires a personal shopper to help him with his Christmas shopping, but discovers that she’s the best present of all. Produced for Hallmark Channel 2015.
TRAPPED (Thriller): A mother must rescue her teenage daughter from the diabolical leader of a sex slavery cult. Hired to write this script for Johnson Productions.
CULT OF LIES (Thriller): An unsuspecting teenage girl must destroy the leader of a Goddess worshipping cult, who uses young women to punish the men who've wronged her. Hired to write this script for Johnson Productions.
HOLLYWOOD HIT (Comedy): Two struggling actors are mistaken for Mafia hitmen and sent to Hollywood to persuade a producer not to make a movie. But the producer mistakes the hitmen as actors and casts them as leads in the film. Hired to write this script for Miracle Mile Entertainment.
AVAILABLE FEATURE SPECS:
BLACKOUT (Action/Disaster): When an EMP attack plunges NYC into total darkness in the dead of winter, an EMT and her fireman brother must lead their blended family through the gates of hell to reach their sanctuary in New Jersey.
THE TREASURED CAT: (Animated): Desperate to find a family, a scrappy orphaned kitten is adopted by a band of ragtag pirate dogs. She must unite warring cats and dogs to defeat a common enemy and bring true treasure to all animals.
SANDRA CLAUS: (Animated): Santa Claus’ daughter must prove to her family and the world that she has what it takes to be the next Santa Claus.
THE SIGN PAINTER (Dark Comedy): Desperate to reunite with his young daughter, a down-on-your-luck sign painter agrees to kidnap a cheating spouse, but he kidnaps the wrong woman setting up a comical circle of vengeance. This script won an award in the WIF/MORE screenplay contest.
THE DEATH OF ART (Romantic Comedy): A struggling artist fakes his death to increase the value of his paintings, but finds it difficult to keep his secret when he falls in love with his best customer.
JAMES BORKOWSKY 000 (Comedy): A septic tank salesman from Dubuque is mistaken for his doppelgänger, who’s a suave French spy. The salesman is swept up in a secret spy mission and must win back his fiancé from the French spy.
TROPHY HUSBAND (Comedy): A down and out, young stable boy is inspired by his trophy wife friends to find and marry a rich, older woman. He and his best buddy work the older babe market and find a suitable catch, but the stable boy learns the hard way that when you marry for money you must work for every penny.
JONNY WAS (Sci-Fi): A twelve year-old boy realizes he’s an experiment for aliens who’ve invaded and conquered Earth. He is whisked back to their planet where he is raised as the son of the ruling alien royal family. Eight years later he realizes the errors of his ways and must enlist the aid of his parents and other captured humans to defeat the aliens and re-claim Earth.
TROUBLE (Romantic Comedy/Road Movie): A down and out young man steals a rare ruby and kidnaps a young woman, but she turns the tables on him and embroils him in nothing but trouble.
SPRING BREAK NIGHTMARE (MOW Thriller): When a 19 year-old college student gets kidnapped by drug dealers on a spring break trip to Jamaica, her ex-military mother will stop at nothing to get her back and bring the kidnappers to justice.
QUIET NIGHT (MOW Thriller): A female night watchman at a storage facility discovers that the owners are involved in a human trafficking ring. She must infiltrate the ring to defeat the perpetrators and bring them to justice without being trafficked herself.
NEW MEDIA:
THE ANNEX (Web Series): Two telepathic children are recruited against their will to take part in a covert military operation. They cooperate in hopes of ending the program, but their success only convinces the government to expand it and round up more children. Hired to write this series by Unicorn Productions.
AVAILABLE TELEVISION SCRIPTS:
THE HOUSE THAT JACKIE BUILT (One Hour Dramedy): A Latina socialite's husband commits suicide leaving her broke. In danger of losing the house she built, she and her friends operate a male escort business under the guise of a book club and search for the lost money.
FUZION (One Hour Sci-Fi): A former miltiary single mom is given an AI neural implant against her will through a DARPA program to create a super soldier. She must work with an android created in the image of her dead husband to uncover an assassination plot to kill the President.
LIFE IN 2D (Half Hour Sitcom): A 40 year-old cartoonist has a mid-life crisis that manifests as one of his sexy, young comic book characters. She comes to life through an iPad app to teach him how to be a man. Was awarded a fellowship at the Writers Boot Camp with this script.
TWINDROIDS (Half Hour Sitcom): Two high
school freshmen adopt sexy, identical androids, who can’t relate to the logic
of high school and
turn the boys’ world upside down.
TV SPEC SCRIPT:
MAD MEN “Paper Dreams”
(Spec): Don and the boys market paper dresses for Scott Paper. Don reads “The Feminine Mystique” to help him understand modern women, Betty explores her burgeoning sexuality, Salvatore is exposed to emancipated gay men and Joan stands up to her abusive husband.
EDUCATION:
University of California, Riverside - MFA in Screenwriting
University of Pennsylvania - B.A. in Russian Studies
Choate Rosemary Hall
RELATED EXPERIENCE:
Professor of Screenwriting at Pepperdine University, LA, CA
Professor of Screenwriting at Santa Monica College, LA, CA
Professor of Screenwriting at ScreenwritersUniversity.com
Visiting Professor of Screenwriting at Spalding University, Louisville, KY
VP of Production: Kopelson Entertainment, LA, CA
Creative Executive: Interscope Communications Inc. (Feature Dept.), LA, CA
Assistant to Producer: Kushner-Locke Co. (MOW Dept.), LA, CA
Writer/Producer/Owner: Chelsea Players Theater Company, New York, NY
Assistant Director: Nikitsky Vorot Theater, Moscow, Russia
Assistant Producer: ABC News, Moscow, Russia