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FEATURE SCRIPT - IT GETS WORSE (TRUE CRIME/DARK COMEDY)
A redneck couple and their young children take a shot at financial freedom by kidnapping a billionaire. A crazy-but-true story about the abduction of Elton B. Stephens Jr. on 9/11/20.
Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist 2024
FEATURE SCRIPT/PILOT - SUGAR (ACTION COMEDY)
A drug deal goes horribly wrong, and 5 million dollars is found by a trio of homeless people: a brash young woman with more mouth that sense, a wily ex-marine, and a grifter currently between grifts...they must escape the city, and earn a second chance at life as ruthless drug dealers, tweenaged girl assassins and a dirty cop close in.
FEATURE SCRIPT - PERDITION (PERIOD DRAMA/WESTERN)
1830s American South. After a teenage girl is found strangled, her wealthy father pays a unprepared posse of locals to pursue the suspect -- a teenage boy with Down syndrome -- into the dangerous Alabama wilderness.
Ranked #1 WESTERN and #1 PERIOD PIECE on THE BLACKLIST for 16 weeks
PILOT - GODS OF IOWA (DARK COMEDY/FAMILY DRAMA/CRIME)
When Orthodox Jew, Abel Liebkind and his awkward, 20-year-old, genius daughter, Rachel move to Iowa from NY, they bring Mexican and Somali immigrants into the largely White Christian town, turning a bankrupt meat packing plant into the most successful Kosher beef processor in the country. If only it were legal. Abel juggles family drama, mob debt, spiritual crisis, local politics and his daughter’s blossoming libido while trying to stay one step ahead the quickly closing net of the FBI.