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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)
Abel Liebkind and his socially awkward, math whiz 20-year-old, daughter, Rachel and high school-aged son, David turn a bankrupt meat packing plant into the most successful Kosher beef processor in the country. If only it were legal.
PILOT - NO SAINTS IN RENO (DARK COMEDY/FAMILY DRAMA/CRIME)
A 40-year-old cocktail waitress finds herself in way over her head after partnering with an unassuming gaming commission stats geek, a Russian mathematician and a disgraced FBI agent to bankrupt a casino.