WRITING PROJECTS:
PLAY:
NINA/VIOLETTA (play with music, 2 people)
Fresh Produce Play Festival 2024, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Chicago
Sept 1st 2024, 7:30PM
Directed by Devon de Mayo
Featuring Rebecca Spence and Cruz Gonzalez-Cadell
It’s been ten years since Nina left opera to raise her family. At forty-five, and against all odds, her dazzling comeback appears: a debut at The Met in La Traviata, performing the coveted leading role: Violetta. The opportunity dangles before Nina, and she dives into a dark fairytale where she’s forced to choose between her deepest passions: her family and her artistry.
STREAMING:
BEST THING YOU’ll EVER DO (short drama series)
Official Selection, Raindance Film Festival 2017, London
Winner, Best Short Drama Series, Independent Television Festival (HBO, Raptor Films) 2017
Winner, Audience Choice Award, SWF at Seattle Film Festival 2017
Silver Winner, Screenwriting, Washington DC Web Festival 2017
Finalist, Best International Drama, Melbourne Web Festival 2017
Winner, Emerging Voices Award, Brooklyn Web Festival 2016
STARRING
BHAVESH PATEL, Gold, LATE BLOOMERS, THE GOOD WIFE, JON GLASER LOVES GEAR
MYRA LUCRETIA TAYLOR, The Big Sick, ATLANTA, GIRLS
MICHELLE ANG, FEAR THE WALKING DEAD (Emmy Nomination)
Just when thirty-seven-year-old Mae Maurai's Silicon Valley start-up is poised to skyrocket, she learns her uterus is poised to close up shop. Mae is utterly undecided about whether or not to have a baby, but her fiancée wants nothing more than to have a biological family of his own. Does she seek the success she’s always desired or have a baby - which many people say is the "best thing you’ll ever do."
Available to stream on Vimeo & Amazon
SCREENPLAYS:
ANCHOR POINT
(feature film | thriller)
Official Selection, Stowe Story Labs Sidewalk Narrative Lab, 2021
A passionate scientist on a hellbent mission to save a tiny coastal town from a destructive algae bloom is forced to battle her own demons when she becomes haunted by a spirit in the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
HEARTLAND
(feature film | drama)
West Allis, Wisconsin 2013: Still reeling from the Great Recession, a massive auto-parts factory closes and thousands of good-paying jobs disappear as the polar vortex sets in. Newly pregnant Katie, remains quietly hopeful even in the face of her husband losing his factory job. But both of their worlds come crashing down when they learn their baby has a life-threatening genetic disorder. Facing rock-bottom finances, Tyler seeks solace in addiction and Katie seeks out West Allis’ new coding bootcamp. Katie’s community is skeptical of the bootcamp’s founder, Anya. But as Katie befriends Anya and learns about coding -- what it is, how it works, and what it can do -- she sees computer science as a way to solve her problems. With Anya by her side, Katie discovers new possibilities for her life and feels empowered to follow her convictions, but in doing so she finds herself at deep odds with her Midwestern family.
PROSE:
MEAT (a thrill-ride novel)
The spark of a new novel loosely based on somewhat true events. An upstart vegan influencer crashes the NYC celebrity chef clique through the reach of social media, but just as the NY Times’ food critic calls her plant-based restaurant “the gem in NYC’s fine-dining crown” she makes an appalling social gaffe and is cancelled from the entire food world. The story is called MEAT and it follows a fame-obsessed vegan chef who loses her status and then maybe her mind when embezzles $200k from her own restaurant and steals a rescue shelter greyhound to ride shotgun with her through America’s Heartland. It all builds to the moment she’s arrested in a roadside motel after using a credit card to order a Domino’s pepperoni pizza.
[WIP]
NOVEL
(strange, comedic, about climate change)
HUMORIST SHORT STORY COLLECTION
[WIP]