LATEST PROJECTS:
NEW PLAY
TALK OF THE TOWN
Full-Length Comedy Play
TALK OF THE TOWN is a full-length comedy adapted from James Thurber's classic memoir 'The Years With Ross.' It tells the story of the birth of The New Yorker magazine in the 1920's and paints a portrait of its eccentric creator and editor, Harold Ross. It also chronicles the rise of James Thurber from small town Ohio newspaper man to world famous humorist and cartoonist.
WINNER: Runner Up at the 2023 Screencraft Play Contest
WINNER: Best Stage Play at the 2022 Austin Film Festival
WINNER: Audience Favorite at the 2021 Dayton Futurefest
SCRIPT
NEARLY DEPARTED
Original Rom-Com Screenplay
When a struggling ghostwriter for motivational
speakers is haunted emotionally (then literally) by a
lost love, she must find the closure and optimism
to move on so that her ghost lover can do the same.
NEARLY DEPARTED is on THE BLACK LIST of top scripts
WINNER - Titan International Awards 2023
SEMI-FINALIST - 2022 PAGE AWARDS competition
QUARTER-FINALIST - 2026 Big Apple Film Festival
UNGRATEFUL Pilot for a One-Hour Limited Series
When a young lawyer discovers her family's dark secret about her uncle being imprisoned for a cop killing, she fights to free him which threatens to destroy her upcoming wedding and tear both families involved apart.
SEMI-FINALIST - 2026 Outstanding TV Pilot
FINALIST - 2026 NY Script Awards
SCRIPT
THE BARBER
Original Comedy Screenplay
When an 80 year old Bronx barber becomes the personal stylist to an aged mob boss, he gets caught between the FBI, a ruthless drug gang and his fed up wife while taking a last shot to regain his former glory.
SHORT LIST NOMINEE - 2024 BARNSTORM Festival
FINALIST - 2025 WIKI Screenplay Competition
QUARTER-FINALIST - 2025 Stage 32 Comedy Contest
QUARTER-FINALIST - 2026 Emerging Screenwiters
PLAY
COMPROMISED
Full-Length Dramatic Play
A celebrated journalist and his wife invite a young couple to their home to help them recover their missing car. The encounter reveals unpleasant, hidden truths that threaten to destroy both relationships. It deals with how we can be crippled by the bad choices and the secrets we're forced to keep.
WINNER - 2022 Best Play at the Austin Film Festival
WINNER - 2021 Best Play from Playwrights First NYC
SEMI-FINALIST - 2020 Eugene O'Neill Drama Award.
CHASING THE DARK
One-Hour Drama Pilot
CHASING THE DARK is a one-hour, serial drama about a Russian psychic who runs from a dangerous,
satanic force until she reads the cards of a man who will either be the love of her life or her undoing.
In the series, all the things in the mystical world that we think can’t exist (mind reading, ghosts,
fortune telling etc.) are real. And they're very scary.
WINNER OF A DOZEN TOP HONORS INCLUDING:
BEST TV SCRIPT - 2021 Wiki Screenplay Contest
SEMI-FINALIS - 2020 Filmatic Screenplay Awards
BREAKNECK RIDGE
Feature Thriller Script
In this modern-day film noir set in a run down section of Upstate New York, tragic events involving a young drifter, a homeless girl and a sadistic cop are explored through each character’s perspective to reveal the hidden truth of what happened and why.
​
WINNER - Best Screenplay 2022 Wiki Competition
SEMI-FINALIST - 2022 Fade In Film Awards
FINALIST - Reno Tahoe Film Festival
SEMI-FINALIST - 2023 Page Turner Awards​
QUARTER-FINALIST - 2026 Emerging Thriller Contest
POKER FACE
Half-Hour Comedy Pilot
​
POKER FACE is a single camera, half hour comedy. It asks the question, can a brilliant and beautiful brain expert help a world famous card shark regain his ‘poker face’ after an accident destroys his social filter?
​​​
QUARTER-FINALIST - 2020 STAGE 32 Comedy
TV Pilot Contest​​
​FINALIST/HONORABLE MENTION - 2021
Wiki Screenplay Competition Comedy Awards
PLAY
BAD HEARTS
Full-Length Dramatic Play
Set in 1975, ‘Mags’ Esposito is suspended from college and has to return to the war-zone of a home she grew up in.
Her tenure there is brightened when she helps her younger brother, Eddie, battle his chronic stuttering and shyness. 'Bad Hearts' is about the tragic place many of us are forced to call home.
​
WINNER: 2016 STANLEY DRAMA AWARD Best Play in NYC
FINALIST: 2018 Screencraft Stageplay Competition
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS:
RUNNING GUN
Original Western Screenplay
FINALIST: 2021 SCREENCRAFT Family Screenplay Competition
WINNER: Best Screenplay (2010) Vail Film Festival
​
MINUET ON THIRD
Full-length Comedy Play
WINNER: Playwrights Take the Stage (2019) Award for excellence from the Players Theater in NYC.
WINNER: ROBERT J. PICKERING AWARD (2019) for Best Play
During a struggle to hold onto her colonial home in NYC, 90 year old Abigail Peechly makes the shocking discovery that she is the last living heir of Peter Minuet and that she 'owns' the island of Manhattan.
MINUET ON THIRD is a Capra-esque satire about the loss of civility in the modern world.
WASTED DAYS
Full-Length Dramatic Play
PRODUCED by The Blank Theater as part of their Living Room Reading Series in Los Angeles in March of 2018
Four post-college friends struggle with drugs and race relations during three years in the 1980s; the night John Lennon was murdered, the day Ronald Reagan was shot and the day John Belushi overdosed. The play shows how the catastrophic events of the 80s all but crushed the social progress born in the 1970s.