Screenwriting

QB1

One-Hour Drama Pilot

Finalist, PAGE Awards, Screencraft Fellowship, Cinestory TV Retreat

Logline: As a legendary 41-year-old quarterback struggles to keep his career alive, an ambitious female executive convinces him to mentor his troubled successor, while they both seek the approval of the powerful owner of the team, a surrogate father to him–and an actual father to her.

Comps: Succession, Winning Time, The Morning Show.

Portland, 1988

Feature

Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist

Logline: When a horrific murder in 1980s Portland, Oregon, gets linked to a powerful white supremacist, a successful but jaded Jewish attorney joins the case, and puts his life, livelihood and family in danger, as he confronts his lost sense of idealism–and his own tragic Holocaust story. Inspired by true events.

The Big D

Feature

Logline: An aspiring young football coach in booming 1980s Dallas, Texas, develops a relationship with a charismatic and ruthlessly competitive mentor, which forces him to confront both his own family’s past and the dark underbelly of college sports. Inspired by true events.

Baghdad by the Bay

One-Hour Historical Drama Pilot

Logline: Amid the the beat-era cultural awakening in 1950s San Francisco, a narcotics agent who’s been hired by the CIA to dose unwitting suspects with a brand-new hallucinogenic called LSD as part of a covert Cold War program draws a pair of newcomers into his dark web. Inspired by true events.

The Real McCoy

Feature

Logline: A jaded newspaper reporter in the 1920s retraces his friendship with turn of the century boxer Kid McCoy, one of the first 20th-century celebrities, an enigmatic and striving gossip-column staple. As McCoy’s deceptions catch up to him, the reporter begins to question both McCoy’s motives and the values of a profession that’s increasingly beholden to celebrity culture.