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MFA Screenwriting Graduates 2021 Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television
A Letter from the Dean 2021 MFA Screenwriting Graduates LMU School of Film and Television I’m proud to present the 2021 MFA Screenwriting Directory featuring the work of our talented Writing for the Screen and Writing and Producing for Television graduates. In the LMU School of Film and Television students are encouraged to bring to life those stories that only they can tell; stories of lived and cultural experience; stories that speak diversity, adversity, and triumph; stories that spark imagination and repressed memories; and stories that touch the heart, stir the mind, and activate social change. Enclosed you’ll find projects that explore a broad range of genres that are told with a mastery of the craft that seek to expand the stories told in the industry. I am honored to introduce you to the vital voices of our 2021 cohort. The directory includes each graduate’s bio, loglines for their original screenplays and pilots, and contact information. I’m eager for you to be able to work with these incredible writers and producers. Producing creative work through this markedly challenging time in our collective history is no small task. Resilient and irrepressible, each graduate is poised to launch a thriving career in the industry, offering fresh perspectives on the human struggle. I look forward to seeing their work in the public consciousness for years to come. Kind Regards, Bryant Keith Alexander Interim Dean, LMU School of Film and Television Dean, LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts 1 LMU Drive 310 338 5800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 sftvdean@lmu.edu sftv.lmu.edu
Writing for the Screen
Erin Boyle | 4
Theodore Bronson | 6
Kendra Copeland | 8
Isabelle Davis | 10
Andrew Hammersmith | 12
Luke Hart-Moynihan | 14
Jillian Ibarra | 16
Max Kubisiak | 18
Gabriel Lugo | 20
Jamil A. O'Quinn | 22
Simon Sierra | 24
Savannah Solorio | 26
Stanley Swindling | 28
Writing and Producing
for Television
Alexandra Aguas | 32
Emanuella Bettarello deOliveira | 34
Calee Coleman | 36
DeLaynna Corley | 38
Samantha A. D'Amico | 40
Michaela Deaton | 42
Seth Finkelstein | 44
Hannah Herman | 46
Mackenzie Hively | 48
Candice Horde | 50
Alexis F. Hunter | 52
Mario Johnson | 54
Patrick Kelly | 56
Edwin L. Martin | 58
Ethan Raduns-Silverstein | 60
Preston Ray | 62
Addison Woodside | 64
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Writing for the Screen Graduates
01 Erin Boyle
919 260 1954
eeboylenc@gmail.com
4
With her love of travel, history, and Ever Thine (Pilot, Drama,
dreams of being Nancy Drew, Erin Adaptation) In the summer of 1799,
has found adaptation to be the most Josephine Brunsvik, a free-spirited,
rewarding form of storytelling. When aristocratic lady, falls for her poor,
watching “based on true story” films or low-born piano tutor, Ludwig van
shows, she keeps a search browser open Beethoven. When their affair is
to research every character and to solve discovered, pressure from Josephine’s
history’s greatest unanswered questions. family to marry someone of equal
She hopes to further develop stories nobility threatens their romantic and
about figures forgotten by history, and professional futures.
when she’s not playing video games or
escaping rooms for fun, she’s planning Lucid (Feature, Transmedia Sci-Fi/
her next trip abroad so she can reach all Adventure Video Game) Emilia wakes
seven continents by 2030. from a twenty-year coma to find herself
in an unfamiliar, futuristic lab run by
Capa & Taro (Feature, Drama, a mysterious neuroscientist. As she
Adaptation) As political tension investigates how she got there, she
spreads across 1930s Europe, Endre uncovers a disturbing plot concealed in
Friedmann and Gerda Taro create the a vast, spellbinding simulated world.
persona of American photojournalist
Robert Capa to conceal their Jewish
identities. Under the guise of Capa,
they put their lives on the front line to
expose the humanitarian horrors of the
Spanish Civil War.
sftv.lmu.edu 5
02 Theodore Bronson
630 244 7745
tbronsonwriter@gmail.com
Instagram: @ted.four
6
With a B.A. in Biology and Japanese, Forgotten Depths (Feature, Sci-fi/
Ted has no trouble dissecting a fruit Mystery/Thriller) Tokyo, 2083.
fly or navigating Tokyo. But after When a loner detective is hired by
graduation, he realized neither subject an injured amnesiac to recover her
was his true passion. Add heartbreak identity, he’s forced to dive into his
and social isolation in his homophobic own haunted past.
hometown to the mix, and he had the
perfect recipe for a quarter-life crisis. Rosefrost (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/
Amidst this low point, though, he Horror) When a mentally unstable
realized he had to express himself— ex-psychologist finds new work as
he had to be a writer. Embracing the a groundskeeper at the isolated
lessons of his rocky road as well as his Rosefrost Hotel, she discovers dark
visually bold imagination, Ted writes magic that manifests inner demons
sci-fi and horror tales that explore and resolves to save the hotel’s
identity, loss, and love. unsuspecting guests.
Stonebleeder (Feature, Horror) A Finalist—ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script
love-struck coal miner is haunted by Competition 2021
a mysterious man made of smoke
who claims he can help him secure his Lifepasser (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/
fragile relationship with another miner Sci-Fi) Amidst a galactic civil war, a
… if he’s willing to shed some blood. soldier having a crisis of faith absorbs
an alien substance that grants him a
Winner of LMU's Samuel Z. Arkoff Award godlike power over life and death.
for Best Unproduced Screenplay
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03 Kendra Copeland
661 312 5870
kg.cope@gmail.com
kgcope.wixsite.com/qandanla
Instagram: @kg_copeland1
Twitter: @Kendra94795929
8Born in an under-resourced small town Nannerl (Pilot, One-Hour Historical
in Missouri, the only vegetarian in a Drama/Mini-Series) Mozart’s equally
sea of barbecue-obsessed carnivores, brilliant sister, Nannerl, plays her dying
Kendra felt isolated. She used films to brother one final melody. By his side,
see beyond her circumstances, falling she recounts Mozart’s rise to fame
in love with the cinema and developing while societal oppression stifled her
a comprehensive knowledge of its dreams of being a composer.
history, inciting her dreams of being
a screenwriter. But life had different Retrospective (Feature, Drama/
plans. Kendra became a caretaker Thriller) A tennis coach is attacked by
for her three nephews—learning to her adoptive son, the #1 ranked tennis
cook and change diapers. She traveled player, resulting in his suicide and her
from Shanghai to London assisting memory loss. While struggling to regain
prominent curators and became a crisis her identity, her son's ghost prompts
response professional helping college her to investigate the circumstances
students who’ve endured assault. behind the attack, forcing her to face
However, her love of screenwriting dark deeds she committed as a mother.
never ceased. Now, to promote greater
compassion, Kendra writes sincere Bodies Without Blemish (Feature,
and character-centric stories about Drama) A struggling actress and single
women of color who overcome trauma mother is cast by a renowned director
despite the odds. seeking women who have bodies
without blemish, triggering a harrowing
The Griever (Pilot, Half-Hour Dark on-set odyssey that reaches a predatory
Comedy) A professional griever is boiling point.
hired by dying narcissists to perform
fake heartfelt eulogies at their funerals. Recipient of the Henry Bromell
But after a near-death experience, Scholarship 2020
she’s blackmailed by her dead clients’
reformed spirits to rectify their
wrongdoings on Earth.
sftv.lmu.edu 904 Isabelle Davis
843 610 7606
izzyd357@gmail.com
Instagram: @izzybelledavis
Twitter: @izzybelledavis
10Izzy is from the least exciting Florence Super Bowl.
in the world … Florence, South Carolina.
Growing up in the traditional world of Joan of Arkansas (Feature, Comedy) A
cotillions and debutantes, she had the willful college sophomore in California,
delight of wearing a wedding dress at far away from her uppity southern
the age of nineteen without a fiancé. hometown, is forced back home for her
Because no sports injury has ever debutante ball and has every intention
been as traumatic as that experience, of ruining it for everyone.
she chose to focus on sports and has
yet to give up on her Olympic dreams Queen of Carts (Pilot, Half-Hour
… though some suggest she should. Comedy) Kat Fischer’s life is planned
When she’s not trying to turn her around her soon-to-be pro-golfer
six younger siblings into the next boyfriend, until he breaks up with her
Harlem Globetrotters, she’s using their unexpectedly because she isn’t “golf-
incapacities (okay, and her own) to drive wife material.” She takes on a job at his
her comedic, coming-of-age stories. country club to win him back and prove
him wrong.
Clean Sweep (Feature, Sports
Comedy) Dealing with their mid-life Five Golden Rings (Feature,
crises, two best friends—a former Romantic Comedy) Childhood best
hockey player stuck in past glories friends, Danny and June, promise to get
and a try-hard single dad—create a married at the age of thirty, if they’re
curling team of misfits in pursuit of both single. That promise becomes
the Olympics. a nearing reality, as June strays from
commitment and Danny copes with
Madame Ram (Feature, Drama/ four failed engagements.
Sports Biopic) After the death of her
husband, former showgirl Georgia
Rosenbloom is made the first female
owner of an NFL team and arguably
the most controversial. That year,
while Rams fans and the media cope
with a woman at the top of a man’s
world, she takes them to their first ever
sftv.lmu.edu 1105 Andrew
Hammersmith
330 612 7695
a.hammersmith1@gmail.com
12Andy was born in the entertainment Deep Cut (Feature, One-act Play,
capital of the world, Akron, Ohio. His Comedy) An unsuccessful rock band
family introduced him to films from returns to their former high school to
the absurdity of the Marx Brothers to play the talent show. Minutes before
the spectacle of James Bond. He turned the gig, the selfish members argue
his binge watching into a passion for over their future as their bass player
storytelling. As he began to write, he unexpectedly croaks.
developed an inner comedic voice that
allowed him to circumvent his shy, outer Insulin (Feature, Dramedy) Unable to
candy shell. Strange ideas escaped his afford insulin, an uninsured diabetic
brain, including a totally normal biopic divorcé smuggles drugs to survive.
about Guy Fieri and a mockumentary When he’s not hustling for idiotic
about Mr. Clean. When he isn’t watching gangsters, he tries to be the world’s
old movies, he writes comedy and greatest dad for his daughter. On
genre pieces about absurd people doing a dad weekend, he’s forced to take
absurd things. her along for a pickup across the
Canadian Border.
Tom, Dick, and Harry (Feature,
Spy Comedy) Presumed dead, a
cantankerous retired assassin hides out
in a senior living home. When the CIA
tracks him down, he enlists his fellow
residents to trade in their walkers for
weapons to protect the facility from a
death squad.
Bellview Blues (Pilot, Half-hour
Comedy) Imprisoned in a remote
Wyoming town, an inept con man must
repay his debt to society by turning the
town for profit. Desperate, he passes
off the local stream as a holy site with
“magical properties.”
sftv.lmu.edu 1306 Luke
Hart-Moynihan
443 254 0942
lhartmoynihan@gmail.com
14Luke was born in Rome, Italy to a family Out of the Sea (Feature, Myth/Epic
of historians. He grew up in Annapolis, Fantasy) A witch’s daughter on the
Maryland and attended the College fringes of her small community will
of William & Mary, where he studied stop at nothing to gain the love of her
Neuroscience, Mathematics, and the sister’s betrothed in the brutal winter
real moneymaker: Ultimate Frisbee. of 10th-century Iceland. Based on the
Disillusioned by the way science Saga of Eric Brighteyes (1890) by H.
degrees seemed to act as a funnel into Rider Haggard.
defense contracting careers, Luke
decided on the pen as his weapon of Aralkum (Feature, Survival Drama)
choice. Luke’s writing is guided by a With no other way to earn money for
deep admiration for ancient stories, food, a father and son set out across
particularly tales exploring themes of the desert of a former seabed to
nature mysticism. He spends his days scavenge resources from an abandoned
coaching ultimate and teaching calculus bioweapons facility.
in his time away from translating myths
into scripts. God’s Dice (Pilot, One-Hour
Historical Drama) Physicists of the
Liebe Lise (Feature, Historical Drama) early twentieth-century struggle
Austrian-Jewish physicist Lise Mietner to survive and keep their humanity
struggles to escape 1938 Nazi Germany through two world wars, flight from
while her work leads towards an earth- persecution, weaponization of their
shattering discovery—nuclear fission, the work, and discoveries that alter the
key to the atomic bomb. course of history.
The Táin (Feature, Myth/Epic
Fantasy) In mythic iron-age Ireland, an
exiled king allies with a proud queen to
steal a magic bull and retake his former
kingdom, but his semi-divine foster-son
stands in their way. Based on stories
from the Irish Ulster Cycle.
sftv.lmu.edu 1507 Jillian Ibarra
661 621 1470
jillianbibarra@gmail.com
Instagram: @jillianbibarra
Twitter: @jillianIbarra
Facebook: jillian.ibarra.3
16Born and raised in L.A. to Mexican and Aliento (Feature, Drama) Valentina Guatemalan, Catholic immigrants, leads a social justice movement within SoCal is engrained in Jillian. Since her Latinx community by taking down childhood, she dreamt of working the bigoted cop that unjustly killed in film and even earned degrees her brother. in Theatre and Film Studies, but doubts led her down a different path. Sabor A Mi (Feature, Drama) Set in the She worked with domestic violence ‘90s, an impoverished Latina is saved victims and graduated with a Masters by a conflicted white supremacist after in Educational Counseling. Yet, she colliding in a car accident, they fall in found herself with a degree and job love and face dangerous consequences. she didn’t hold passion for. With a strengthened backbone, she decided Golgotha (Feature, Drama, Thriller) to forge a new path towards her true To pay her sick mother’s medical bills, dream, screenwriting. Embracing her Bianca, a street-smart teenage drug roots, Jillian writes with her California- dealer, works for a vicious drug queen, bred, Latina voice to give the Hispanic but when a Narcotics Officer begins community representation in film tracking her, she must escape the and TV. Jillian is the proud recipient dangerous drug underworld. of the 2021 Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship. L.A. (Pilot, One-Hour Drama) After Novia, a medical student, living in L.A., with her undocumented father, Jose, a doctor from Mexico now a Paletero man, helps an injured non-citizen, they discover the desperate need for medical help in their largely uninsured community and open an undercover medical center. 2020 LMU SFTV Award: Best Graduate Pilot Finalist sftv.lmu.edu 17
08 Max Kubisiak
406 241 2740
maximilian.kubisiak@gmail.com
Instagram: @the_obligatory
Twitter: @paperbackwrit20
Facebook: maximilian.kubisiak
18Born in Fargo and raised in Montana, Plastikuni (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/
the American West is in Max’s blood, Sci-Fi) “Organics” battle “Artificials” in
though he harbors a healthy skepticism a world where plastic has altered all life
toward its founding myths. Growing forms. Against Organic laws, a young
up in a mixed-race white/indigenous Artificial named Ishmael gives birth to
family in a liberal town in a conservative a child. The child is special—a living
state, Max is equal parts sensitivity and amalgam of the human and the plastic.
cynicism. It’s the contradictions! If you
could open his head, you’d find Black Butte, America (Pilot, One-Hour
Sabbath’s “Paranoid” playing on loop. Drama/Period Western) An Irish rebel
His inner darkness hasn’t stopped him on the run, a Blackfoot saloonkeeper
from loving and writing stories about who survived the Marias Massacre,
characters facing overwhelming odds, and a Chinese-American doctor
especially in Westerns. He will take the meet in the streets and gutters of
genre beyond its white male frame, if it’s Butte, Montana—a town they love
the last thing he does. and struggle against with their hearts
and fists.
Bigfoot Nation (Pilot, Half-Hour
Comedy) An outcast Bigfoot who Advanced to the second rounds of
studies humans, a Ted Kaczynski Sundance's Episodic Lab competition and
conspiracy theorist, and a bored Gen Austin Film Festival's Drama Teleplay
Z-er are all unwittingly drawn into competition.
a ring of political, corporate, and
international intrigue in a small Rocky
Mountain town. The trio bumbles
through the absurdities of a classic
western conspiracy.
sftv.lmu.edu 1909 Gabriel Lugo
787 403 0546
gabriel.lugo.barrera@gmail.com
20Growing up Puerto Rican gave Gabriel The New Wave (Feature, Musical a unique perspective on what it means Drama) A momentary bliss that shaped to be American and a serious case music forever. From love affairs to of Spanglish that encouraged him to Grammy Awards, see the origins of explore nuanced characters in exotic Bossa Nova through the eyes of the Girl backgrounds. He grew up in a family of Ipanema herself, Astrud Gilberto, an of engineers and doctors. But when insecure housewife in 1950’s Brazil who his island was devastated by Hurricane struggles to step out of her husband’s Maria, he had too much time to think shadow, João Gilberto. and even more stories to tell. He daydreamed about a kid that finds a Untagged (Feature, Romantic magical golden gas can for his generator Comedy) After a messy breakup, which brings him a much-needed Anthony and Dyanne meet on vacation hot shower and accolades for his first and get stuck traveling together after production. Having achieved both, their companions get lost on a party he dove into screenwriting, hoping to tour bus. The ex-lovers must work ignite in others the passion he feels for together using social media to find troubled but talented souls searching them in time for the biggest soccer for a deeper connection. match in Italy. Blackout (Feature, Tragicomedy) An Brobots Pilot, (Half-Hour Animated anti-social, grieving son avoiding his Comedy) A shiny next-gen robot, its 21st birthday, his overworked mother outdated counterpart, and their harsh stranded on a business trip, and his AI spaceship, struggle with free will commitment-phobic older sister after returning from a long mining reliving her youth, reunite during a mission outside the solar system to find major blackout in Puerto Rico after a their human overlords destroyed by devastating loss to the family. nuclear warfare. sftv.lmu.edu 21
10 Jamil A. O'Quinn
424 298 9581
jamil.a.oquinn@gmail.com
jamilakimoquinn.com
Instagram: @joquinn06
Twitter: @joquinn06
Facebook: jamilakimoquinn
22A queer nerd from Compton, Theodicy (Pilot, One Hour Drama) California, navigating life with a Sex, drugs, and debauchery is not what disability, Jamil loves media arts and you expect in divinity school. But for academia in a world that imposes a this theological protégé who enters narrow vision of what it means to be a seminary, the sacred veil of religion Black man. A writer, director, and actor, is lifted when cutthroat competition he holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and threatens to reveal his darkest secrets a Master of Divinity from Princeton. that could destroy his family legacy. After performing in the national tour of “The Book of Mormon,” Jamil Street Sweep (Feature, Drama) The returned to Los Angeles for an MFA in ivy league becomes a distant dream Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount once Jordan Price is thrown on the University. As an LMU student, Jamil streets and has to navigate her pursuit created and produced the inaugural of college from a Los Angeles homeless “Black” in Business speaker series, tent community. highlighting top Black executives from Diverse Representation, JuVee LMU SFTV Social Justice Screenplay Productions, and HBO. Jamil is Award 2020 dedicated to writing layered, queer, family narratives that give voice to systemically voiceless communities. And, A Child Will Lead (Feature, Drama (Based on a True Story)) When the most powerful man in the march to freedom fails to break segregation codes in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, the last person anyone would expect to make Dr. King’s dream a reality is a 10-year-old girl known as the "Civil Rights Queen." sftv.lmu.edu 23
11 Simon Sierra
747 275 9815
simonsierraweil@gmail.com
simonsierra.com
Faacebook: Simon Sierra
24It was the violence of the Medellín Here Comes Midnight (Feature,
Cartel that sent his parents running, but Drama) Toiling away at a demolition
it was the infidelities of his grandfathers project going nowhere on the cruel
that kept them from ever going back. coastline of Vancouver, a deadbeat
The son of two Colombians who seizes the chance to start anew when
exchanged car bombs and estranged he steals his dead brother's identity and
families for a quiet life in Vancouver, with it, his brother's dreams of making
Canada, Simon was born out of their it in Hollywood.
search for something better. Growing
up listening to stories told in a language The Ballad of Clancy Fogle and Arlo
that wasn’t his about a world he’s never Rhodes (Pilot, One-Hour Crime
known, he turned to telling stories of Dramedy) A pair of Alcatraz escapees
his own. In his writing, Simon traces his reunite after more than half a century
parents’ steps to confront what they left on the run, bringing an obsessive
behind and what they went looking for— Marshal and his blind dog back onto the
journeying alongside the dreamers who trail of their suddenly not-so-cold case.
risk everything to cross the frontiers of
his pages so that he, too, can search for Jack-Rabbits (Pilot, One-Hour
something better. Drama/Biopic (Limited Series))
Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and
99¢ Dreams (Feature, Crime Montgomery Clift gather in the middle
Thriller) Desperate to post bail after of Nevada in hopes of making “the
the love of his life is seized by ICE, an ultimate motion picture”—only to end
undocumented dishwasher descends up with a box-office flop and a fatal,
into the underbelly of California’s final act to each of their lives. Based on
Central Valley and a bloody bidding war the 1961 production of The Misfits.
for the severed head of a man everyone
is looking for.
sftv.lmu.edu 2512 Savannah Solorio
817 422 6443
savsolorio@gmail.com
26Growing up in a strict Catholic cover band has her free-spirited
household, Savannah was taught that lifestyle threatened when her
thinking out of the box is dangerous. estranged daughter is kicked out of
But when searching the web for Juilliard and comes back into her life.
answers to questions she wouldn’t
dare ask in church, she stumbled upon The Way We Are (Feature, Drama)
a “Gay Test.” Her score? “99% - YAS, At Brigham Young University, a
QWEEN!” That one quiz led Savannah journalism student is tasked to cover
down a baby gay rabbit hole which breaking news of the LDS church
culminated in consuming six seasons of declaring LGBT members traitors.
“The L Word” in a month. As an adult, After interviewing a lesbian student,
Savannah now recognizes the negative she begins to fall in love, forcing her
portrayal in the past and (lez be honest) to question the bigoted ideas of her
recent queer storylines. She became a Mormon university and religion.
screenwriter in hopes to bring positive
LGBT representation to the screen Winner: 2020 LMU SFTV Pope
through stories depicting badass female Francis Award
protagonists finding their way in this
convoluted world. Nominee: 2020 LMU SFTV Awards Best
Graduate Feature
The Poetess (Feature, Period
Dramedy) "After a thwarted Metamorphoses (Pilot, One-
assassination attempt, renowned Hour Drama/Fantasy/Horror) A
poet Sappho is forced into exile in bartender discovers that she’s the
ancient Sicily, where her hubris and last surviving member of Medusa’s
terrible advice on love from Aphrodite bloodline, hunted by Poseidon.
jeopardizes her dreams of artistic Chased back to the all-female cult she
greatness. once escaped, she seeks protection in
the form of an Athenian prophecy.
The Motherscratchers (Pilot, One-
Hour Dramedy) A forty-something
middle school teacher in a classic rock
sftv.lmu.edu 2713 Stanley Swindling
954 701 0693
stanley.swindling@gmail.com
stanswinfilm.com
Instagram: @stanswinfilm
Twitter: @stanswinfilm
28Stanley Swindling is used to straddling group of “Gen Zero” twentysomethings
two worlds. Born into the cultural convene in a Palm Springs mansion to
wasteland of 1995 South Florida, he’s celebrate their final hours on Earth.
too young to identify as a millennial,
too old to claim Gen Z. While earning Winner: Best Graduate Screenplay, 2020
a BFA in Film, Stanley found himself LMU SFTV Awards
torn between a love for both studio
tentpoles and arthouse cinema. His Armadillo (Feature, Thriller/Horror)
work reflects this dysphoria, charting Central Texas, 2003: Easton, a stoic
a provocative middle ground between line cook still grieving the loss of his
the independent and the mainstream. younger brother, befriends a close-knit
Recurrent themes in his scripts include trio of eccentric locals. Unearthing the
mania, identity, and the exploration of group's deadly secret offers him the
privilege and masculinity. With training chance to move on ... if he can use his
in directing and acting in addition to wits to survive.
writing, Stanley aspires to triple-threat
status, producing genre-blending Magic Time (Feature, Historical
stories which speak to the zeitgeist with Drama) Idiosyncratic coffeehouse
startling authenticity. owner Joe Cino allows queer
playwrights to stage their radical
The Enigma (Feature, Erotic Thriller) productions amidst the turbulent
Novelist Dan Alistair is reeling from a milieu of 1960s Greenwich Village.
public scandal when he meets beguiling Based on the true story of the
newcomer Evan Verde at a secluded Caffe Cino, the birthplace of Off-
writer’s retreat. When Evan uses their Off Broadway.
experiences to tell a twisted story, Dan
becomes obsessed with uncovering his False Crime (Pilot, One-Hour Dark
secrets, pushing them beyond erotic Comedy) When a run-in with an
fixation to the brink of madness. old acquaintance turns fatal, public
radio host Ezra Webster uses his
Nights on Fire (Feature, Drama)In misfortune to fuel a sensational true-
2051, when the effects of climate change crime podcast.
have made the planet inhospitable, a
sftv.lmu.edu 2930
Writing and Producing for Television Graduates
01 Alexandra Aguas
212 203 2872
Lexa.Aguas@gmail.com
Instagram: @lexaaguas
Twitter: @lexaaguas
32As the daughter of an immigrant, Doom Dames (Pilot, Half-Hour
Lexa was encouraged to take every Comedy) An unskilled duo of
opportunity presented to her and twentysomething women must try to
follow her interests. As luck would have survive as they road trip across the
it, she was interested in everything! country in the midst of total societal
While others were collecting Pokémon collapse. Where can a bitch get brunch in
cards, Lexa collected hobbies: scuba this wasteland? “Broad City” meets “The
diving, golf, playing the piano and Last Man on Earth.”
double bass (not at the same time, she’s
tried), hydroponic farming, and more. Kurt Vonnegut’s Tomorrows (Pilot,
This insatiable curiosity brought her One-HourDrama-Dark Comedy/Sci Fi)
to study Biotechnology at Rensselaer In a population-controlled utopian future
Polytechnic Institute in frigid upstate where death only happens via volunteer,
New York. In her writing, Lexa draws on assisted suicide nurse Leora Duncan
her experience of being a queer woman uncovers the dark secret that a schism
in the male-dominated sciences. She has split the country into two vastly
tells authentic and inclusive character- different societies ... and both are being
driven stories infused with her unique deceived Based on a pair of short stories
viewpoint by combining sci-fi and by Kurt Vonnegut.
comedy. Currently, Lexa is exploring
her high-octane hobby of extreme The Denunciations (Pilot, One-Hour
keyboard building. Historical Drama/Limited Series)
Under threat of the brutal Gulag Labor
Tesla’s Totally True Adventures (Pilot, camps in 1930s USSR, prodigious
Half-Hour Animated Sci-fi Comedy) composer Dmitri Shostakovich is
Brilliant engineering student Dot condemned by Joseph Stalin. The
must keep her boss, famed eccentric timid artist must choose: cower to the
inventor Nikola Tesla, out of trouble as totalitarian leader to protect his young
his absurd contraptions wreak havoc on family or become a martyr for the sake of
1920s New York City where he battles advancing music. Based on a true story.
his longtime rival, Thomas Edison.
sftv.lmu.edu 3302 Emanuella
Bettarello deOliveira
954 683 8845
ebettarello@outlook.com
Instagram: @ebettarello
Twitter: @ebettarello
34Ella was always a puzzle solver. As a kid, Exchanged (Pilot, Half Hour Teen
she watched bloody true crime shows Dramedy) A Brazilian exchange student
with her mom, where they’d scream obsessed with American pop culture
their theories at the TV about who the navigates life in the U.S. as she compares
murderer was. At 17, she moved from reality to characters and circumstances
her home country of Brazil to the United she grew up watching—all while
States to pursue her own American desperately dodging deportation.
dream. There, as an outsider, she
pondered a new puzzle: where do I fit in? The Penthouse (Pilot, One Hour
During those first few years of adapting Teen Drama/Mystery) One year after
to a new culture, Ella found comfort in two horrible murders take place in a
writing her own teen murder mysteries luxurious penthouse, a guilty teenage
to post online for her friends back home. girl and her four best friends must face
Her work gained more traction than she the consequences of their involvement
ever anticipated. Strangers engaged in that tragic night as they learn their
with the world and characters she had lies might have helped the killer escape.
created! With a renewed confidence,
Ella found that her home could not Huxley Valley (Pilot, One Hour
be far away as long as she was able to Drama) A fucked-up reality TV show
create mysteries for others to unfold. family—addicted to the spotlight and
Nowadays, Ella writes for all of the other their made-up season arcs—has to
puzzle solvers out there who feel alone. cover their asses when one of them
brazenly commits a murder.
Fallmore (Pilot, One Hour Drama/
Horror/Mystery) After a nightmare
where her best friend is killed by a
terrifying creature, a teenage girl wakes
up to find that not only is he missing in
real life, but no one in the seemingly
perfect town of Fallmore seems to
remember he ever existed.
sftv.lmu.edu 3503 Calee Coleman
585 205 0120
calacoleman@gmail.com
Instagram: @cal_a_cola
Facebook: Cal Coleman
36Once upon a time in a land far away, a Gardenia (Feature, Animated Family
young princess, Cal Coleman, grew up Feature) In a once lush and magical
in the New York countryside. She twirled kingdom, two quarreling siblings,
about in footsie pajamas & a plastic tiara, Ida and Ezra, must learn to see from
singing (screeching) about adventure, each other's point of view as they
true love, and her desire for something travel into the past to find a magic
beyond the confines of the tiny rural dancing flower and save their kingdom
town. Her wishes on shooting stars, from its arid desert future. Inspired
dodging of potentially fatal apples, and by Hans Christian Andersen's Little
inclinations to kiss frogs forced her to Ida’s Flowers.
realize that you have to morph those lofty
dreams into a permanent reality yourself. Zoey & Zara & the Zaniest Zoo (Pilot,
An idealist and hopeless romantic, Cal Half-Hour Comedy/Children's
hopes to write stories that will make Animation) After their parent's open
children and parents alike think deeply a zoo and wildlife rehabilitation center
about the real-life heroes and villains that full of fantasy creatures, sisters Zoey
encompass them every day. With magic and Zara learn communication and
in hand, she sets off, no longer singing social cues through song and sign
terribly about the something more she language with their new animal friends.
longs for, but creating it herself.
Down Memory Lane (Pilot, One
M Y T H I C (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/ Hour Drama) When the death of their
Animated Family) Inspired by the childhood friend leaves them the deed
works of Hans Christian Andersen. After to a house, six friends are forced to
the theft of Peatopia’s magic royal pea, reunite and use the lessons they learned
the mystery of Mother Mythic unfolds as playing together as kids as a map for
Princess Viv, Prince Agner, and Farmer navigating adult life.
Penelope venture off into lands unknown
to protect the magic and prevent a young
girl from becoming a true villain.
sftv.lmu.edu 3704 DeLaynna Corley
734 353 5966
delaynnacorley@gmail.com
delaynnacorley.com
Instagram: @ladeeda____
Twitter: @delaynna_corley
38While other kids were outside catching We Are The Unicorns (Pilot, Half Hour cooties, DeLaynna was inside, watching Mockumentary Sitcom) After several television with her family. They saw failed attempts to obtain a job, Mellie, an television as art, scheduling their aspiring and whimsical teacher, decides to lives around shows and ignoring calls create a co-ed scout troop for kids who are from bill collectors as the theme songs unpopular oddballs like her. played. Bouncing between two Black worlds with a Caribbean mother and a The Shopping Network (Pilot, Half- Southern father, DeLaynna spent her Hour Comedy) Corinne, a struggling days growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, empty nester, gets the opportunity to start surrounded by too many white people in her career for the first time by landing a AP classrooms and choir leagues. While job as a co-host on a failing and eccentric attending Columbia College Chicago, shopping network, after posting a viral fan she completed her Creative Writing B.A. video about the company. early, and fell in love with her added minor in Television Writing. Her stories Other People (Pilot, Half-Hour are inspired by her family, and luckily, Dramedy) After being fired from another they haven't disowned her yet because job, Chace, a passionate yet stubborn of them. As a writer, DeLaynna focuses journalist, decides to create an online on Black female leads and coming-of- magazine with the help of her juvenile age narratives with themes of friendship, brother and apathetic sister, hoping that romance, and second chances. it will reshape their careers and lives. Sid and Bugaboo (Pilot, Half- Zelda (Pilot, One-Hour Drama) Based Hour Animated Series (Age 8-13 on a true story about fashion designer, demographic)) When an adventurous Zelda Valdes, who created the iconic eleven-year-old girl gets into trouble Playboy bunny suit. Through glamorizing one too many times, a Bogeyman is sent dresses for curvier women, Zelda fights to scare her straight. But this monster racism, sexism, and inner turmoil in an turns out not to be the scary creature that industry that was never designed for her. she thought he would be, creating an unlikely friendship between the two. sftv.lmu.edu 39
05 Samantha A. D'Amico
302 373 7096
samanthadamico1414@gmail.com
Instagram: @samantha_annn14
Twitter: @sam_damico14
40Born and raised in Delaware to a chef hunting game by the offer of a wealthy
and a scientist in a progressive Catholic investor, Dr. Ginny Gold must grapple
family, the First State is engrained in with her personal demons in order to
Samantha’s heart. After beginning lead a crew of experts in search of the
her college career as a pre-med major, world’s most elusive treasures.
Samantha soon realized her love of
television outweighed medicine. Pretty Who Killed Sister Kathy? (Pilot,
soon, Samantha knew she had to be a One-Hour Drama/Crime Procedural)
writer to truly express herself. While Special Agent Elizabeth Jett and
pursuing a degree in Communications, her unit re-open unsolved murder
she decided to finally embrace the cases throughout the MidAtlantic
formidable imagination she has shared region, all while Jett attempts to solve
with her twin sister since childhood. the cold case of her twin sister, a
Samantha writes dramas, each Benedictine nun.
intertwined by a historical thread,
which explore love, grief, family, and HMHS Royal Comfort (Pilot, One-
being who you are, and being that well. Hour Historical/Medical Procedural)
She is represented by Matt Prater at Eleanor Allen and a group of British
CSP Management. Army nurses and doctors must treat
and care for the wounded men on
The First State (Pilot, One-Hour board a hospital ship during World
Historical Drama)Set in the industrial, War I as they battle their own personal
primarily immigrant, town of secrets and traumas.
Wilmington, Delaware in 1905, Eileen
Brennan, a new Irish immigrant, must Old Mother & The Street Rats (Pilot,
navigate politics, love, and betrayal. One-Hour Historical/Action Drama)
Meanwhile, the family she works New York City 1865: Confidence
for, the aristocratic Beauchamps, woman Birdie Dox is forced by a
battle to stay atop the social and mysterious and conniving woman to
professional ladder. team up with a group of young thieves
called the Street Rats to perform
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Drama elaborate heists to keep her criminal
Competition (2020) enterprise afloat.
Gold (Pilot, One-Hour Adventure/
Drama) When a socially anxious
genius is tempted to return to a treasure
sftv.lmu.edu 4106 Michaela Deaton
516 592 1066
michaela.deaton6@gmail.com
Instagram: @michaeladeaton
42Michaela grew up in the town of Flight of Kin (Pilot, One-Hour
Massapequa, New York, where she Family Drama) While on a tour full of
lived within blocks of her whole family. sex, drugs, and lies, a band comprised
Being from Long Island, she has a lot of four talented siblings fight with
of family members in law enforcement their label for more independence
and only noticed it's not a very common but are sabotaged by their manager,
thing until she went to the University who also happens to be their
of Tennessee to study journalism as a controlling mother.
first-generation college student. While
working at a news station, Michaela Devil’s Mark (Pilot, One-Hour
realized she wants to create stories and Fantasy/Crime Drama) Witches are
not just track them down. She uses her dying at the hands of exorcists, and on
upbringing and investigative skills to the anniversary of her mother’s death,
write crime and family dramas that a witch regains her lost powers to be
involve ambitious ensemble casts. the savior she never planned on being.
With these abilities, she must face the
Coney Island (Pilot, One-Hour demons from her past, including her
Historical/Crime Drama) Coney missing father and estranged brother.
Island, 1881—In a town built on blood
and money, a charming henchman Bluff Cove (Pilot, One-Hour YA
infiltrates a prominent gang to avenge Drama) In this “West Side Story”
his family, all while Coney Island is on the beach, a group of go with the
on the rise to becoming America’s flow teens get up at the crack of dawn
playground. to catch some waves and escape the
pressures of life, but the waters get
Bomb Squad (Pilot, One-Hour overcrowded when a group of rival
Drama/Crime Procedural) The surfers encroach on their territory.
fearless officers of the NYPD Bomb
Squad don’t just make up a unit, they’re
a family. With each of them chomping
at the bit to draw the short straw to suit
up and defuse any threat, the families of
these thrill-seeking individuals struggle
to understand their drive to rush
into harm.
sftv.lmu.edu 4307 Seth Finkelstein
781 248 9720
sethfkl@gmail.com
sethfkl.com
Twitter: @SuperSeth64
44Rocketed to Earth from the planet Lord Chamberlain's Men (Feature, Krypton by two desperate scientists, Historical Heist Comedy) After their Seth Finkelstein touched down north landlord refuses to extend the lease of Boston and was taken in by a kindly on their theater, William Shakespeare Jewish couple. After attending NYU’s and his acting company decide to steal Experimental Theatre Wing where the entire building plank-by-plank and he majored in rolling around on the relocate it to secure a future for their floor and screaming, Seth moved out creative work. to LA to pursue his dream of writing TV comedy. A lifelong nerd, he loves Archenemy (Pilot, One-Hour Drama) picking apart and finding new angles on Stuart Stevens is sure that he’s going historical, sci-fi, and animated genres. to become a superhero when he’s Seth performs live comedy at UCB and audience to a science experiment gone The Pack Theater, contributes to the wrong. But when his jock former best video game satire website Hard Drive, friend saves him and gets superpowers and visits Disneyland way more than an from the accident, Stuart decides to adult man should. Don’t get him started become a supervillain and take back the on the Haunted Mansion. powers that are rightfully his. Toonmates (Pilot, Half-Hour Live Lil' Miss Kate - Ward of the State Action/Animated Comedy) It’s a (Narrative Comedy Podcast) The dream come true when flesh-and- continuing adventures of 1941’s second- blood fanboy Alex Kepple moves in favorite precocious orphan adventurer! with cartoon former child star Roy Will 10-year-old Kate and her motley Thompson. Now, he just has to hide that crew of adult enablers finally find her his family are the ones gentrifying the long-lost parents? toon town he now calls home. sftv.lmu.edu 45
08 Hannah Herman
717 419 3268
hannah.herman@outlook.com
hherman.work
46When everyone was more upset about operating base in war-torn Iraq, finds
the harvest delay than her cousin’s three himself reckoning with the past as he
missing finger digits, Hannah realized and his peers handle the everyday duties
the rural midwest wasn’t built for an that rarely make history.
anxious and uncoordinated kid like her.
Eventually escaping her big irreverent Failure to Thrive (Pilot, Half-Hour
family and the Amish farm towns of Dark Comedy) Lenny tackles a chronic
her youth, Hannah landed at Boston illness and her twenties without
University as an immunocompromised getting pregnant, married or killed.
guinea pig and Blue Chip scholar. She’s Welcome to the underworld of the
been told her compulsive laughter immunosuppressed, where ports and
during injections is just a nervous pills act as a life support, but even that
response to pain, but Hannah also finds can’t prepare her for the trauma that
it emblematic of her work highlighting is adulting.
the inevitable overlap between joy
and suffering. Hannah writes about Pot Town (Pilot, One-Hour Crime/
dysfunctional families, institutional Family Drama) When two brothers
failings, and the unconventional ways find themselves on opposing sides
people cope with pain and trauma. in California’s Campaign Against
Marijuana Planting, allegiances
Barren (Pilot, Half-Hour Dark are tested within the tight-lipped
Comedy/Magical Realism) In the community that calls America’s pot
aftermath of their baby’s stillbirth, capital home.
eccentric couple Marlow and Dev clash
with overbearing loved ones, outspoken Codependent (Pilot, Half-Hour
neighbor kids, and each other while Dramedy) Years after their mother
trying to reconcile their newfound died of breast cancer, neurotic Quinn,
reality. Bottling up her emotions, now a mom herself, feels a lump and
Marlow begins to hear inanimate enlists the help of her estranged older
objects speak as they spew out the sister Marti, a recovering addict, to
feelings she hopes to keep suppressed. hide her diagnosis from her young
family. The two codependent sisters
Boots (Pilot, One-Hour Military soon realize family history has a way of
Drama) A combat soldier, demoted to repeating itself.
a squad of lowly grunts on a forward
sftv.lmu.edu 4709 Mackenzie Hively
805 910 6067
machively@gmail.com
Instagram: @machively
Twitter: @MacHively
48As a descendent of Mary Queen of Scots, family must join him in rehab, where
Mackenzie knew that in order to succeed the entire family’s problems are put
in life she’d need a good head on her under a microscope. Addiction is a
shoulders, so she became a debutante. family disease. Unfortunately, family is
Unfortunately, that wasn’t a viable career incurable.
option. Instead of being proposed to by
the eligible bachelors of Thousand Oaks, Reckoning (Pilot, One-Hour
California, she’s been kicked out of a Dystopian Fantasy Drama) After
sorority, tased, broken eight bones, and losing everything to the fallen angels
was once convinced she was pregnant that have taken over the world under
with the Messiah (don’t judge, Catholic the cruel direction of the Archangel
school does things to the rational mind.) Gabriel, impulsive Evie Porter is
After studying Political Science and hell-bent on joining the underground
Theatre at Tulane University, Mackenzie human resistance and getting revenge
realized she was closer to losing her against anything with wings.
head than ever before … so she became
a writer! Mackenzie writes about strong Night Falls (Pilot, One-Hour Fantasy
women forced to reckon with their Drama) The city of Night Falls has
demons—personal and otherwise. a vampire problem. To protect her
brother and avoid being a midnight
Immaculate (Pilot, Half-Hour Comedy) snack, Stella Vaughn becomes the
The Second Coming is ruined when the assistant to eccentric vampire detective
Angel Raphael accidentally impregnates Axel Dubois, while he investigates a
the wrong woman with the next Messiah. string of perplexing vampire deaths that
Now, as punishment for his mistake, have thrown the entire city into a tizzy.
Raphael is forced to live on Earth as a
human and help the not-so-virgin Mary Stoney Lonesome (Pilot, One-Hour
through her journey as the (accidentally) Drama) With her reputation and bank
chosen one. account in turmoil after her husband
is arrested, a spoiled socialite moves
Dysfunctional (Pilot, One-Hour in with her estranged sister to rebuild
Dramedy) When a college freshman her life and their relationship from the
discovers her straight-laced, nerdy father ground up.
is addicted to crystal meth, she and her
sftv.lmu.edu 4910 Candice Horde
281 740 2015
CandiceHorde@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/candicehorde/
Instagram: @CandiceGabrielleH
Twitter: @CandiceHorde
50The youngest of eight, Candice was with extreme anxiety that manifests in
an extrovert to avoid being forgotten imaginative ways, a recluse embarks
and a goody-two-shoes to balance on nail-biting and deeply personal
her rebellious siblings. Stories full of adventures in the hopes of forging
adventure and community became her unbreakable bonds with new friends
saving grace after her step-dad died. from film school and living a life she can
His death and those stories helped sell in a screenplay.
her realize life was too short to live
in mundanity, so she became a rebel The Fittest (Pilot, Half-Hour Drama,
without a cause. However, after a wild Anime/Fantasy/Sci-fi) Newly deemed
high school life filled with two non- terrorists set out to prove their loyalty
violent arrests and an egged police car, by capturing their country’s most-
she realized life wasn’t short enough wanted terrorist group called Specter.
to live in jail. So, post collegiate soul However, as they spend more time
searching, she chose an equally radical with the country’s undesirables, they
but fully legal career plan that allows start to question where their loyalties
her to tell stories about intersectional should lie.
women overcoming past traumas to live
lives full of adventure and community. Charm School (Pilot, Half-Hour
She prays one day her stories enrich lives Dramedy) Three enterprising college
the way others' stories did for her. freshmen, forced to attend Charm
School classes, promise to help each
CTRL (Pilot, One-Hour Drama, other take back their personal agency.
Grounded Fantasy/Sci-fi)A sheltered Their first order of business? Starting
teen thought her biggest obstacle in an enterprise that rivals OnlyFans.
high school would be grieving her dad.
Little did she know, his death makes her DIVE (Feature, Drama/Sci-fi/
the target of multiple magical factions Psychological Thriller) In a post
wrestling for her powers and hacking WWIII world that criminalizes emotion
skills crucial to finding a totem that and inefficiency, the patriotism of a
awards god-like power. top bio-psychologist and his guard are
gravely tested when they’re forced to
Everyone and Everything Sucks mentor a high government official’s
(Pilot, One-Hour Dramedy) Riddled manic daughter.
sftv.lmu.edu 5111 Alexis F. Hunter
615 438 7779
alexisfernarine@gmail.com
alexisfhunter.com
52Alexis is watching you. But not in Good Vibes (Pilot, Half-Hour Comedy)
a creepy way. Really! She’s just an Ex-nun Rosie, 20s, returns to her
observant person. Or at least she likes to childhood home and is tasked with
think so. Growing up the second of four saving the family business: a sex shop.
children, in a southern household that Now she must survive religious guilt-
spanned four generations, she realized trips, awkward encounters with old foes,
early she had a strong desire to really and self-righteous zealots who want the
understand people. It took her a little shop gone.
longer to realize that would be through
writing. Armed with that innate curiosity, Old Swan Hotel (Pilot, One-Hour
a very expensive Psychology mistake Drama/Historical/Limited Series)
(oops, I mean degree!), and a painfully In patriarchal England, soon-to-be
dry sense of humor, Alexis writes stories divorced mystery writer Agatha Christie
about people searching for their place in orchestrates the perfect crime, her own
the world—with her own special brand of disappearance. She must figure out how
reluctant optimism. to put her shattered life back together
before the quirky detective hot on her tail
Botany Bay (Pilot, One-Hour catches up to her. Inspired by her real-life
Drama/YA Adventure/Fantasy) disappearance.
When a troubled young woman’s
investigation into her high school Peachy (One-Act Play) A confrontation-
crush’s disappearance leads her into an averse bride-to-be and her opinionated
entirely new dimension—a failed penal younger sister’s bond is tested as an
colony with supernatural forces, feuding evening of wedding planning dissolves
inhabitants, and mortal danger– she into attempted sabotage and chaos,
must find the truth while also trying to revealing old strains in their relationship.
find a way back.
sftv.lmu.edu 5312 Mario Johnson
619 341 9629
rioeddienow@gmail.com
rioeddie.com
Instagram: @rioeddie
Twitter: @Rio_Eddie
Faacebook: facebook.com/rio.eddie.9
54Whaddupdoe! Rio sprouted from Pirated Dreams (Pilot, Half-Hour
the streets of Motown Hitsville USA Comedy-Fantasy (Animated/Live
and General Motors, surrounded by Action)) A recently orphaned boy
senseless crimes, while trying to enjoy moves in with his cranky uncle and
a Coney Dog. By the grace of God, discovers another world within his
Rio was able to escape to a ship that dreams where he searches for his lost
sailed around foreign and domestic parents in a flying pirate ship with his
seas, where he fought bad guys to motormouth pooch by his side.
protect home. This happened after
he was tricked into signing a 4-year SPUDS (Pilot, Half-Hour Animated
contract by a guy wearing a cape and Comedy) In a Potato Universe, one
a dixie cup hat … A Navy Recruiter. Hashbrown discovers the true identity
Rio was their only option. He was of a long-lost fallen hero known as
deployed twice and damn proud. He Spudderman and rehabilitates him,
doesn’t curse that much, I promise. and the two team up to keep their eyes
Rio’s adventures overseas are largely peeled for tater-ous foes.
classified. You can expect to see those
experiences channeled into his trippy Sidelined (Pilot, Half-Hour Comedy)
stories. Rio is dedicated to inspire other After suffering a career threatening
young minority writers that anything injury, an aging basketball phenom
is possible if you believe, even if you’re struggles with accepting a backseat to
from the Dirty Glove … Detroit. his wife as she becomes the family’s
sole breadwinner.
Whittier (Pilot, One-Hour Mystery/
Sci-fi Drama) A Navy sailor enlists
at a mysterious Naval Reserves base
to be closer to his dying mother and
discovers he’s transporting aliens
and an unknown medicine that could
potentially save his mom’s life.
sftv.lmu.edu 5513 Patrick Kelly
781 974 5940
ptrcklly@gmail.com
56As a kid, Patrick moved back and Demon Code (Pilot, One-Hour
forth between North Carolina and Drama/Sci-Fi) After a teenaged hacker
Massachusetts, never knowing exactly summons a sardonic demon through
where to call home. For hundreds her computer, the two band together
of years, his ancestors had a similar to hunt down legions of escaped
history of bouncing between the same hellspawn in order to restore her
two states. Looks like they didn’t know mother’s sanity.
where they belonged either. The loudest
of five kids in an Irish Catholic family, New Alaska (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/
Patrick found a home onstage in high Thriller) A Native fisherwoman and
school and went on to get a Theater a jaded veteran take on the state,
degree. After college, he worked a the feds, and the world as they start
series of odd jobs. He was employed as a revolution to make Alaska its own
a “chore boy” on an island commune, a independent nation.
custom art framer, as well as a tutor at a
non-profit for at-risk kids in rural North The Tide (Pilot,One Hour Drama/
Carolina. Patrick channels his years Thriller) After stealing from an
spent wandering into stories about the international terrorist, a modern
little guy rising up to fight the man, and day Indonesian pirate finds himself
outsiders in search of home. tangled in a CIA investigation led by a
ruthless agent.
Black Friday (Feature, Horror
Comedy) When the overly chipper
manager of a corporate craft store
goes on a homicidal rampage the night
before the biggest shopping day of the
year, a beaten down employee and his
co-workers will have to fight for their
lives (and minimum wage)!
sftv.lmu.edu 5714 Edwin L. Martin
786 501 3046
retrosupreme@gmail.com
xlorenzom.com
58From Miami, not Florida, Lorenzo’s After Hours (Pilot, One Hour Drama) stories reflect his many eclectic After her boyfriend Clayton goes interests, personal encounters, and missing and stuck with mounting eavesdropped conversations. Having debt, Chanel dances to make ends grown up in multiple environments, meet while trying to figure out what and earning his BA in English and MFA happened to him. in Television Writing and Producing, Lorenzo has developed skills in Big Dick Energy (Pilot, Half-Hour adapting his experiences and molding Comedy) Unhappy with his life them into multifaceted characters. (and lack of endowment), Charlie’s When not taking photographs, he problems are about to get a whole lot writes (or avoids writing) pilots and bigger when he undergoes a penis screenplays featuring black leads enlargement surgery. with multi-dimensional personalities challenging every stereotype imaginable. Black Men Don't Cheat (Pilot, Half-Hour Comedy) Tired of doing what’s expected of him, Marcus leaves medicine to pursue acting while he and his roommates, Jaylen and Andre, figure out life in a rapidly changing South Central LA. sftv.lmu.edu 59
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