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TELEVISION PILOT SCRIPTS

The Barn (2024)

Co-written with Phoebe Lai.

An overly optimistic tech billionaire Mason pursues his childhood dreams by buying out a new NBA franchise: the CULVER CITY COWS, LA’s 3rd professional basketball team. When business goes south, he hires his retired economics professor, Mrs. Bernie, to become the general manager of the young scrappy team.

Holocene (2024)

Co-written with Miguel Lìon and Bryton Snyder.

An hour-long animated series about a pre-historic royal family’s struggles to maintain power in the face of global cataclysms.

Unbearable (2023)

An hour-long drama about a young and glum jazz teacher that lives between being the runt of his successful jewish family, and being the one jewish teacher at a prestigious boarding school, where he leads his underfunded, underdeveloped, underdog jazz group.

The Late Game (2022)

An award-winning hour-long comedy about an ornery Late Night TV legend, forced to work under the threat of a younger, funnier, and beloved comedian taking the seat he has held for over 30 years. (PAGE International Contest Semi-Finalist)

Big Nights (2020)

is an hour-long comedy-drama pilot about small-town friends getting wrapped up running errands for one of New York’s saddest, dying mafia families.

Eat This, Santa Monica (2020)

is a half-hour mockumentary comedy pilot about two muppets who move from Australia to Santa Monica with hopes of opening the first Aussie Cuisine shop.

FEATURES & SHORTS

Grillfellas (2023) is a feature length political satire about a home-grown Texas dad, falling into massive political success by working as a pawn for a major underground PAC.

Lies in Sulphur (2021) is a feature Western about a Native American hustler who winds up in the middle of a murder mystery in the town of Sulphur, OK.

Holyfields (2022) is a feature about two abandoned kids in a rural town, navigating adolescence —

Benign Transgression (2021) is a 5-minute short about a robot designed to love, who gained independence and seeks affection from his one true love: a 2016 Mazda 5.

Grandfish (2022) is a 10-minute short about a middle-schooler on show and tell day, excited to bring in his best friend and grandma: a betta fish.

Cool an’ Green an’ Rainy (2020) is a half-hour short about two estranged brothers cleaning out their childhood home together.