EYE OF THE MIND - short film
Logline: When a psychotherapist tries an innovative technique on a new patient, perception becomes a deadlly reality.
Writings
screenplays.
THE DELUGE - feature film
Logline: After the world has been decimated by climate change, humanity must find a new place to live. When a young girl's siezures are thought to be the porthole to a new dimension of consciousness and a way for humanity to survive, her father must decide if it's true or if she's being used.
SINGLE DADS - TV sitcom
Logline: When two fathers try to are thrust into the world of parenthood after their partners become "unavailable", the balancing act of being at the mercy of a childs whim and trying to forge a career in the arts leads to some very awkward situations.
BAD THERAPY - TV series
Logline: When a psychotherapist uncovers she was initiated into peodophile-ring full of high powered members of society, she must choose between exacting her revenge or healing her patients.
FOLLOWERS - feature film
Logline: When an influencer in the future gets invited to "level-up" she must choose between billions of followers and the truth.
THE FORTUNATE SLAVE - feature film
Based on a true story
Logine: The story follows the true life of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo who was an African prince, enslaved in America, and then freed to go back to his homeland.
stageplays.
THE VOTE - full length stageplay
Logline: When Stanley returns to his father's house after an extended college education he campaigns against his father to save the village tree. But the roots of this father-son relatioship are rotten because of what happened to Stanley's mother.
WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE - full length play
Logline: A comedy told from the perspecive of the Big Bad wolf. After losing his pups to the huntsman, the BBW undergoes an exitensial crisis. He journey's to re-discover his badness and save Fairy Tale Land from the fairy-dust addicted, narcissistic Little Red.
CHATROOM - full length play
Logline: Set in the mid 90s. A teenage Calvin, on the verge of manhood, is introduced to the internet when his father brings back their first PC. Happening upon a chatroom called "Any and All," Calvin meets a collection of often disingenuous and manipulative 'people' from around the world. Thus begins his education in sex, politics, porn and how to navigate the world, while his family withers around him.
MISS FORTUNE - full length play
Logline: Based off of the Tindersticks song "My Sister." and taking inspiration from Blake's poem 'The Sick Rose,' Chamlin Fortune and her brother Aaron are thrashed about by dramatic twists and turns tht come with living in a dysfunctional family living in the working class town of Herne Bay in South East England.
RIDE -VR/AR project
Logline: Set on a subway train, two passangers become frustrated when the train stops in the tunnel with no message fro the driver. Their anxiety breaks the fabric of reality, the train disintegrates and they are thrust into an lternate dimension where the true nature of their anxiety and fear are revealed
Fun (true) story:
In 2013, I was hired as a producer's assistant on the zombie film Maggie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. I flew out from gloomy London to fizzing New Orleans, eager to begin work on a big budget feature. When I arrived, to my stomach-sinking dismay, Arnie was about to pull out of the film - "these things happen all the time" I was told.
I prepared my soul for the trip back to the UK, when my producer pulled a hail Mary. He told me to get on the next plane to LA and then handed me a check for one million dollars.
"Give this to Arnold's agent," he said, " and tell that cocksucker to get Arnold out here next week. And don't fucking lose it!"
I sat on that plane holding that check in my clammy right hand for 5 hours as if it was the key to my soul. I didn't eat, drink, or go to the toilet. I think I even rationed my breathing.
Well, the agent was at the gate when I arrived, thank Christ. He opened up the check, beamed a Hollywood grin, pulled out his cell phone and said, "I got it, yep, we're good to go."
I took that as a 'yes' and felt the delicate particulars of my producers full message might be slightly overkill at that point.
When I arrived back in New Orleans that night, we partied until the sun came up. I was hailed as the savior of a half-decent zombie flick. And, that's how bourbon and ginger beer became my favourite drink. Cheers.
