A CUSTOM OF THE SEA (Feature, Historical Drama)
An ambitious barrister jeopardizes his career and morals as he battles to discern fact from fiction in order to prosecute a group of shipwrecked sailors accused of cannibalism in the trial that would forever change the laws of maritime crime. Inspired by true events.
- Winner (3rd Place - Historical Film): The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (2018)
- Semifinalist: BlueCat Screenplay Competition (2019)
- Top 10%: Academy Nicholl Fellowships (2018)
- Top 15%: Academy Nicholl Fellowships (2019)
- Second Rounder: Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2019)
- Second Rounder: Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2018)
- Quarterfinalist: Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest (2018)
- Quarterfinalist: Script Pipeline Screenwriting Contest (2019)
- Quarterfinalist: Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition (2019)
BLACK CAESAR (One-Hour Pilot, Period Drama)
When an African chieftain seizes his freedom from slavers by allying with the legendary Blackbeard, he struggles to thwart the pirate king’s plans for him as he conspires to return home. Inspired by a true story.
- Semifinalist: ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition (2024)
- Semifinalist: Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest (2023)
- Second Rounder: Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2023)
LYRE (One-Hour Pilot, Period Drama)
A post-World War II housewife desperate to escape her abusive marriage spins an ever-growing web of deceit that spirals her insular logging town into chaos when she realizes her only chance for freedom is to frame her husband for a murder she commits.
- Winner (3rd Place): Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest (2018)
- Semifinalist: American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition (2018)
- Semifinalist: Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest (2018)
- Second Rounder: Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2019)
- Second Rounder: Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2018)
- Quarterfinalist: WeScreenplay TV Contest (2019)
- Quarterfinalist: BlueCat Screenplay Competition (2019)
- Quarterfinalist: The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (2019)
- Quarterfinalist: ScreenCraft Pilot Launch TV Writing Contest (2018)
- Quarterfinalist: Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest (2019)
SHERWOOD (One-Hour Pilot, Period Adventure/Comedy)
In this somewhat farcical twist on the tale of Robin Hood, Maid Marion assumes the mantle of the famed bowman in Lincoln green to save her beloved Robert of Locksley from the clutches of England’s petulant manchild, Prince John.
- Finalist: Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition (2020)
- Semifinalist: The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (2021)
- Semifinalist: Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Competition (2020)
- Second Round: Launch Pad Pilot Competition (2021)
- Quarterfinalist: ScreenCraft Comedy Competition (2021)
- Quarterfinalist: The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (2022)
- Quarterfinalist: RoadMap Writers JumpStart Writing Competition (2020)
SOL INVICTUS (One-Hour Pilot, Historical Action/Drama)
Eight would-be emperors plunge Rome into a nineteen-year civil war, but only one emerges victorious - reshaping the world in his image, introducing the divine right to rule, and paving the way for the Byzantine Empire. Based on the life of Constantine I.
- Finalist: Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship (2019)
- Semifinalist: BlueCat Screenplay Competition (2019)
- Second Rounder: Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2019)
- Quarterfinalist: Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest (2019)
THE WINDIGO (Feature, Period Gothic Horror)
In the spring of 1638, a half-Algonquin guide torn between his two cultures must discover the strength of true belief in order to survive when he leads two Jesuit priests into the Canadian wilderness, only to find themselves prey to a diabolical foe that haunts their souls as it hunts their lives: the Algonquin man-eating demon, the Windigo.
- Second Rounder: Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2019)
- Quarterfinalist: Shore Scripts Screenplay Contest (2019)