Completed Screenplays and Pilot Teleplays
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All scripts are available to read online.
Please contact me for more info. Thanks. All scripts are registered with the Copyright Office (Library of Congress) and the WGA West.
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Blackbird
This cover of “Blackbird” by Black music artist Dionne Farris captures the 1920’s popular musical style with a blues groove.
Bye Bye Blackbird
First published in 1925, this song was covered by Black music artist James Govan (died July 18, 2014) and is featured on the “Wanted: The FAME Recordings” album, recorded in 1972 but not released until 2013.
“Keeping Races in Their Places”, a book by Anthony W. Orlando, examines the history of the public policies that created the “dividing lines that shaped the American city”.
Black Bird
Bessie Coleman had a dream. She was going to be the first black woman to fly – she was the only one with an International pilot’s license. She was a trailblazer who fought to succeed despite racism and sexism to achieve that goal in the 1920s.
El Muerto
A gun-wielding spectral rider comes seeking revenge when a young bridegroom is burned alive.
Hickok and Holmes
When Sherlock Holmes falls into a coma, his older, smarter, more slothful brother, Mycroft, a reluctant hero, pursues Moriarty into the American west, where he forms an unholy alliance with Wild Bill Hickok in the hope of saving his younger sibling.
Maggie Rose
Here’s the Good v. Evil prequel that got the horror started.
Good v. Evil
After the discovery of unexplained human remains in a shuttered maternity home, a young couple is targeted by an unleashed ancient evil.
Human Race Reboot
After the drilling ban in Antarctica expires, a new discovery with the power to reengineer life threatens the existence of the human race.
Pistils and Pistols
When a Chicago Mob rival firebombing burns Ward’s Flowers to the ground on the eve of landing its biggest customer ever, the BFF gay-straight cousin owners opt to relocate the business to Miami, not realizing their Mob-related problems have followed them there.