Projects in Development
Lucy Gone Wild
A Comedy Feature script
Logline:
A caretaking millennial decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail to find herself and turn her life around, but she'll soon discover that wearing shapewear and standing-during-commercial-breaks won't prepare her for either the trail or the work that true change demands.
Lucy Gone Wild, is a low budget personal tale exploring parts of my life being a young caretaker to a mom with a rare disease. The film also dismantles the alluring fantasies of wilderness movies. Turns out nature can be far more brutal and far less, “Eat, Pray, Love”.
- Out of around 9,000 entries, Lucy Gone Wild was a PAGE finalist earning a spot in the top 10 of all comedy scripts.
"... It's not easy to keep the audience engaged in basically a one-woman piece where she walks a lot, but this script succeeds."
- After receiving great coverage, Lucy Gone Wild and Abigail was selected as part of Ink Tip's "Get Repped Now" for scripts placing in the top 2%.
Feedback:
"This is a wonderful story. It’s charming, silly, sweet, moving, and refreshingly authentic, raw, and real. It takes a great look at the difference between idealism and reality. The main character is beautifully flawed, funny, and ends up being inspiring in a completely different way than she had hoped. The writer does a great job of inverting the basic wholesome nature/adventure tale, and audiences will be able to identify and connect with that even more. It’s a well-written story that seems simple but is quite nuanced. If the writer designed this as a vehicle to star in, she did a great job, and this was a good choice. This is a smart movie with heart and humor and is well written."
- Lucy Gone Wild got a "recommend" from WeScreenPlay screenplay coverage.
Feedback:
“LUCY GONE WILD is a standout script. The dialogue is fantastic and laugh-out-loud funny. Given the strength of its premise and the unexpected emotional depth bubbling beneath the well-executed comedy of Lucy's journey, I actually cried as her journey came to a close."
- The script has been the 11th most popular comedy script on the Red List.
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Becoming Miss Santa
A Christmas Comedy Feature script
Logline: When her jovial Grandpa gets injured and can’t play Santa Claus at a party, a Christmas-hating millennial is forced to replace him and accidentally becomes a feminist icon as the first female Santa.
**Becoming Miss Santa is a Christmas dark comedy. It’s Miracle on 34th Street meets Little Miss Sunshine.
It is actually based on my real Grandpa who I always knew as... Santa Claus. During Christmas he played “Santa” on pizza boxes and at parties, and throughout the rest of the year, he wore red clothes and suspenders. Pair that with his white hair, beard, big belly, and jovial laugh... even in
July, kids would be joyously running up to him, yelling out “it’s Santa!”
As a child, having your Grandpa be “Santa” came with an overwhelming amount of pride... but also pain. There was significant tragedy happening in our family and my Grandpa had a very hard time confronting and dealing with it, so instead he leaned into his persona as Santa to help
himself and others escape... which as it turns out, can only work for so long.
Hey Abigail
A single camera dark comedy
Abigail previously worked with legendary TV executive Fred Silverman on a technology launch with her digital brand, Hey Abigail. Fred then wanted to develop a sitcom starring Abigail. He developed a traditional 1/2 hour sitcom. It was pitched to ABC. With Fred's blessing, Abigail has partnered with a young and established female writer to help her develop the concept and completely rework the project making it modern, authentic, and reflective of the current climate.
Our show is...
HEY ABIGAIL. A single-camera dark comedy about an Instagram micro
influencer on the brink of thirty with a female fandom, who makes a
mathematical error at a women’s march that suddenly makes her America’s
most hated woman.
It’s the digital version of the Comeback. In The Comeback Valerie Cherish
was desperate to make a TV comeback after, “aging out” around forty.
Abigail is forced to make a comeback before turning... Thirty.
But there is no TV crew here. Instead Abigail is forced to trust Youtube’s
mega star documentarian (ALA Shane Dawson) to show her comeback
and turn her image around.
Abigail tested the premise and character (with it obviously being amped up for the stage) at the Groundlings in front of a live audience. Feel free to watch the response below. Also included is the piece rewritten and filmed to be apart of the pitch packet. (Password: apology)
The List
The List is a 23-minute horror-comedy short film with potential to be developed as a series or built out as a feature film.
It stars:
- Adam Hagenbuch (Series regular on Fuller House)
- Steven Anthony Lawrence (Childhood Disney star for his role of Beans on Even Stevens)
- Arielle Hader (Recently had a recurring arc on Grey's Anatomy for the gender non-binary character of Toby)
Below are a few short raw clips from the film.