2024 Script Writing Samples
Spec Pilots:
Fargo Spec Pilot: The Butter Self
Logline: Set in the “Fargo” universe in 1983, a maple syrup magnate makes a deal with a Bonnie and Clyde-like couple to kidnap his former pageant winner wife, but things get messy when their bull-headed son attempts to blackmail his father for his birthright.
Original Pilots:
Half Hour/Hour-Long Single Camera Dramedy Pilot: Potential
Logline: Running low on their son's game show winnings, a pair of dysfunctional parents dump their financial responsibility onto their hapless kids in order to chase the American dream.
Think a really dark and demented “Malcolm in the Middle”.
Hour-Long Single Camera Genre Pilot: Occult de Sac
Logline: After making a deal with the devil, a scrappy suburbanite asks him to fix her backfiring powers, but when he refuses, she breaches their agreement and doses her two neighbors, a veteran with a disability and a doctor turned stay-at-home mom, with the magic.
Think “Good Girls” meets “Practical Magic” with intersectional feminism.
Half Hour Animated Comedy Pilot: The Gilded Age
Logline: In turn-of-the-century Manhattan, a plucky, non-binary orphan tries to impress their new guardian, a money-hungry con man, but when the schemer sells the child in order to fund a treasure hunt, they both come to realize they'll need each other to get what they want.
Think “Rick and Morty” meets “Paper Moon” with a satirical bend.
Half Hour Animated Sci-Fi Comedy Pilot: EveryEarth
Logline: When the goody two-shoes leader of an inter-Earth committee leaves his handbook on one of the worlds they oversee, he and his team of misfits will have to break the rules to keep their organization together.
Think “The Office” meets “Rick and Morty” with more interdimensional fun.
Half Hour Dramedy Pilot: Personal
Logline: Struggling with her mom's medical bills and a dark family history, an ambitious Latina assistant dreams of becoming an agent, but when her shallow 'girlboss' boss holds her back, she'll stop at nothing to get what Hollywood owes her.
Think “Barry” meets “You” with a streak of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Half Hour Action Drama Pilot: Lil Fuck Up
Logline: After killing her ex-girlfriend in a hit gone wrong, a loner assassin and her personified id will have to reconnect with the spies she burned years ago in order to uncover who set her up.
Think “Killing Eve” meets “Wilfred” but gayer.
Half Hour Comedy Pilot: The House Band
Logline: After losing control of his masters, an ego-driven solo artist starts his second act by opening his own restaurant/bar, but when his house band goes belly up, he must replace them by making amends with the bandmate he stole songs from over a decade ago.
Think “Girls5Eva” meets “Cheers” with a little bit of soul.
Original Features:
Dramedy Feature: “Paper Nautilus”
Logline: An empty nester and her cynical sister are confronted with their own family history when their long estranged, hippie mother shows up at their dad’s Shiva, stealing his ashes and fleeing with her gay, millennial granddaughter. As they follow her on a road trip to the Poconos to scatter his remains, the women discover the indelible mark they’ve left on each other.
Inspired by a true story, think “Little Miss Sunshine” meets “Eat, Pray, Love”.