Documentary Storytelling

    

 

As a documentary filmmaker, I use the tools of dramatic writing to shape, critique, and analyze nonfiction media. More recently, I've been writing fictional (or fictionalized) plays and screenplays and working to get projects off the ground.


 

SCREENWRITING


Inside Story

Drama. Treatment for feature-length film about a young Zambian soccer star who becomes infected with HIV, intended as information/entertainment to bring culturally-neutral information about the science of HIV/AIDS to a pan-African audience.  Currently being developed by the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership with partners in South Africa and elsewhere. (Credited as consultant; project is in development.)

 

Skylark

Drama: Finalist, Nantucket Film Festival Screenwriting Competition

Public reading, New York Women in Film & Video, New York, New York

Finalist, Sundance Filmmakers Lab. Optioned for feature development, winter 2002.

 

Playing for China

Drama, based on the autobiography, Son of the Revolution, by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro. Drama.

 

Big Bang

Comedy, based on the science of love.

 

The Moons of Jupiter

Comedy. Finalist, America's Best Television competition.

 

Additional dramatic projects in development, two of which are based on books optioned for adaptation.

 

Former member, Harvard Square Scriptwriters.

 


 

PLAYWRITING


Faith

Comedy

2M, 2F

Two acts/intermission

 

SYNOPSIS: Elaine is a historical novelist, stymied as she attempts to explore the complex relationship between playwright Henrik Ibsen and Laura Kieler, his protégé and the real-life model for Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House. The issues of religion, honor, and forgiveness that inform Elaine’s research find present-day parallels when she accidentally reunites with a former boyfriend, Kyle, who is now a Christian fundamentalist about to buy her home.

 

 

Tuesday Morning

Drama

1M, 1F

Short

 

SYNOPSIS: An ordinary day, until everything two parents thought they knew about each other -- and their son -- comes to a violent end.

 

 

Distance Learning

Comedy

1M, 1F

Short

 

SYNOPSIS: The tale of a professor, his doctoral student, and the elderly, reclusive author on whom she's an expert -- or is it the other way around?

 

 

 

Other:

 

Late Transitional Man (full length)

Semi-finalist, L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Competition

 

Skylark (full length)

Finalist, New Plays in America Festival

Public reading, Westbrook College in association with Portland Stage Company, Portland, Maine

 

Zero Hour (short)

Public reading, The Room, New Georges, New York, New York

 

Pine (10-minute)

Finalist, Lamia Ink! competition

 

Ibsen in Ten Minutes (comedy)

Reading, Goddard College

 


 

 

 

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