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Screenplays, plays, books, articles. If it's words on a page (or screen, or stage), I write it...
TV/Film Projects
Berlin Nomad
TV Series (in development - Free Your Mind GmbH) - With the “American Dream” failing him, an LA screenwriter turns his life upside down to follow the “European Dream.” He moves to Berlin to write the next act that is his life.
Neverland and Company
TV Series (in development - La Belle Affaire Productions - France) - A reimagining of Peter Pan in pre-World War II Paris.
Soul For Sale
Comedy - A down-on-his-luck man is offered a half million dollars by his friend to marry his friend's horrible ex-wife.
Kid Cop
Family Comedy - When a series of petty crimes hits his small hometown, 11-year old Peter decides to investigate the crimes. Brainstorm Media - producers
@Santa
Holiday Comedy (Winner - Holiday Screenplay Contest) - When the elves fear that Santa has become irrelevant in today's world, they hire a hotshot CEO to turn things around.
The Red Diamond
Comedy-Suspense - A young couple visits his grandmother in England. When she mysteriously disappears, they discover she might be a spy for the British government.
Boy Oh Boy Oh Girl
Romantic Comedy - Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," a young woman poses as a man to save her struggling business. When a man offers her a golden opportunity, she is forced to maintain the charade.
River City
Dramedy - When a young man discovers that his depressed hometown’s famous son is buying property to restore its former glory, the hopeful residents' lives get turned upside down.
Mae December
Romantic Comedy - When an up and coming Hollywood agent is assigned to represent a difficult, aging diva, it leads to an unlikely and volatile romance.
Story of the Year
Family Comedy - Young Joey, son of well-to-do and neglectful parents, invites the President for Thanksgiving dinner. When the President accepts, a media frenzy ensues causing Joey to run away from home.

Plays
10/9
Romantic Comedy (2nd Place - MRT New Play Competition) - Two single female Londoners plan an apartment swap with two single male New Yorkers on the date 10/9. To Americans, that is October 9th. To most of the world, it's September 10th, the date the women show up. Circumstances force them all to co-habitate, causing sparks to fly.
Boy Oh Boy Oh Girl
Stage version of screenplay
The Manuscript
Drama - When a man finds his father's old book manuscript, he must work to put aside the anger he has towards his distant father and accept the man for who he was.

Book
Picture


The Ensuite Life: Traveling the World and Avoiding the Toilet at the End of the Hall

We were young and carefree, traveling solo with a pack on our back and sharing a room with seven other people with the toilet in the hallway. It was clean. Or, at least it was at eight o'clock in the morning before anyone used it. But we didn't mind. We were seeing the world...

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