An all-female band is on the verge of a record deal when the lead singer is murdered. Secrets and sabotage reveal the price some will pay for a shot at fame and others who will try to destroy it.
Storm rolls in with a voice that wows the alcoholic band leader Hannah, securing her spot as the new lead singer. Hannah struggles with sobriety and the disappointment of her parents who bribe her to go back to medical school. The transgender piano player with a gambling problem has a bad vibe about Storm and doesn’t try to hide it. Mandy is worried about her roommate Lucy, who everyone thinks has run off with her latest boyfriend, when she finds an empty pregnancy test box and no mention of it in Lucy’s journal, she fears the worst. The drummer Taylor only wants to get married and have a baby but her controlling boyfriend Ethan has other plans. When Lucy’s body is discovered, everyone is a suspect as a troubled detective begins to peel back the layers of secrets. Left with the question of who killed Lucy, Hannah suspects she will be next after discovering someone has placed a tracking device on her car.
False Lashes was inspired the dramatic serial shows such as Desperate Housewives, Dallas, and Dynasty. With a modern update, this story explores how young women try to follow their dreams but are used and sabotaged by the men in their lives. They must learn to recognize the manipulation and overcome it to pave their own road to success.
Drama, Mystery | Television Pilot | 59 pages
After an attempted murder-suicide, a young woman must return to the polygamist community she escaped to make life and death decisions for her parents and the future of her autistic brother.
The inspiration for this story came as I was on a long road trip through Colorado and Utah. As I rode along the highways I could see run-down farms, many with multiple small homes, some set up in a circle. I began to think about the young girls that must live in these compounds and what their lives might be like. My research revealed that child marriage is allowed in forty-four of the United States and that in polygamist families it is common for men to marry girls as young as fourteen. While polygamy is illegal is most states, there are many communities that turn the other cheek to the crime. I was motivated to create a character that could be bold and rise above the life her culture expected from her. Birdie is a young woman who took a big risk to escape the only home she knew, only to be called back when her father shoots her mother and then himself.
Drama | Feature | 90 pages
A couple believe they are attending a weekend artist retreat but become part of a cannibalistic ritual.
Horror | Short | 15 pages
An uptight widow thinks her life ended with the death of her high school sweetheart until she has an epiphany on a bus ride with a tattoo artist, an actress, and a retired boxer now chauffeur.
Rom Com | Short | 10 pages
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The Dorothy Starr Story
Born in 1908 to a young unwed mother in Seattle and thrust into the shadowy world of black-market adoption, Dorothy Starr defies 20th-century expectations by forging her own path, from self-taught pianist to opera hopeful, and ultimately to a celebrated music archivist in San Francisco, while searching for the family and sense of belonging she was denied at birth.
Based on the true life of Dorothy Starr
Bio Pic | Feature