Screenplays

In The Worthies, a disgraced knight makes a deal with the devil to become king. When his devoted servant proves more worthy than him, his desperate quest for power leads to a devastating betrayal in a mystical garden where seasons change and reality bends.

Riders follows the comeback of a retired boxer still yearning for his abusive father’s validation until a punch-drunk hall-of-famer teaches him the importance of forgiveness over violence.

A former Navy SEAL returns home, in Backwoods, Louisiana, to save a dying childhood friend and protect a mysterious visitor's secret.

Orson Welles said of his first film, The Hearts of Age, “It wasn’t a film at all. It was a little joke one Sunday afternoon.” Here’s my short contemporary retelling of it — Hearts of Age 2.

Stageplays

Marx is a one-act play about the Marx Bros. turning their backs on Vaudeville and facing the motion pictures.

After a UFO crashes into a farm of Crawfish & Strawberries, a genius teenager must determine whether his babysitter is his soulmate or an extraterrestrial.

TV Pilots & Episodes

Set near the end of Opera’s mainstream popularity, the pilot of Prima Donna begins after the death of a golden-age Hollywood actor, sparking the lifelong rivalry between two opera sopranos: one his adopted Black daughter, the other his estranged White love child.

After Cheyenne’s show-stealing aria in Daliyah and Cheyenne’s tribute to their father, Cheyenne fights to remove herself from the typecasting roles of Black entertainers. Daliyah forges a letter in Cheyenne’s name for a role in the all-Black production of Porgy and Bess.

Aurie Romance is a teenage demi-goddess who loses her godlike powers and grows terminally ill. Her clueless father is instructed to locate the cure from an immortal family friend.