All scripts are complete and registered with the Writers Guild of America
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TV Pilot | Comedy Drama Crime
(50 mins)
A cosmopolitan, fifty-something Garda Detective is posted from bustling Dublin to a small rural town – where murders abound.
BUT THEN THERE WERE TWO
Feature Film | Thriller
Twenty-six years after being imprisoned separately for a terrible childhood crime, a desperate woman seeks out her estranged identical twin to help her escape her abusive millionaire husband
“A very twisty, complex-yet-commercial thriller”
– The Black List
- Official Selection, 2021 Thriller/Suspense Film & Writing Festival (with title “Phoenix”)
SHELL GAME
Feature Film | Thriller
A fortysomething assassin must choose who to trust and who to kill when her lover sends her to murder her former best friend, the sister assassin who betrayed her.
“A highly commercial – though blisteringly intelligent – story ”
– The Black List
- Semi-Finalist in the 2021 NYC International Screenplay Awards
- Finalist in the 2020 Feel The Reel International Film Festival
- Quarter Finalist in the 2019 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
- Finalist in the 2019 Breaking Walls Thriller Screenplay Contest
A CHRISTMAS WEDDING
Feature Film | Romantic Comedy
A strait-laced accountant’s fairy-tale Christmas wedding is thrown into jeopardy when her bohemian holiday fling turns up to declare his undying love – three days before she walks down the aisle.
“A joy of a script with a vivid, hard-not-to-love world and top notch dialogue”
– The Black List
- Winner of the 2020 WriteMovies Romance and Comedy Award
- Semi-Finalist in the 2020 NYC International Screenplay Awards
- Finalist in the 2020 Feel The Reel International Film Festival
MEMORY BOX
Feature Film | Thriller
After a deadly virus has swept across the world, the pharmaceutical industry is making billions producing antiretroviral drugs to keep infected people alive. Until a dying scientist develops a cure and entrusts it to the one person he knows he can trust – the estranged school-teacher daughter who hates him.
“A wonderful twist on the traditional thriller formula”
– The Black List
- Placed Third in the 2020 Feel The Reel International Film Festival
MARYPATCHEEN
Must Die
Short Film, Comedy (10 minutes)
A bitter Irishman builds a time machine to go back and stop the woman who wrote the misery memoir that blighted his schooldays. Will a visiting American be tempted to follow his example?
“Great comedic timing and strong character arcs help to create a story worth telling.”
– Chicago Screenplay Awards
Quarter Finalist in the 2019 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
Finalist in the Chicago Screenplay Awards 2019
Semi-finalist in the September 2019 Rome Prisma Awards (Best Short Screenplay)
Quarter-finalist in the 2017 Page International
Screenplay Competition (Short Film Scripts)
