FILMMAKER AND SCREENWRITER

TV

NEO-WESTERN/ ANTHOLOGY SERIES. 

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30 MINUTE, 8 EPISODE, SINGLE CAMERA SERIES. 

2-3 SEASONS

LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO AND SANTA ROSA, CA.

• It's the year 2000, and Gianluca--a fast rising, gender non-conforming fashion designer in London--is returning to their Nonni's farm in the Bay Area for the first time in years to come out to them, and to get Nonna's approval to create a line of formal wear inspired by her designs.  Gianluca is unaware that a dispute has been brewing with a wealthy land developer over the first property their NONNI bought in the US. And Gianluca’s young, temperamental mother Teresa, a San Francisco sanitation worker, has been raising hell in response, stoking a private war that will change their lives forever.

*COVERFLY RED LIST-

TOP 22% 

#3 Western Television (Half Hour)

#17 Western in the past Month

#1 Western Television (Half Hour) in the past month

*2nd Rounder for Launch Pad Pilot Competition

 PILOT SCRIPT, PITCH DECK AVAILABLE TO READ.

TV

LOW BUDGET SCI-FI/DARK COMEDY.

30 MINUTE, 8 EPISODE, SINGLE CAMERA.

2-3 SEASONS.

LOCATION: NEW YORK CITY/TRI STATE AREA.

• Having grown unexpectedly fond of being human after almost 200 years of not quite getting it right, BOB--an extraterrestrial life form and Soldier of the Light (and Brooklyn's Best Dog Walker)--faces a harrowing decision when ordered to suddenly change their mission on Earth, and assassinate the leader of the Reptilian insurgency.  Even if it means the shattering of their perfect little queer Brooklyn life and little human heart, it MUST be done to prevent interstellar war from coming to Earth. At least that's what BOB's been told...

PILOT SCRIPT , PITCH DECK AVAILABLE TO READ.

TV

ABSURDIST/COMING OF AGE COMEDY

CO-WRITTEN/CREATED WITH NIDIA MEDINA 

(based on her play)

30 MIN, 8 EPISODE, SINGLE CAMERA.

2-3 SEASONS

LOCATION: A FAKE TOWN IN CONNECTICUT

• Tatty Bojangles is ready to get the hell out of middle school—her dad is a sock puppet, her hair is a tragedy, her future self is a disappointing loser, and her fairy godmother is relatively useless—and to make things worse: it’s picture day, and and she totally fuckin forgot.

PILOT SCRIPT, TREATMENT AVAILABLE.

*ORCHARD PROJECT EPISODIC LAB FINALIST

SHORT FILM

LOW BUDGET DARK COMEDY/SCI-FI. 5 MINUTES. 

• Rudi is ready to be mad chill about the imminent alien warhead about to obliterate the planet.  But their neighbor Bill is out for revenge on everyone who's ever wronged him--and Rudi never did return that rare edition of an F. Scott Fitzgerald classic...

*Coverfly Red List--Top 29%

*BIG APPLE FILM FESTIVAL SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

HONORABLE MENTION

SCRIPT/PITCH DECK AVAILABLE

SHORT FILM

DARK COMEDY/CRIME DRAMA. 15 MINUTES

LOCATION: PDX AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

• Aldo's got a little brother to raise, and Vinny, his childhood friend, has a hustle he hopes can get Aldo out of his financial bind. Never having ventured 20 miles beyond the Italian American enclave they grew up in San Francisco, Vinny and Aldo travel up to Portland, Oregon hoping to cash in on its early days of decriminalized drugs, and make good with a low level dealer named English Benny, who is looking for a connect that can guarantee pure, fentanyl free cocaine. But when Aldo panics on their journey north and hides their sample up his ass...nothing else goes according to plan.

SCRIPT/PITCH DECK AVAILABLE

SHORT FILM

DARK COMEDY. 15 MINUTES

LOCATION: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA--BAY AREA

• Gianni's Nonno is set on winning the local bowling league championship. And when he does, he vows to teach Gianni his effective, if controversial, straight shot, and pass down his lucky ball. But when Nonno loses to his rival, an American jingoist dipshit named Fred, he schemes a minor heist that he hopes will restore his dignity--even if it corrupts the lesson he'd hoped to teach his grandkid...

IN DEVELOPMENT

SHORT FILM 

DARK COMEDY/ B&W Short Film. 3 MINUTES

• Jax, a non-binary queer goth punk, is about to meet their short king crush in a cemetery for a first date. But will a jilted bride from some nearby hetero wedding fiasco ruin everything in her Madea sized rage...!?!

SCRIPT AVAILABLE

TV

QUEER/STONER/ADULT SWIM LATE NIGHT COMEDY. 

30 MIN, 10 EPISODE. ONGOING.

 FAUX VARIETY/FAKE PUBLIC ACCESS SHOW.

• For TWO decades, From the Basement of Pier’s Mother Giuseppina's Foccaceria in Burlingame, Ca, Pier Valentino’s: Show Without End!--a favorite among late night couch marauders (and alien life forms hidden among us)—has broadcast sometime between Midnight and 4am, every Monday and occasional Thursday, (after Barry Weatherjam’s Bagpipe and Kazoo Jamboree) to various Bay Area Public Access Channels and to homes across the country with Mighty Rabbit Ear Antennae. SO STAY TUNED!

PITCH DECK FOR SERIES,

 DEMO EPISODE/SEGMENTS AVAILABLE

FEATURE

Co-Screenwriter

Treatment, 2 Screenplay Drafts

*MULTIPLE HOWLROUND GRANT RECIPIENT. 

OPTIONED SCREENPLAY ADAPTATION OF AN AWARD WINNING PLAY by J. Nicole Brooks. 

Feature

Based in Portland, Oregon

A Queer, Neon-Noir Crime Drama

IN DEVELOPMENT. 

• Sofia--a former Mafia Capo from Genoa, Italy,  known still to most as Don Silvano Bruzzone--comes out of hiding to see about the disappearance of her estranged daughter, Mo, in modern day Portland, Oregon. Mo opened a bakery and queer & bipoc community space in PDX's Pearl District that offers tasty affordable food, books, classes, warmth from the cold,  and other resources for the underserved. But conflicts soon arose with corrupt police, landlords, and other criminal enterprises wishing for her to keep activism out of her business practices. And among the many things Mo inherited from her Mother, it was unflappability in her convictions, and a sharp tongue. Unfamiliar with the foreign landscape, Sofia forms an unusual bond with Olivia St. Josephine-- her daughter's wife and co-owner of their bakery, and Harry Collins--a retired cop who volunteers as the Bakery's security guard. Together, they scour a beautiful and depraved landscape that seems to exist off any discernible grid--and where corruption and progress go hand in hand--in hopes that Mo is still alive.

FEATURE 

Bay Area Based. Creature Feature/Horror

• It's the mid 90s, and there's a new principal at St. Augustine's Private Catholic, brother Benjamin Maltesta, known as a visionary among the Christian Brothers who run these schools in Northern California His goal: keep school shootings from ever happening on their campuses. Not by running government mandated drills, but by encouraging the adoption of new, radical social experiments among clashing students. But his origins are a mystery, his age as well. And he arrives at St Augustine proposing an already major change to the status quo--TWO homecoming dances. One for the popular kids, and the other for those deemed misfits and outsiders. The students are keen on this idea, to the surprise of suspicious faculty. The school's misfits and outsiders are led by a group of four queerdo pals in a band called Can't You Never Talk that covers obscure, raw punk music from all over the world. And they plan to rock the fuck out at Homecoming--on what might be their last performance together before their lead singer Drea starts college in January, much to the heartbreak of her pals, who were ready to try going professional.  But when Benjamin invites the leaders of the popular kids to meet him in his office to talk Homecoming plans--another layer of the experiment is revealed. And those willing to comply will be rewarded with eternal youth, privilege, and more. All this in the name of God, of course.  

IN DEVELOPMENT. 

SHORT FILMS (shot): 

NUTELLA (DIGITAL); OH BONDAGE, UP YOURS! (B&W, 16MM, SILENT)

SHORT FILM SCRIPTS: 

MAYO (a dark comedy/crime caper), END TIMES (a comedic sci-fi)

WEBSERIES: 

PIER VALENTINO'S: SHOW WITHOUT END! (ALL EPISODES AND SEGMENTS); 

2 EPISODES OF 

BULK 

BY C. JULIAN JIMINEZ AND DENEEN REYNOLDS KNOT.

THEATRE: 

EVERY LOVE STORY ENDS IN TEARS (by Nidia Medina, NYC FRINGE), ONE MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL, NY MADNESS, SHITFUCK RIPUPS (Written & Produced by Sarah Shaeffer), WORKSHOPS OF MY OWN PLAYS WITH THEATRE 167, NY MADNESS, NUYORICAN, THE TANK, FULLSTOP COLLECTIVE, AND OTHERS.

 LONDON FILM SCHOOL--1 TERM

MULTIPLE HOWLROUND GRANT RECIPIENT 

COVERFLY RED LIST RANKED-TOP 24%  

Launch Pad 2nd Round Placement

FOR MY TV SERIES PILOT: 

TERRITORIO

#5 Western TV Half-Hour

END TIMES, a short film, received an 

Honorable Mention in The Big Apple Film Festival's 2023 Screenplay Competition, 

and is on Coverfly's Red List. 

ORCHARD PROJECT EPISODIC LAB , 

AND 

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITING COMPETITION FINALIST. 

THEATRE RESIDENCIES: EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE, NUYORICAN POETS CAFE, GRANGE HALL CULTURAL CENTER., AND THE TANK, SO-FI FESTIVAL.

CREATOR OF ALL THINGS PIER VALENTINO!

ARTICLES FOR PULP MAG, THE KITCHEN OnSscreen, BrokenGlass 

SCREENWRITING/TV WRITING TEACHER/MENTOR--ANDREA CIANNAVEI.

-full length-

Private Catholic Mixtape '89-'01

You're (No) Good -or- A Priori A Posteriori

Pier Valentino's: SHOW WITHOUT END! (The Final Broadcast)

-short-

The Emperor I of Bensonhurst (and Parts of Bath Beach)

Soil Part 1 & 2

There Are Too Many Of Us

Emotional Labor

Penn Station Intergalatico 

PITCHED PLAYS (not written)

LUCKY M.E.

Over Ten Plays for One One Minute Play Festival