SHORT FILMS:
NUTELLA (DIGITAL); OH BONDAGE, UP YOURS! (B&W, 16MM, SILENT)
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
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
Over Ten Plays for One One Minute Play Festival
I create genre and hybrid genre TV Series and Films, and I like to think of myself as a queer futurist! I love dark comedy, raw emotion, high stakes, and emotionally rooted narratives.. I love bold, imperfect, tragicomic human beings and circumstances. I love narratives that can be grounded, and heightened. I love liminal space. My worlds are boldly diverse, queer saturated, femme forward, muscular and tender, multi-lingual and multi-generational, and break down societal norms with an irreverent and passionate wrecking ball. My goal is to elevate and evolve genre storytelling, and to place characters and circumstances in the forefront of stories in which they've been--if included at all--often sidelined, stereotyped, and ridiculed. My work is a lot like me: punk, queer, and geeky. It's loving, but always has a bite. It is both familiar and alien. It is emotional, and cerebal. It is serious, and not so serious. It believes that silliness can be as powerful an act of resistance as any other, but it's not afraid to rage and scream against a world full of broken systems, broken dreams, suffering, and cruelty.
NEO-WESTERN/HYBRID ANTHOLOGY SERIES. 3 SEASONS.
30 MINUTE, 8 EPISODE, SINGLE CAMERA SERIES.
TAKES PLACE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND SANTA ROSA, CA.
OUTLINE, PILOT SCRIPT, PITCH DECK AVAILABLE TO READ.
SCI-FI/DARK COMEDY. MULTIPLE SEASON NARRATIVE.
30 MINUTE, 8 EPISODE, SINGLE CAMERA.
TAKES PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY/TRI STATE AREA.
OUTLINE, PILOT SCRIPT , PITCH DECK AVAILABLE TO READ.
CO-WRITTEN/CREATED WITH NIDIA MEDINA (based on her play)
ABSURDIST/COMING OF AGE COMEDY. MULTIPLE SEASONS.
30 MIN, 8 EPISODE, SINGLE CAMERA.
OUTLINE, PILOT SCRIPT, TREATMENT AVAILABLE.
*ORCHARD PROJECT EPISODIC LAB FINALIST
QUEER/STONER/ADULT SWIM LATE NIGHT EXISTENTIAL COMEDY.
30 MIN, 10 EPISODE. FAUX VARIETY SHOW.
PITCH DECK AND DEMO EPISODE/SEGMENTS AVAILABLE
IN DEVELOPMENT.
SCRIPT ASSISTANT.
MULTIPLE HOWLROUND GRANT RECIPIENT.
OPTIONED SCREENPLAY ADAPTATION OF AN AWARD WINNING PLAY.
PIER is a tragi-comic character that I have layed on Stage, in VarietyComedy shows, and on camera as a webseries that I write, shoot, direct, and cut.
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MULTIPLE APPEARANCES AS PIER VALENTINO AT SHAWN RANDALL'S SYMPHONICS LIVE AT BOWERY POETRY CLUB, AND ECHT'S FEAR/LOVE AND 61LOCAL.
PIER VALENTINO's SHOW WITHOUT END! (THE FINAL BROADCAST)
and
PIER VALENTINIO'S IMAGINARY FRIEND CABARET
WERE PRESENTED AT SO-FI FESTIVAL, THE TANK AND GRANGE HALL CUTLRUAL CENTER IN 2018-2019.
*Currently being developed into a TV series
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