Adapted Intellectual Property
Here are some of my works of fiction that I have already adapted for the screen:
WIVES WITHOUT BORDERS (Novel + Pilot + Pitch Deck): An edgy, comedic, spiritually-infused novel (Women’s Fiction 85,000 words) about a romantically challenged, single woman (Maddie, 39+) on a quest for a husband and a family who poses as a psychic medium to meet eligible widowers. After she falls for one of the men in her grief group, she discovers that she actually can see dead people, but then she can’t stop seeing them! All hell breaks loose. Literally. This rift between realms allows some unsavory ‘Wise Guys’ access to Maddie, putting her life in danger. Now she needs the deceased wives as much as they need her. An unlikely friendship develops between Maddie and her new lover’s deceased wife, Jessie (35) who claims that he killed her. Even though Maddie isn’t sure if Jessie is there to warn/help her or to derail her new romance, Jessie is the one who risks the most to keep Maddie safe.
Maddie must reinvent (or reincarnate) herself in this next chapter of her life and is forced to move back to Chicago to live with her Femme Fatale mother, Gypsy as she confronts her chaotic and inappropriate childhood, Maddie embraces her newfound ability to reach into the energetic realm and looks for answers and wisdom to help her to recover from the past and to create a bright future. As Maddie and the other deceased wives make soulful connections in this feminist, metaphysical romp, they illuminate the power of collaboration and compassion, which helps them resolve their pasts and evolve their souls.
AWARDS/ACCOLADES:
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards Season 7 Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters - Genre Screenplay Competition 2023 Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters - Genre Screenplay Competition 2022 Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition 2019
PEARLS (Feature Film) Semi-finalist (top 20) in ZOETROPE screenplay competition 2020
Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2021
ELECTRIC LAUGHTER (Novel + Feature Film): ELECTRIC LAUGHTER: A gifted, female cellist (40+) who's suffers Synesthesia (a brain anomaly that fuses her senses of sight and sound ) falls in love with a brilliant neurologist and the inventor of Electric Laughter (a sophisticated, watch-like device that triggers laughter in the brain). They split up due to an unfortunate situation, which involves his public double. When his public double gets murdered during a televised parade, he goes into hiding believing that his life and hers is in danger. He emerges five years later to see her play with the Symphony, but before they can reunite up close, he’s arrested for the murder of his double, a crime he didn’t commit. The only other person who knew about the arrangement was his mentor, a man of questionable integrity and immense power and wealth who is trying to get him proven insane and committed to an asylum to save his life. She joins forces with an elderly South American woman with roots as a shaman to enhance her clairvoyance and uncover the truth that will set him free.