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Writing Projects

Screenwriting

Dancer in Sunset

Bodies Never Lie

Feature

After her ex-boyfriend threatens to kill her, a teenage ballet dancer attends an elite conservatory hoping to win a scholarship to a prestigious dance school and escape him. But she must learn that while dance is her salvation, it is also a weapon that empowers her to tell her story in a way words never could.

Campfire

Pilot​

When the director of a hundred-year-old summer camp for children of the Tri-State area’s elite makes a series of bad financial decisions that might close the camp, a group of overzealous yet scatter-brained counselors plot to save their jobs, the summer, and the family they’ve created.

Austin Film Festival 2023 Second Rounder

Rocky Rapids

A Little Stone

Pilot

Rebel, actress, spy, and promoter of revolution, Maud Gonne had a life all her own, years before W.B. Yeats made her his muse. After the death of her father, Maud is remanded to her uncle’s care in London. She refuses to live on any terms but her own and hatches a plan to assert her financial independence in the midst of social unrest and the burgeoning fight for Irish liberation

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Spec Scripts

The Witcher (Netflix)

As enemies—monstrous, magical and merely human—close in, Ciri must decide whether her personal need to protect her found family outweighs the needs of the Continent she was prophesied to either save or destroy.

Plays

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nothing & no one

Play

You may have heard the myths about Helen of Troy, the woman who launched a thousand ships. But what if Helen never loved Paris? What if she never loved Menelaus either? This play questions how much we truly know about one of the most infamous women in the world.

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Climbing Annapurna

Play

The daughter of professional mountain climbers, Peri must decide what risks to take in her own life as she prepares to leave for college.

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Play

Inspired by Celtic legend, this three-act tragedy chronicles the rise to power of a young queen Medb, and in the process, humanizes a complicated and contested mythic figure who represents the struggle between fate and desire.

February Spring

Play

Outside of a small Ukrainian village, Olena Lomachenko works as a "Railroad lady". When the railway consolidates its routes, rendering Olena's job obsolete, her children and granddaughter attempt to convince her to leave behind the only life she's known and move to the city.

Railway Tracks

Beware The Sky:
The Kennedy Family Story

Chapbook

In this expanding collection, the Kennedy family's dynasty is explored in relation to ancient myth, modern politics, and the rumored curse that continues to plague the family to this day.

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Collaborations

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The Next Run

with Kara Clemmenson


Screenplay

Following the tragic death of her older brother, a disimpassioned law student wanders through life detached from reality and must learn to regain control of her own narrative before grief consumes her.

Marwood

with Kara Clemmenson

TV Pilot

Harper Stevens starts college at the prestigious Marwood College and must learn to take risks as she discovers who she wants to be.

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with Artemis Alliance Productions, LLC

Web Series

This musical web-series follows an unlikely team of women in purgatory as they fight to reach heaven and examine their own morality.

Love Me Not

with Kara Clemmenson

Screenplay

Inspired by Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

At her cousin's fairytale wedding festivities, cynical human rights lawyer Beatrice Anthony-Lowe navigates a contentious relationship with the charming bestselling author Benedict Taylor. Throughout the wedding weekend, secrets are revealed that change the dynamics between family, lovers and friends.

Woman Typing

A Selection of Original Poems

Editorial Work

"A Word of Advice"

By Jo Richardson

I served as a story editor for "A Word of Advice" from the anthology Fix Your Crown (Literary Designs Publishing).

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