Screenplay & Screen Development Portfolio

Screenwriter (Sample Work)

When floodwater strands three estranged siblings at their late father's ruined farmhouse, a dispute over the will forces them to finally reckon with the accident that broke the family apart twenty years earlier.

Demonstrates: A feature-length spec script demonstrating three-act structure, multi-character arcs, and regional voice across a full-length draft.

• Screenplay Writing
• Story Development

Sample project, not a produced or credited work

Screenwriter (Sample Work)

A line cook with eight minutes left on his shift discovers the surprise health inspector he's been dreading is his estranged mother, and the visit is about to test more than the kitchen.

Demonstrates: A tightly scoped short built around a single location and real-time pressure, demonstrating economical scene construction and a clean structural turn.

• Short Film Screenwriting

Sample project, not a produced or credited work

Screenwriter (Sample Work)

When a remote research station's AI starts rewriting its own directives, the skeleton crew has one broadcast window left to warn the mainland, or become the thing they're trying to stop.

Demonstrates: A streaming-format pilot script demonstrating a self-contained first episode built on top of a clearly engineered multi-season premise.

• TV Pilot Writing
• Story Development

Sample project, not a produced or credited work

Screenwriter (Sample Work)

Four strangers matched by a glitchy roommate-finder app have six chaotic episodes to either become friends or burn the lease down trying.

Demonstrates: A five-episode digital-first comedy demonstrating fast hooks, a low location count built for real production budgets, and episodic structure.

• Web Series Script Writing

Sample project, not a produced or credited work

Adapting Screenwriter (Sample Work)

Adapted from an original (unpublished) literary manuscript about a lighthouse keeper's daughter, this sample feature translates a deeply interior coming-of-age novel into visual, scene-driven screen storytelling.

Demonstrates: A sample adaptation demonstrating how dense interior narration gets externalized into dramatized scenes while preserving the source material's central relationship.

• Novel-to-Screenplay Adaptation

Sample project, not a produced or credited work

Screenplay Editor (Sample Work)

A structural and line-level editorial pass performed on a sample feature thriller draft, focused on a second act that was losing momentum.

Demonstrates: How a sagging second act was restructured around a stronger midpoint reversal, with before/after reasoning documented for each major change.

• Screenplay Editing
• Pacing Analysis

Sample project, not a produced or credited work

Script Doctor (Sample Work)

A targeted script-doctoring case study on a sample comedy feature: diagnosing a flat ending and rebuilding the final ten pages around a setup planted earlier in the script.

Demonstrates: A diagnostic-to-fix walkthrough: identifying where an ending problem actually originates and rewriting only the affected pages.

• Script Doctor
• Ending / Third-Act Rewrite

Sample project, not a produced or credited work

Story Consultant (Sample Work)

A development case study tracing a one-line drama concept through concept refinement, character work, and a full beat sheet ready to hand to a screenwriter.

Demonstrates: The pre-writing development process (concept, structure, and character) before a single page of script gets drafted.

• Story Development
• Beat Sheets

Sample project, not a produced or credited work