Short Screenplays:

Names on a Ground: (Dramatic Comedy) A hilarious, sad, and personal encounter of a mortician, two teenagers, an ex-girlfriend and young dying man all in the cemetery. A semifinalist entry in the 2005 American Gem Screenplay Competition and part of the Deviantart Short Film Contest.(Completed).

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Recital: (Dramatic Comedy) A teenage boy copes with stage fright during his piano recital. 2nd place 2002 in the Drexel High School Ten-Page Screenplay Contest (Completed).

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Original Screenplays:

Black Wednesday: (Espionage Thriller) After the death of his estranged father, 19 year old Jack Sines uncovers his dad's past in an FBI counterintelligence program and struggles to find out who killed him. With a nuclear core gone missing and a double agent mentor, Renee Harper, by his side, Jack tries to piece together a web of deceit before someone kills him. (Completed)

Deuces Wilde: (Comedy) Stumped during an investigation of a slick card cheating ring, two agents of the Nevada Gaming Commission look to the aid of Nathan Wilde, the reluctantly broke ex-boyfriend of member Sidney Descartes. Nathan discovers Sidney’s scheme involving this year’s World Series of Poker and is drawn into her plot. Should Nathan play to regain his past flame and the prize or should he ‘fold’ her over to authorities? (Completed)

The Deadlines: (Dramatic Comedy) Sarte's “Les Jeux Sont Fait” meets “Run Lola Run”. After fatally shot in the head by his wife, newly-wed Pierre Landon gets a rare second chance in life. To get it back, he has six hours to prevent six people from making their life changing deadlines. But is he willing to ruin these desperate people whose lives intertwine with his own? (Writing)

The Inferno: (Thriller) When a remote high-school catholic boarding school finds several of their students murdered during a freak snowstorm, 14-year old Beatrice discovers some grave connections between the murders to a past serial murder case, its town's witchcraft history and the demonic nature of her current book report on Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’. With the faculty covering up blood, the students caught in a hysteria and an escaped serial killer on the loose, Beatrice must find the cause, man or demonic, before it gets to her.

Deuces Wilder: (Comedy, loose sequel) Four years after Deuces Wilde, Sean Wilder, former member of a card cheating ring, is trapped and frustrated with the ‘domestic life’ until he meets Sidney, his ex-girlfriend and con partner. Lured by the casino life once again, Sean heads for Vegas where the World Series of Poker commences. Together, they are unbeatable—until Sean’s wife, poker champ, joins the tables.

The Butler: (Comedy): Mallory Jane, former teenage actress, raging alcoholic, bankruptcy victim and tabloid favorite, is only a few days close from her twenty first birthday--and her parents' inheritance. But before the royalties reach her grasp, her grandmother is maliciously kidnapped along with the papers! Mallory is determined to make the journey to save her Grandmother and get the money "she deserves". But with grandma's butler (a young, absent-minded and aspiring musician named Fred) by her side, Mallory is about to brace herself for some hilarious complications and some important lessons about life and entitlement.

The Baker Street Irregulars: (Dramatic Comedy/mystery) It's present day London, England at the annual "Sherlock Holmes Society" meet and someone has just been murdered. Now its up to "Will" Wilson Gray to rescue his missing fiancee and solve his was-to-be father-in-law's murder...with the help of the a descendant of the Great Detective himself.

The Institution: (Paranormal Thriller) The Ring meets Girl, Interrupted. Alice is a seventeen year old recovering junkie recovering who's sent to one of the best juvenile psychiatric wards in the nation. But when several phantoms and dead patients show up, how can Alice prove everything she sees and escape death if no one believes her and the institution is covering it up?

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Writing projects/pitches/ideas with some writing samples available

On his American Secret Service: Essay on the celluloid history of James Bond and his involvement with the Americans

Why Homework is Bad: Essay on the uneffectiveness of homework, and how it can be bad to your child's health.

Essays on various topics. Downloads coming soon.