Introduce Yourself

Hi, Marie Hatten. Happy New Year! Congratulations on your wins! You can do this. I hope you have an incredible new year and more wins!

2025 - Learned so much this year, some of which on Stage 32

- Four TV Pilots written, Series designed and pitched. Happy, even though the 30-minute comedy series was resoundingly rejected, three others are still in there, with producers

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- Two movies written and pitching, one of which is, in my opinion, incredible, both still with producers. The incredible one is my first ever Romantic Comedy.

- Have three other projects in planning for 2026.

HAPPY NEW YEAR - NEVER GIVE UP.

You had an incredible year, David Taylor! Congratulations! Hope you sell your TV series and screenplays! Happy New Year! Exactly. Never give up!

Happy New Year, Maurice! My goals for 2026 are to write some new songs, write new comedy material, rewrite some comedy material I already have and I'm going to make it a goal this summer to do my own comedy show. I feel like it's a lot to expect of myself and I'm even asking myself, can I do all of this?

2025 - I wrote a short film screenplay without AI assistance and it took three months (April 1st-July 25th) and realized the play was too long to be called a short film screenplay.

Since October 2025, I joined Stage 32 and decided to wrote screenplays with AI assistance and finished screenplays within two or three days since the success of AI assistance.

By November 2025, I wrote 11 screenplays. 7 TV Pilots, and 4 Short Films. Three weeks ago, I wrote a Christmas short film screenplay that is meant to be a TV film. But within the last two weeks, I aborted the "Zoo Girls P.I." concept but not giving it up though. I let the AI to create visual design bibles in order to make my animation description complete.

Two animation bibles: One is called Mobia Studios where the design and world-building is fully bipedal anthropomorphic animal animations that is a human skeletal structural version of Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Game/IDW Comic Book adaptation) and human heights and helps out kid-friendly or family-friendly concepts like "City Knights", "Starbright", "Typhoon", and "The S-Guards", adult animation concepts like "Compass & Rose Agency", "The Randall Job", Unlike most adult animations where is satirical, dark humor, cynicism, and gory violence. My animation will have none of those factors and made the tone brighter and positive. And even further expansions like feature-length film movies that are solely focused on family like "Ben & Laura" and "The Terrific Trio" they're both superhero movies and short films like "The Inner Beauty", "My Superhero Girlfriend", and "The Glow Up."

The other is a called Mobia Echo where the design and world-building of animal-shifting animation (Like a male is 6'1" human, he is a 6'1" anthropomorphic dog like a German shepherd) are called "Echoes". That kind of animation would help "Zoo Girls P.I." nourish and other shows like "The K-9 Dummies" and "The Divorcees". These kind of TV concepts are all adult animations but like I said, brighter tones and heartfelt positively. Also, a feature-length film on the animation should be family-friendly slice of life or Fantasy or even Science Fiction.

By 2026, with my plan making a one concept come to life, I should be able find the matter of reaching out outside of Stage 32, if I'm lucky though. Anyway, Happy New Year!

Hi, Ashley Dreswick-Dollinger. I’m a Stage 32 Lounge Moderator. I wanted to let you know that I moved your post from the Authoring & Playwriting Lounge to the Introduce Yourself Lounge since you're introducing yourself and promoting Directly in Front of Me. Let me know if you have any questions.

Welcome to Stage 32,Ashley Dreswick-Dollinger! Congratulations on becoming a published author — that’s a huge milestone It’s inspiring to see your journey from a love of reading and films to writing, and then expanding into screenwriting. Directly in Front of Me sounds like a heartfelt YA romance/drama, and I love that you’ve already taken it from book to screenplay. Wishing you the best as you connect with people who believe in your story and help bring it to the screen. Looking forward to seeing your journey grow here!

Hi, Sam Rivera! Happy New Year!

Hey Sam Rivera , happy new year.

Happy New Year

Congrats! And Welcome to S32.

congrats and welcome to the fold. what help do you need if any ?

Welcome Maxim! Which St. John's University, the one in NYC? Can you tell us anything about SOLACE?

hey I have a good a good idea for a movie and I have it certified buy the writers guild of America. let’s talk business!

Hi Maxim, where are you in NYC?

Hi, Adrienne Gowan. Great to meet you. Welcome to the community. Stage 32 has a blog that'll help you navigate the platform and connect with creatives and industry professionals all over the world. Producers, managers, directors, executives, writers, and more. www.stage32.com/blog/how-to-successfully-navigate-the-stage-32-platform-...

Stage 32’s next Community Open House is happening on October 29th (www.stage32.com/education/products/stage-32-s-october-community-open-hou...). It's free, and it'll help you navigate Stage 32 and connect with creatives and industry pros. There's going to be a live Q&A during the Open House.

I suggest using a photo of yourself as your profile picture. People will feel more comfortable networking and collaborating with you if they know what you look like. You can upload a picture by clicking the gear symbol in the top right-hand corner and selecting “Edit profile” in the drop-down menu, then clicking the red button underneath your location and choosing "Update profile picture."

And Stage 32's November Write Club starts soon. If you're interested in joining, check out today's blog to get ready for Write Club (www.stage32.com/blog/the-11th-annual-november-write-club-is-almost-here-...).

Hi Adrienne, I love sci-fi and fantasy too, good luck in LA

Hey Adrienne Gowan happy new year.

That's awesome Sebastian!! make that happen!! Once upon a time a few years ago I was connected with by Andrei Zinca.. I believe he's from your neck of the world.. I'd love to hear more about your film project at some point too

Great, Rick Dumont. I love watching Comedy movies and shows. I used to stay away from writing Comedy because I thought it was too hard, but it's not. I like to mix Comedy with other genres and write silly Comedy and big Comedy scripts. What's your favorite kind of Comedy to?

hello

Maurice, I too enjoy watching comedies, just wish I was able to write them lol... But in answer to your question about my favorite kinds of comedy.. well it depends on the mood really... sketch and improv sometimes other times standup then there's the more subtle comedy of say "murder in suburbia" that i just finished binging or NCIS types... and then other times... the "barney miller" all in the family, friends, seinfeld types of sitcoms... really spans the gamut with no actual top of the mountain favs..u?

Rick Dumont My favorite kinds of Comedy are Comedy mixes like Sci-Fi Comedy, silly Comedy, and Mockumentary.

I've gotten better at writing Comedies from the Screenwriting Lounge posts on Stage 32 and reading articles. Stage 32 also has Comedy writing Education (www.stage32.com/education/search?term=Comedy).

Hi, Aihie Princess Osariemen. Welcome to the community. Stage 32 has a blog that'll help you navigate the platform and connect with creatives and industry professionals all over the world. www.stage32.com/blog/how-to-successfully-navigate-the-stage-32-platform-...

Stage 32's had a Community Open House today. The recording will be up soon. It'll also help you navigate Stage 32 and connect with creatives and industry pros. www.stage32.com/education/products/stage-32-s-december-community-open-ho...

Thank you so much

You're welcome, Aihie Princess Osariemen. What are you working on?

Thanks, Brittany Christine. I'm thinking about turning the short script into a feature script or TV series.

Brittany Christine I'd know that accent anywhere aussie.! Bill was hilarious!

Love that it's about a cat Maurice Vaughan

@brittanychristine Wow, this is so well done and very engaging! I really enjoyed it quite a bit.

Hi Brittany, that was cool, working on anything now?

Great to meet you, Dr. Jr. Welcome to the community. Stage 32 has a blog that'll help you navigate the platform and connect with creatives and industry professionals all over the world. www.stage32.com/blog/how-to-successfully-navigate-the-stage-32-platform-...

Stage 32 had a Community Open House today. The recording will be up soon. It'll also help you navigate Stage 32 and connect with creatives and industry pros. www.stage32.com/education/products/stage-32-s-december-community-open-ho...

Hi, Anthony LaRose. Welcome to the community. I write with settings outside the US. It can help a writer sell scripts.

great to meet you Anthony LaRose - storytelling is irreversibly global at this point. Both organically because of what tech has enabled, but also because countries are getting very competitive with production incentives to attract projects - and producers looooove production incentives. wishing you success!

ALL of my current projects in dev are in foreign locations.

Hello Anthony LaRose As I am Australian I am committed to telling Australian stories but I am also called by my background to write about the conflict in the Middle East from both perspectives and exploring how peace could be achieved.

I don't live in the US so non-US is my default. Then again I don't really write with any specific location in mind to begin with so truth be told I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not (I'd like to think my stories can happen anywhere so if you think it's in the US, you're not wrong).

Hello, nice to meet you, and thank you very much for taking the time to help filmmakers. Happy holidays, and may the new year bring you even more success and passion.

Hello from a fellow new moderator= exciting!

Thanks to Stage 32 and Jack for bringing this type of info and analysis to those of us learning, hoping and waiting for that chance!!

Juliana Philippi Thank you and likewise a pleasure to meet you. Happy Holidays and best wishes for a vibrant 2026!

Darrell Pennington Thank you for your kind note, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Hi, Darryl Mitchell. Great to meet you. Welcome to the community. Stage 32 has a blog that'll help you navigate the platform and connect with creatives and industry professionals all over the world. Producers, directors, executives, authors, screenwriters, and more. www.stage32.com/blog/how-to-successfully-navigate-the-stage-32-platform-...

Stage 32 has an Authoring & Playwriting Lounge where you can get advice, ask questions, find resources, and get feedback (www.stage32.com/lounge/playwriting).

Hello Darryl Mitchell Welcome! You've found the right place. Dive into all of the wonderful offerings and take part in the conversations. Bravo.