Jon Ridge

I’m Jon. I work as a 911 Call Taker for City of Austin. You hear a lot: One moment some guy is running out of Best Buy without paying for a new PS5, only to trip and bust his face on the sidewalk — so how he’s got a brief trip to the hospital followed by a slightly longer stint in jail to look forward to — the next, a dude was playing with his puppy and it bit clean through his penis (do. not. ask.)

Screenwriting is my escape from the madness. I love movies, especially grounded human characters out there existing in the world, having to contend with impossible supernatural scenarios. How they navigate that; how it impacts their lives. If that’s a genre.