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I'm a member of the Dramatists Guild. My dancical "Jitterbug!" is a hybrid play based on my screenplay. It uses music from the "Great American Songbook" to help tell its story-- but without anyone breaking out into song to propel the story along. It has been optioned by Hierarchy Pictures. Noted director, actress, teacher, and playwright Petronia Paley staged two NYC readings of the stage play. The first was at the prestigious National Black Theatre in Harlem. The second reading was part of the Emerging Artists Theatre's New Works Festival championing new musicals. That reading had dance numbers by Emmy-nominated choreographer Jeffrey Page. Performed at the Tada! Youth Theatre in NYC, it sold out, got a standing-O. Now available as a book, it has free Educator Manuals based on the National Core Arts Standards in Dance, Theatre, Music (Composition and Ensemble strands), Literature, and Social Studies/History. You can learn more about Jitterbug! at https://bit.ly/3KtU6mq and www.jittrbug.net
18 year old martial arts phenom Jesse-Jane McParland has signed a Letter of Intent to play the co-star Stormy Jones in my Nokosee series. Born in Armagh, Ireland, she has appeared in Robyn Hoodie, Into the Badlands, The Martial Arts Kid. She will play the role of Stormy Jones, a jaded teen American with a pink Mohawk and an attitude to match who falls in love with a mysterious Seminole teen on a mission to start an eco-war with the “Outside.” She currently holds over 300 martial arts titles and is 21 times World Champion and 12 times European Champion. Other titles include 9 times Double WAKO World Champion, 6 times WKC World Champion, WKC Youngest Female World Champion, 3 times WOMMA World Champion. You can learn more about the films at https://bit.ly/3nBBjeU and here https://bit.ly/3qFsEtV
My most recent screenplay "Sub Rosa: Saving the Orca" is an action-adventure about an over-the-top dead-of-night caper to free a killer whale from an aquarium.
I am currently working on the libretto for "Rehab the Musical." It's a Felliniesque look at the lives of seven celebrities as they battle drugs, alcohol, and each other while in rehab.
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5th Street Budget: $1M - $5M | Sports ⋄ Drama Explores the lives and times of the rich and famous, the night clubbers, and the common man through the eyes of the owner of the fabled 5th Street Gym where all paths cross.
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Flying Saucer Summer Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi ⋄ Romance A shy teenage boy falls for a cute space alien on a secret mission to have a baby with an Earthling.
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Lucky Bastard: A Family Film Budget: $1M - $5M | Action ⋄ Family When an autistic child is kidnapped, it's up to an enterprising dog to save the day.
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Monster Mountain Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror Hikers meet a tribe of half-human, half-dinosaur creatures and space aliens in the mountains and no one lives to tell about it.
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Rehab the Musical Budget: $5M - $10M | Musical A Felliniesque look at the lives of seven celebrities as they battle drugs, alcohol, and each other while in rehab.
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Santa Claus is Down! Budget: $5M - $10M | Family A man suffering the tragic loss of his family is reunited with them when he becomes Santa Claus.
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Save the Children Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Action After her twin sister is murdered trying to save children from trafficking in an unnamed SE Asian country, the woman joins forces with a jaded expat to find and kill the killer.
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Sub Rosa: Saving the Orca Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Action A black ops program that talks to dolphins and orcas teams up in an interspecies assault to free an orca held captive for 50-years, and to battle a Russian sub set to intercept them.
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Tree! Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent ⋄ Drama A man climbs a tree and refuses to come down. This simple act makes him rich and famous and brings peace to the world-- as long as he stays in the tree.
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Fajardo: The Beat Goes On Budget: $5M - $10M | Musical ⋄ Biography The true story of a poor Puerto Rican kid from the Bronx with a rap sheet a mile long who grows up and revolutionizes Ballroom Dancing.
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Everlasting Budget: $5M - $10M | Western ⋄ Fantasy A jaded soldier is shot and falls next to Custer. He wakens in a world where life and death are indistinguishable and embarks with a mongrel whore--who becomes any woman he wants-- for answers.
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Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole Budget: $1M - $5M | Action ⋄ Adventure ⋄ Drama ⋄ Other ⋄ Romance ⋄ Thriller A teenage girl lost in the Everglades stumbles upon a modern day teenage Tarzan on a mission to start an eco war with the "Outside."
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Nokosee and Stormy: Love & Bullets Budget: $1M - $5M | Action ⋄ Adventure ⋄ Drama ⋄ Music ⋄ Other ⋄ Romance ⋄ Thriller Stormy Jones returns to Nokosee in the Everglades, pregnant and wanted by the law. This sets off a series of events that include a wedding, kidnappings, and a war with Army Rangers.
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Jitterbug! Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Historical ⋄ Musical ⋄ Romance A jitterbug love story woven between the lives and times of legendary black entertainers, black and white thugs, and the common man in swinging 1930's Harlem. Based on my award-winning play.
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