About James
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2026-03-09
Writers' Room Member
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Awards
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STAGE 32 Female-Driver Screenplay Awards - Semifinalist
(2025) -
ISA Table Read my Screenplay - Semifinalist
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Page Turner Screenplays - Finalist
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King Film Awards - Best Historical Screenplay
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Chicago Script Awards - Best Thriller Screenplay
(2023)
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Credits
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Look Alive (
2025 - 2026 )
Film (short) by Beautiful Darkness Productions/Christine Jansen Screenwriter A group of friends set out to win a mysterious challenge called Look Alive, held at a remote campsite with a single, deceptively simple rule: look out for each other. As the night unfolds, tensions rise and the stakes grow higher, testing their bonds, instincts, and willingness to survive. What begins as a fun twist on game night quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. -
Red Nose, Floppy Shoes (
2023 - 2025 )
Film (short) by Antonio T Lee Screenwriter The DNA test results are in and MICHAEL (40s) is positive for Clown Syndrome, an extreme form of coulrophobia. This malady layered upon his obsessive-compulsive behaviors provides the framework for a wild ride as his wife MARLA (40s) and daughter CAITLIN (teen) rally to respond to this dreaded syndrome. DOCTOR KEEGLE (20s) treats Michael with a rare and risky remedy involving a serum consisting of ancient mime maxims in an attempt to prolong his life. In a fit of despair, Michael attempts to take his own life by asphyxiation with radon. Rescued by Caitlin and with Marla’s encouragement, he fights on. Hope arrives in the form of a botched diagnosis. It turns out Michael is genetically a clown. Tragically, this news arrives while Michael attends his first Clown Syndrome support group meeting where his clown talents surface for the first time and many die laughing. He is convicted on multiple counts of aggravated murder, a conviction that is later commuted to a lesser sentence when the courts take into account his difficult childhood. As a youth, he was once slapped silly. The family is forever challenged and changed by this parade of silly situations. -
Music Box (
2022 - 2023 )
Film (short) by FilmHouze / Tereza Duskova Screenwriter A talented girl, whose confidence to sing comes from the encouragement of her mother, aspires to win the national singing contest; but when her mother dies suddenly, she must discover her own inner strength to pursue her dream.
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Sable Under the Christmas Tree Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy ⋄ Romance When a disillusioned New York fashion designer discovers a hidden collection of vintage dresses in a small Connecticut town, she must choose between returning to corporate success or building an authentic life with the town's handsome craftsman and his matchmaking Shetland Sheepdog.
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Traffick Jam Budget: $100K - $1M | Action ⋄ Thriller / Suspense When a determined young nurse is lured into a sex trafficking operation by the same man who murdered her mother a decade earlier, she doesn’t just fight to survive — she systematically dismantles the entire criminal network from the inside.
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First Drop of Rain Budget: $1M - $5M | Period Piece ⋄ Romance In 18th-century London, an imaginative and introspective young woman defies social constraints and her father’s expectations by secretly writing a novel that will one day make her one of the most important literary voices of her time.
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Mary and the Kansas Kid Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Western When a refined British girl who survives an Indian attack and a young American man seeking vengeance for his murdered parents cross paths in 1870s Kansas, they must overcome their differences to find healing, purpose, and unexpected love while building a new life at an orphanage farm.
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Shuffling Through High School Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Romance Dancer moves to a new school where he struggles with his identity and what the world of social media means for living a true and original life.
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No Man's Property Budget: $100K - $1M | Action ⋄ Drama In 1849 Georgia, a brilliant, enslaved nurse must outmaneuver her abusive owner – a prominent doctor threatened by her medical genius – to win her freedom, the right to marry a free Black carpenter, and start her medical practice.
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Double Knot Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Romance A boy with Down syndrome feels displaced when a sister arrives, but when he learns she has a physical disability, he becomes her big brother and helps her to adapt, even on her wedding day.
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Watchmaker - Pilot episode: The Rose Budget: $100K - $1M | Action ⋄ Science Fiction Egyptian Queen, her wife and their nemesis are doomed to immortality. The lovers seek eternal happiness, but only two who solve the riddle of time will transcend and their nemesis gets closer with each lifetime.
Education
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University of Dayton
(1984-1988)
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