About Adam

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2024-11-05

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Awards

  • Best Screenplay, LA Film & Documentary Awards for "Bessie's Place"

  • Best Comedy Screenplay, NY Film & Actress Award for "Bessie's Place"

  • Top Award, Depth of Field Int'l Film Festival for "Bessie's Place"

  • Quarterfinalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship for "Bessie's Place"

  • Best Comedy Script, Gold Star Movie Awards for "F***boys"

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  • The Worst Wedding Ever

    The Worst Wedding Ever Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance Comedy Emily is a workaholic techie who’s cheated out of her business and kicked out by her ex. Tony needs to get married in a week to inherit 18 million dollars. Can these two strangers convince Tony’s eccentric Italian family, and his domineering mother, that Emily is his Italian fiancée -- in time to walk down the aisle and collect a fortune? A quirky romantic comedy in the spirit of “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Moonstruck,” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.”

  • Bessie's Place

    Bessie's Place Drama Comedy A conservative Catholic widow, her outspoken maid, and a gay theatre designer in 1930 San Francisco become destitute after the stock market crash. When they open a male brothel, it sets them, and the young men who work there, on an unexpected journey of transformation -- in this sexually liberated comedy-drama.

  • F***boys

    F***boys Comedy Adventure Two down-on-their-luck straight buddies run afoul of a drug lord and flee the gangsters, posing as gay dancers in the touring act of a sexy female pop singer, in this raunchy buddy comedy filled with action-adventure and romance.  (Best Comedy Script, Gold Star Movie Awards; Top Award, Depth of Field International Film Festival; Best Comedy Screenplay Nominee, Cannes Film Awards; Official Selection, Beverly Hills Film Festival)

  • The Makeover Man

    The Makeover Man Romance Comedy A disgraced phonetics professor, who’s cancelled for an offhand classroom remark, tries to reclaim his reputation by transforming a homeless street kid in this modern gay update of George Bernard Shaw’s "Pygmalion." (Best LGBTQ Screenplay, Cannes Film Awards; Best LGBTQ Screenplay, Oxford Script Awards; Best Comedy Script, Gold Star Movie Awards; Top Award, Depth of Field International Film Festival; and Best Unproduced Script, Seattle Indie Film Festival)

  • Medium Raya

    Medium Raya Drama Comedy When a divorced working mom can suddenly see the ghost of the mother she never knew, her new-found powers clash with her religious grandmother and rebellious teenage daughter, as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery in this supernatural dark comedy pilot.

  • It Had to Be Lou

    It Had to Be Lou Comedy A high-spirited man with dreams of fame tangles with his nightclub owner partner in this modern gay twist on "I Love Lucy." Pilot plus two episodes. (8 awards - incl. Winner, San Francisco International Screenwriting Competition)

  • Dave's New World

    Dave's New World Drama Comedy A 40-year-old man, who's married with kids, gradually discovers that he's gay -- and must leave the straight world behind to begin his new life as a single gay man in this quirky, autobiographical dark comedy. (7 awards incl. Platinum Winner - LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival )

  • My Wild and Secret World

    My Wild and Secret World Drama Comedy A boy seeks the love of his California girl crush, and finds refuge from family crises, through his passion for theatre and performing as he comes of age from middle school through college in this quirky musical fantasia set in the tumultuous '60s and '70s. 

  • This is Not My Life

    This is Not My Life Comedy Drama A writer’s attempt to eulogize a famous actor leads him backwards in time into a mad swirl of conflicting realities. The worlds of movies, fiction, television, and theatre collide into a fun-house mirror of illusion, memory, fantasy and dream.

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