“Positives” (pilot script)
Logline: 34-year Alex discovers she’s pregnant right before a day of teaching high school math, which she must get through while battling with hallucinations of past lovers (and possible fathers of her child).
Quarterfinalist, Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest (2022)
Quarterfinalist, Scriptation Showcase, Teleplay Category (2022)
Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition (2022)
Winner, Best Pilot - Imagine This International Women's Film Festival (2021)
Semifinalist, Sundance Episodic Lab (2021)
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship (2021)
Creative collaboration: Artwork for "Positives”
I asked my friend and artist Kate Kelly, owner of Kate Kelly Design (@katekellydesign), to help me develop thumbnail art for my pilot, “Positives,” to use in pitches and other contexts.
“Positives” logline: 34-year Alex discovers she’s pregnant right before a day of teaching high school math, which she must get through while battling with hallucinations of past lovers (and possible fathers of her child).
I wanted the art to resemble a pregnancy test, and I thought that watercolor—Kate’s specialty—would work perfectly.
I asked Kate if she could make the title, “Positives,” resemble a positive pregnancy test, and to the immediate right is what she came up with. On the far right is the final image I settled upon.
The bleeding watercolor resembles the look of a standard pregnancy test as you wait for your results. The double lines on the “p” is a more overt allusion to a positive test, and the fashioning of the “t” is a more subtle nod to it.
“Widowed” (feature film script)
Logline: Laura works as a test prep tutor catering to Manhattan's elite and can usually handle whatever her clients throw her way--until today.
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 10 (2025)
Quarterfinalist, New York International Screenplay Awards (2025)
Quarterfinalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship (2024)
Quarterfinalist, Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition (2024)
Semifinalist, Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship Season 8 (2024)
Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay Feature Lab (2024)
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards (Spring 2023)
Quarterfinalist, Mad Wife 100 Scripts (2023)
Semifinalist, Scriptmatix Screenwriting Fellowship (2023)
“Widows” (pilot script)
Logline: After their husbands’ deaths, Mary and Lauren try to navigate their grief and messy, intertwined lives without hurting the people around them.
Quarterfinalist, Final Draft - Big Break (2024)
Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Spring 2024)
“Paid Professional” (short film script)
Logline: Laura works as a test prep tutor catering to Manhattan's elite and can usually handle whatever her clients throw her way--until today.
Finalist, Best Short Script - NYC International Screenplay Awards (Feb 2022)
Winner, Best Short Script - Best Short Film Awards (Winter 2022)