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About Judith
WHEN I was called into the principal's office in third grade, I was convinced that one of my parents had died, since I had never been anything but well-behaved. But instead it was to tell me that my poem had just been chosen for a national poetry anthology. After that there was never a question of what I would do in this life. I went on to major in creative writing at Bennington, study screenwriting at the New School, and to write a book and play GOODBYE MY FANCY (not the 1948 one - book on Amazon, YouTube link to play below - about the last months of Walt Whitman's life), which was "supposed" to have been produced on Broadway (both Charles Durning and Burgess Meredith agreed to do it), and later as a television pilot that was "greenlighted" (but also never came to pass). Finally, GOODBYE MY FANCY is being made into an audiobook with Academy Award-nominated Paul Raci as the voice of Whitman, which will be available on Audible and iTunes.
I wrote several other plays that were produced, published a literary magazine THE DAY BARQUE, became the editor-in-chief of the Italian art magazine FMR, wrote at least 40 murder mystery plays for various events, worked as Anthony Quinn's personal assistant, and as an editor and copywriter. My very first script PUREBRED about a dog show got a top agent through a cold query letter -- made the rounds but didn't sell.
Other scripts followed, in the comedy, family, dramedy genres, and, my last one, YIN AND YANG, (a bisexual romantic comedy), was in development with a top producer (AMERICAN HISTORY X). I placed in several contests, including Big Break and Fade In, as well as was top 10% Nicholls for YIN AND YANG, which also received Recommend from Stage 32 Coverage. Other interesting scripts are SOMERSAULTING OVER NEW YORK (family) and BETTER PEOPLE (comedy) as well as an animated feature KINGDOM OF THE BIRDS, based on the 14th-century Sufi text CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS. I also completed the television pilot for STARDUST FAMILY and was hired to write the pilot for FORTUNE'S CALL: A GOLD RUSH ODYSSEY. My most recent screenplay UNMARRIED was a semi-finalist in the Stage 32 Romantic Comedy contest. My theatrical play PSYCHE AND EROS was just adapted for film and there is a group of investors currently interesting in producing it. Fingers crossed!
I lived 11 years in Italy (Milan and Rome), 4 years in France (Paris and Antibes), about a year in Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow), as well as in New York and San Francisco. Now I am holed up in rural Northern California, without distractions, other than my bossy little white dog, Romeo,
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Psyche and Eros Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Fantasy A magical retelling of the classic Greek myth, adapted from my theater play: The peoples' worship of Psyche, the most beautiful girl in the world, enrages the goddess Aphrodite, who sets her son Eros to make Psyche fall in love with a horrible beast. But instead, dazzled by her beauty, Eros himself falls in love with her. We will finally resolve the age-old riddle: Why is Psyche forbidden to look on Eros?
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Marvelous Creatures Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Comedy The lifelong friendship of two geeky best friends from Long Island who move to New York in the 1970s, where he ends up coming to terms with his sexuality during the AID’s era, becoming America’s most famous celebrity photographer, and hobnobbing with socialites and movie stars in the 70’s party scene, and she ends up as a Playboy model, sexual adventuress who never finds true love, and head of a party entertainment company catering to decadent Wall Street traders. A true story. Co-written with Carter Winter.
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Somersaulting Over New York Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy ⋄ Family Two worlds magically touch when three Celestial Spirits intervene in the lives of a charming but troubled family to help the family fulfill its exceptional destiny as well as Their own.
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The Kingdom of the Birds Budget: $5M - $10M | Animation ⋄ Adventure Their leaderless kingdom in tatters, ten quirky, quibbling birds fly through forests, deserts, volcanoes and ice caps to seek out their King as ten thousand ravens try to stop them from discovering the mind-blowing secret. The Wizard of Oz meets Winged Migration. Based on the 14th-century Sufi text.
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Stardust Family (pilot) Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Comedy After the 1967 Summer of Love, a group of naive, idealistic hippies move to an abandoned farmhouse in rural Northern California to start a commune, clashing with each other, their families, the law, the elements, and the angry locals, as their dreams crash into reality. Can a bunch of really imperfect people create a perfect world?
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Unmarried Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy A saucy, out-of-the-box young woman, who only dates married men in order to keep the passion burning and evade the heartbreaks of commitment and love -- but who refuses to be a home-wrecker -- meets her nemesis when she falls for a “married” man. A mostly true story.
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My Ghost Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy In order to pay off her college loans, a high-minded Yale Classics graduate is forced to become a ghostwriter for a self-centered, womanizing, self-destructive actor just out of jail.
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Yin and Yang Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Romance Two rivals—an eager-to-please woman just dumped by her husband and a controlling ladies’ man—enter into a passionate tug-of-war for the affections of a seductive, undocumented Russian manicurist, who may—or may not—be playing cat-and-mouse with them.
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Better People Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy Tired of their cut-throat existence, a high-powered Manhattan couple move to a tiny village in France to become better people but become obsessed with getting rid of her when the old woman whose farmhouse they purchase refuses to die.
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Purebred Budget: $1M - $5M | Family ⋄ Romance A double-Cinderella story set in the dog show world: a feisty, independent photojournalist whose life is invaded by a scruffy, unwanted, runaway dog, competes with a handsome, arrogant dog-trainer/breeder for the Best-in-Show title.
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Semi-Finalist Stage 32 Romantic Comedy Contest - Unmarried
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ISA Fast Track Fellowship Second Rounder - Unmarried
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Semi-Finalist Stage 32 Family Friendly Contest - Purebred
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Quarterfinalist Big Break - Yin and Yang
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Semi-Finalist Fade In - Purebred
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Top 10% Nicholls 2019 - Yin and Yang
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