Basil Argento

I am happy to announce that my Thriller/Black Comedy OATHBREAKERS has made it to the quarterfinals of the 2024 Academy Nicholls Fellowships.

My scripts are generally funny, crude, and embedded with humanistic messages. I have a unique vision considering my outsider viewpoint as a queer trans man. He/him/his

I'm a screenwriter and aspiring director. A few personal heroes: Boots Riley, Mel Brooks, David Fincher, Atom Egoyan, John Waters, Jordan Peele.

I'm comfortable writing in Irish and British English due to years of absorbing books and media from those areas of the world. In fact, a British producer was shocked that I was born and raised in the USA after reading my Dublin-based pilot script, Head Cases "Mushy Peas."

Dual US/Italian citizen with US and EU passports. I recently relocated to glorious Dublin, Ireland, with my beloved husband and animals.

I plan to produce my first short in late 2024.

I hold a Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.