Prolific screenwriter, associate director of content in the higher education realm and beer-league hockey player, Timothy cut his teeth as a writer’s assistant on the hit FOX TV show “Prison Break” in California. Upon return to his hometown of Chicago, Timothy co-founded his film company GripWrite Productions, and wrote, produced, and directed three award-winning short films now available on Prime.
Contest recognition for his feature screenplays began in 2017-18 with his horror scripts SILENCE THE DEAD and THE INTERCESSOR and carried on through 2021 with his other horror script SOIL (Your Script Produced – Top 20% of 2500 scripts) and his dramedy GOING AWAY PARTY (PAGE International – Top 10% of 8,300 scripts). He also just finished his latest script SILVER, a familial drama that addresses mental health, and Soil was also just honored as a semi-finalist in the Table Read My Screenplay Competition - 2022!
Soil Thriller ⋄ Horror A grieving teenager is tormented by the sinister scarecrow in the cornfield surrounding her new home and the townsfolk who worship it.
Conveyed Man Sci-fi ⋄ Action As climate change wreaks havoc around the planet, one of the last farmers on Earth joins an underground rebellion to fight the corporate dictatorship that wants to silence his family and destroy his land to ensure their technologically advanced cities and synthetic hydration vapor are the only hope for humankind's survival.
Silver Drama A teenage girl navigates the city with a young DDS worker to find her grandfather who holds somewhere within his dementia-ridden mind the truth about her grandmother’s death—a truth that will bring solace to her and her despondent family.
Scratch Thriller Years after refusing to sign a contract from a controlling friend who won the lottery, a poverty-stricken woman is manipulated by the money and lies surrounding the suspicious death of a friend who did sign the contract.
Trust Drama Three estranged brothers are reunited by a series of trusts from their controlling father so they can bring justice to the families harmed by the corrupt charity created in honor of their dead younger brother.
Survive
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Film (short)
by GripWrite Productions (Thriller)
Writer/Producer A grieving father attempts to save his missing daughter from blood-thirsty creatures in one final act of desperation.
Shadows of Hidden Hill
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Film (short)
by GripWrite Productions (Horror)
Writer/Producer/Director A funeral director discovers the dark truth about his parlor and the missing women in town.
Inheritance
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Film (short)
by GripWrite Productions (Drama)
Writer/Producer/Director Three estranged brothers are forced to build their father’s casket as a stipulation of the trust he arranged for them so they can bury the past and create a future for their families.
Prison Break
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Television
by FOX (Action and Drama)
Writer's Assistant Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside.
Prison Break: Proof of Innocence
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TV Series
by FOX (Action and Drama)
Writer Spin-off from "Prison Break" (2005) for mobile phones, sponsored by Toyota.
Semi-finalist | Table Read My Screenplay (Feature: Soil)
(2022)
Quarterfinalist | Your Script Produced! (Feature: Soil)
(2021)
Quarterfinalist | The TITAN Screenwriting Contest (Pilot: Going Away Party)
(2021)
Quarterfinalist | PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (Feature: Going Away Party)
(2020)
Quarterfinalist | Script Pipeline First Look Project (Feature: Soil)
(2020)
Quarterfinalist | Script Pipeline Screenwriting Contest (Feature: Going Away Party)
(2019)
Quarterfinalist | Stage 32 Search for New Blood Contest (Feature: Soil)
(2019)
5th Place Finalist | Big Apple Film Festival Short Script Competition (Screenplay: Hate to Love)
(2018)
Quarter-finalist | Page Turner Screenplay Contest (Screenplay: The Intercessor)
(2018)
2nd Place | Barrington-Area Film Festival (Short Film: Shadows of Hidden Hill)
(2018)
Finalist | 13horror.com Film and Screenplay Contest (Short Film: Shadows of Hidden Hill)
(2018)
Finalist |13horror.com Film and Screenplay Contest (Screenplay: The Intercessor)
(2017)
Official Selection | Great Lakes International Shorts Festival (Short Film: Inheritance)
(2017)
Grand Prize | Barrington-Area Film Festival (Short Film: Inheritance)
(2017)
Audience Favorite Runner-up | Route 66 International Film Festival (Short Film: Inheritance)
(2016)