Quarterfinalist, Happy Writers Screenwriting Contest - ``Verge of Insanity``
(2013)
Quarterfinalist, New Century Writer Awards, Short Story - "Secret Elizabeth"
(2001)
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Land of The Sunken Garden (Screenplay) Budget: $30M+ | Adventure ⋄ Fantasy Based on an original story by Maryssa Fisk: A fantasy writer joins his long-lost sister in an alternate world called, “Arshaka,” where she, the crowned princess of the land and others need his help in finding a magnificent garden which serves as key to defeating a sweeping force that’s overtaking the very structure of the kingdom.
Odyssey (Screenplay) Budget: $10M - $30M | Romance ⋄ Music The frontman of an up-and-coming rock band and the local actress who inspires him navigate themselves individually and together, while trying to balance life with overnight fame, after the band signs with a major label and the actress is cast in her first movie during the mid-2000's.
Verge of Insanity (Screenplay) Budget: $5M - $10M | Mystery ⋄ Drama A New York City medical student connects with a recovering addict who possesses an amazing gift for art but also, an extremely unique psychological disorder, threatening to turn a difficult situation involving a narcissistic fellow student into a potential confrontation with dangerously volatile consequences.
Back To The Days of Eden (Short Story) Fantasy ⋄ Crime More than thirty years after the World War II-era discovery of an organic, living ink running through vines deep in the Amazon jungle, the world exists in a racially-torn age of two civilizations - the Physio and the Illustrasia - where a team of combined agents put aside their differences to hunt down a mysterious assassin who is attempting to prevent the controversial birth of the first-ever hybrid child to a royal family line.
Dimanesia (Novel, In Progress) Science Fiction ⋄ Military/War Told in five parts, or "Ages" (The American Battlefield, The Risen Conquest, The New Revolution, The Global Uprising and The Battle For History), the epic and thought-provoking story of the Knight family from New York - scientists in the near-future year of 2035 who discover a marine plant chromosome that leads to the astounding creation of the greatest environmental technology the world has ever seen - is chronicled as their achievement is both, protected and exploited during a war against an AI-powered authoritarian cult that begins in North America and spreads to every corner of the planet.
Aquatyx (Short Story) Military/War ⋄ Science Fiction A Delta Force operative finds himself stranded in the Amazon Rainforest, and working with an also stranded local scientist, as the world fights a predatory civilization of creatures that emerge from deep, subterranean freshwater oceans and begin raiding the surface of the earth.
Cook's Farm (Short Story) Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Horror A group of young people heading out on a post-grad camping trip just outside of Los Angeles wind up stranded after their car breaks down near an abandoned farm where they decide to hold up for the night - unaware of the vengeful and nightmarish plan that awaits anyone who is unlucky enough to enter the farmhouse.
House of Division (Short Story and Short Script) Science Fiction The extraterrestrial speaker of an interplanetary delegation struggles with its' decision to send a close family member to Earth on a diplomatic but potentially dangerous mission after delegation forces secretly defeated an enemy invasion of Earth that was covertly initiated through the onsets of the Great Depression and World War II.
The Traveler (Short Story and Short Script) Family ⋄ Drama A troubled, middle-aged writer who lives modestly in a highway town receives a visit from a mysterious stranger one hot afternoon, engaging in a conversation with the man that not only helps the writer face his issues, but also reveals that the stranger is actually his guardian angel.
Coming of Age (Short Story and Short Script) Fantasy ⋄ Action A group of five children who are walking through a peaceful, wooded area to an unknown location and escorted by a kind but mysterious figure during an unseen global crisis, gradually realize that not only can they not remember how it is they all know each other, but also that they each have special abilities which ultimately relate to the reason why they're together.
The Everlastings (Screenplay) Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Horror Following a series of disappearances and cover-ups at a seemingly abandoned but mysteriously guarded plantation in rural New Orleans, a team of investigators is hired by a human rights organization to sneak onto the plantation in search of answers, where they not only discover a group of genetically-mutated creatures that have lived there for hundreds of years, but also, that the source of the creatures’ mutation proves to be a dire threat to the future of the entire world.
Days Gone By (Screenplay) Budget: $30M+ | Action ⋄ Romance ⋄ Science Fiction ⋄ Thriller / Suspense A bank manager whose’ college girlfriend disappeared following a bizarre accident fifteen years earlier is shocked when she suddenly reappears, looking exactly the way she did at the time of her disappearance, but with no memory of anything that’s happened since then and is being pursued by a group of shadowy figures that seem to be intent on taking her life.
Secret Elizabeth (Screenplay) Budget: $5M - $10M | Fantasy ⋄ Mystery ⋄ Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Drama A couple on the verge of divorce mysteriously winds up at the same rustic inn on the same weekend in the mountains of upstate NY, where they meet a talented young artist who leads them through a series of bizarre occurrences that ultimately bring about the restoration of their relationship.
Cyclone of Fire (Screenplay) Budget: $30M+ | Action ⋄ Adventure ⋄ Fantasy A group of international explorers in 1945, unaware of the hidden forces that are guiding them, embark on a quest to find a mysterious, recurring sandstorm that appears unpredictably in the heart of the Egyptian desert and supposedly reveals the location of an ancient lost city which is rumored to be made almost entirely of precious stones.
SUNY Dutchess Community College
(2007-2008)