February 2021
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About Dan
Daniel P. Calvisi is a Script Doctor, writing coach and the author of Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay, Story Maps TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot, Story Maps: 12 Great Screenplays and Story Maps: The Films of Christopher Nolan. He is a former Story Analyst for major studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Miramax Films and New Line Cinema. He coaches writers, teaches webinars on writing for film and television and speaks at writing conferences. He has been endorsed by Script Magazine and featured on Indie Film Hustle, Film Courage and L.A. Screenwriter. He holds a degree in Film and Television from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He lives in Los Angeles.
As a screenwriter, he has written on assignment in many genres, and is currently shopping his original 30-minute television pilots. He has trained in improv, sketch writing and pilot writing at the Upright Citizens Brigade. A sizzle reel for his pilot "Theatrics" is available for viewing on YouTube.
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HOT GEEK Comedy After she undergoes a massive growth spurt that reboots her body and her life, a 15 year-old STEM genius must find the strength and confidence to forge a new identity, get her first kiss and hold together her chaotic family while she proves herself in the male-dominated sport of Robotics.
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THEATRICS Comedy A half-hour dramedy series about second chances as a group of former high school theater friends, now middle aged, reunite to learn that even community theater will not save them from the mistakes they've made in the past thirty years.
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JIM NABISCO: FBI Comedy When a hapless and insensitive FBI agent gets a new by-the-book female supervisor who consistently tries to keep him off the "big" cases, he stumbles his way through dangerous, unsanctioned investigations, leaving destruction in his wake yet somehow always saving the day.
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