Tom Schneider

Author, Content Creator and Screenwriter

Moorestown, New Jersey

Member Since:
July 2021

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About Tom

Tom studied philosophy and painting at Hampshire College and showed his work in galleries across the US before trading his paint brushes for an old typewriter at a pawn shop somewhere in New England.

He wrote his first screenplay; Exiled while living in Moscow, Russia. After several more he wrote his first of six novels.

His screenplay Dead at Silver Lake, placed as a semifinalist in Creative Screenwriting’s Unique Voices Screenplay Contest, 2023. His work Headless 1776 placed as a quarterfinalist in Script2Comic 2022.

He is currently working on a historical thriller about medicine, murder, and revenge with a snake-oil salesman in 1910.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 11"

Weight:
180

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Loglines

Witch Hunt 1730 Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Horror In 1730, a reporter travels to the Pine Barrens to cover a witch trial and learns there’s more to the story than witches and someone wants him dead.
Dead at Silver Lake Budget: $1M - $5M | Mystery ⋄ Horror A young moonshiner witnesses a murder and gets caught in a mystery that threatens his sanity, his life, and his soul.
NIGHTINGALE'S GAMBIT Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Thriller It’s 1776 and Washington is preparing to cross the Delaware River, but to save the revolution, she’ll need to stop an army.
Headless 1776 Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Horror 1776 Sees the brutal terror of the Headless Hessian as Elijah travels from Philadelphia to the village of North Tarrytown. His journey leads to a showdown with the murderous horseman on All Hallows Eve.
Montauk Mayhem Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Film-noir When a boy goes missing, a fortuneteller holds the key, and only an on-the-run former government agent can save him. But he’ll have to unleash hell to do it.
Hollywood Sacrifice Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Film-noir The hunted becomes the hunter to save a woman from a secret-society’s deadly ritual.

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Awards

Semifinalist, Creative Screenwriting's Unique Voices Screenplay Contest - Dead at Silver Lake
(2023)
Quarterfinalist, Script2Comic Contest - Headless 1776
(2022)

Education

Hampshire College
(1985-1991)