Arthur Tiersky

Screenwriter and Script Consultant

Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, California

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November 2021

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About Arthur

Born and raised in the Chicago area, Arthur majored in English and Theater at Oberlin College, and eagerly made the big move to LA soon after graduating. He has been a WGA member since 2003, having done rewrite work for Disney and some independent productions and web series, optioned numerous screenplays, written two award-winning shorts, and won or placed in over 100 screenplay contests, most recently winning a spot in the Bahamas International Film Festival Residency Program with his latest script, the meta-rom-com "I Don't Know". He's also been on "Jeopardy!" and "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" and was a winner on "Win Ben Stein's Money", and was a dealer at the World Series of Poker in 2011. He lives with his girlfriend and two cats, Kramer and Judd.

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In the Sack Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Comedy Frustrated with the disappointments of dating and everything else, a lonely, insecure guy decides to start wearing a big black sack over his entire head and body everywhere he goes, with unexpected results.
I'm in a Screenplay Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Seemingly conventional romantic comedy is disrupted when the screenwriter himself intrudes on his own story and turns out to be a better match for the leading lady than the leading man is.
The Second Best Man Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy The night before a wedding, when a misunderstanding leads to the groom into a compromising position with the maid of honor, it's up to the bumbling "second-best" man to save the wedding and keep the bride distracted with a web of deceit that spins out of control.
Control Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Biography True chronicle of the ten year development of one of the most important and controversial inventions of modern history, the birth control pill, as well as a biography of the firebrand feminist who spearheaded the project, Margaret Sanger.
Unmatched Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy Two best friends run a business that breaks couples up for hire, but when one of them falls in love himself and dissolves the company, the other uses every trick in their book to try to break them up.
The Electric War Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Comedy Black-comic satirical version of the events that led to the invention, legalization, and botched inaugural use of the electric chair.