Stephan Clark

Screenwriter

Saint Paul, Minnesota

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About Stephan

Stephan Eirik Clark is the author of the short story collection VLADIMIR'S MUSTACHE (Russian Life Books), a finalist for the 2013 Minnesota Book Award, and the novel SWEETNESS #9 (Little, Brown), which was featured on The Colbert Report, NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" and named one of the best books of 2014 by the editors of Amazon Canada. A former member of USC Film School’s filmic writing division, Clark had a screenwriting manager while pursuing his Ph.D. at USC and worked on the adaptation of his novel for Olympus Pictures. More recently, he wrote, directed, and edited his first short film, OLD MEDIA STUDIES. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota and teaches fiction and screenwriting at Augsburg University, where he directs the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.

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50 Acres of Dirt in Eastern Nevada Budget: $100K - $1M | Independent A young alcoholic who lives for nothing more than the next drink is forced to reevaluate his life after his self-destructive behavior inadvertently harms his estranged girlfriend and her family.
ACTS TOO HORRIBLE TO NAME Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Comedy In light of a series of sexual "indiscretions," a 17th century Puritan colony confronts the potential unraveling of its tightly wound morality. Think The Scarlet Letter as an ironic comedy.
Love or Burgers Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy When the playboy son of a burger tycoon is forced to marry a respectable woman in order to claim his inheritance, he must overcome his worst instincts and the schemes of others in order to live a life in pursuit of love and not money.
American Gulag (Pilot) Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama Pilot: As economic collapses leads a Midwestern College to eliminate its English Department, affected students and professors prepare for the arrival of a hated financial executive who is blamed by many for the collapse of the economy. Series: When political ineptitude and economic meltdown send the United States into its second civil war, a writing professor who has lost everything uses the plot of a student's protest novel to establish a system of prison camps -- the American Gulag -- to punish those who have brought the country to ruin. Set in the near future at a time when the country is beset by presidential ineptitude, political deadlock, and economic meltdown, the show will be a kind of post-apocalyptic drama, much like Fear the Walking Dead. Only whereas Fear uses a zombie apocalypse to test its characters, Gulag will imagine a populist revolution that leads to the formation of a Soviet-style gulag across the heartland of a fractured United States. Show bible available upon request.