1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: A Bit Much, by Stacy Dymalski
After being told her whole life she’s “a bit much,” an outspoken middle-aged woman has an existential crisis when a first date asks her, “Do you want red or white wine?” Unsure how to answer, she retreats to the restroom in embarrassment, where both sides of her psyche recount her past to help he...
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1st Scene Script Reading: A Package Of Dreams, by Bradley M. Look
A young man is pushed into working for a delivery service by his father and finds himself connecting with a hero from his youth in a supernatural way.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Uncle Icky (M-50s): Steve Rizzo
ARCHAELOGIST #1 (M-30s): Geoff Mays
ARCHAELOGIST #2 (F-30s): H... -
1st SCENE Crime Festival Script Reading: Bffs Never Say Die, by K. Jennifer Ilagan
With the aid of her best friend, a ballsy teenager tries to solve her own murder but the killer might be a lot closer than she thinks.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Voice/Jess: Hannah Ehman
Sadie: Kyana Teresa
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1st Scene Reading: Wild Turkey, by Jay Fjestad
When an eleven-year-old girl escapes the toxicity of her mother's household, she and her alcoholic father are taken in by a local rancher with secrets of his own. Hidden away in the hills of West Texas, she finds the childhood she never had, he trusts to be the father he never was, and the ranche...
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1st Scene Reading: Rocket Number Nine, by Alexander McCoy
LOGLINE: A young man, Kojo grapples with his past and immense loss.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Kojo: Sean Ballantyne
Band: Andy Camp
Santos/Tall Worker: Geoff Mays
Caster: Shawn Devlin
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: What Kind Of Woman, by Israela Margalit
On a fall morning Carlie steps onto the porch of her home in Connecticut and drinks her first cup of coffee, entirely unaware that her life is about to turn upside down. Interweaving reality, fantasy, memory, dreams, fears and hopes, she explores her relationships until she thinks she’s ready to ...
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1st Scene Reading: Jo-Dordy, by Jon Emm
LOGLINE: A young man with Down Syndrome is incidentally (or routinely?) involved in a theft with his brother in law and sister.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Dordy/Goodlow: Geoff Mays
Margaret: Hannah Ehman
Artie: Shawn Devlin
Driver: Andy Camp
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LGBTQ+ Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: Trans-Human, by Leon Masters
SYNOPSIS:
In a world where humanoid robots coexist somewhat peacefully with men and women, Artemis is an innocent robot who has a wholesome father-daughter relationship with her creator William Moore.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Ros Morriss
Hal: Sean Ballantyne
Blake: Shawn Devlin
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TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: My Life In Three Easy Payments, by Dale Madison, Breeze Vincinz, Darryl LeMont Wharton-Rigby
A TV shopping host finds love in all the wrong places as he seeks fame, fortune, and acceptance- eventually discovering his true calling…a drag queen
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Ricky: Sean Ballantyne
Dale: Shawn Devlin
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STUDENT Festival TV 1st Scene: Sous, by Joel Galanti
Billy, a young cook, must prove he has what it takes to work in the prestigious kitchen of a belligerent head chef.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Jalen/Chef: Sean Ballantyne
Nikole: Hannah Ehman
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: Baby Queen, by Max Rasmussen
10-year-old drag queen Darien the Librarian dreams of going viral, but when the top child agent in Milwaukee launches their career in the lucrative and booming drag industry, their single gay father must rescue them from the murky depths of local fame.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris...
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Hacks: New York New York, by Shannon H Constantine
Deborah and Ava go to New York to reunite with one of Deborah's old comedy chums, and realize that the two of them need each other more than they ever thought.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Deborah: Hannah Ehman
Jimmy: Geoff Mays
Ava: Kyana Teresa
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SCI-FI Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: Sky City Haya, by Adad Joel Warda
A tormented bounty hunter must track down his old flame's heroic husband to stop the word's first sky city from collapsing.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Riguirdo: Shawn Devlin
Captain Voice/Security Guard: Geoff Mays
Adrien/Baatar: Sean Ballantyne
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ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Dancing In Place, by Jeanne Dukes
Escalating mutual interest between middle-aged neighbors gets complicated when he suddenly remembers their brief and awkward teen summer romance, but she doesn't recognize him. As he devises a plan to stir her memory, painful secrets from the past threaten to keep them apart.
CAST LIST:
Narr...
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1st Scene Script Reading: Goodbye Port Hope, by Sophia Lee
Synopsis: In the small town of Port Hope, Alice Forester goes missing. With little help or success from the police, it is up to her friends Nico and Lily to find out where she went and what happened to her.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Lily: Hannah Ehman
Nico: Shawn Devlin
Principal: Kyana ... -
1st Scene Script Reading: The Calling, by Steven Bogart
Summary:
John, a hospital director, raises his socially awkward daughter, Frankie by himself.CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Frankie: Hannah Ehman
Ali/Sophie: Kyana Teresa
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1st Scene Reading: Losing The Plot, by Nicola Morris, Rupert Bogarde
An absurd comedy set in a run-down New Forest estate agents where the living are swindled and the dead given houses to haunt.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Richard: Andy Camp
Jay: Shawn Devlin
Dregs: Geoff Mays
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DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Death's Hidden Love, by Ernestina Juarez
A cynical teenage girl views her father's struggle with depression as a sign of weakness but her attitude toward him changes when an ancestor seeking a lost love saves them both from the wrath of an assassin in a drug cartel.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Peter: Sean Ballantyne
Rudy: Sha... -
1st Scene Screenplay Reading: Magnetman, by Christian Riedel
A young private investigator has an accident that causes him to develop magnetic powers. He tries to use them for good, but there is one person on earth who knows about his powers and tries to stop him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Benjamin: Sean Ballantyne
Watson (Parrot): Ha... -
ENVIROMENTAL Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Surge, by David Cooper
John O’Neal wants to change the world to honor his dead mother and to spite his abusive father—while getting very, very rich. Following a worldwide Global Warming catastrophe, he loses his invention to a deep conspiracy and becomes an eco-terrorist—until he uncovers the truth.
CAST LIST:
Narrat...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: El Alacran, by Julie Miller
After being stung by a scorpion during a holiday in Mexico, Lexie uses newfound superpowers to wreak revenge on men who have crossed her, ridding her world of toxic waste ... one asshole at a time...
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Lexie: Hannah Ehman
Cassidy: Kyana Teresa
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DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Border Flesh, by Pepe García Gilling
After losing his brother and the only family he has left, 14-year-old Connor encounters Fernanda and her 13-year-old daughter, Bárbara. Both women are Mexican and don't speak a word of English. Connor, Fernanda and Bárbara must communicate as best they can to survive zombie apocalypse at the Méxi...
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1st Scene Screenplay Reading: The Hawthorne, by Adam Pike
After the sudden and mysterious death of his mother, Jacob is forced to live with his estranged Grandma and her weird troupe of friends at 'The Hawthorns', a very super retirement home.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Greece/Richard: Sean Ballantyne
Wendy: Hannah Ehman
Mary: Julie... -
TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: Brutal Journey, by Tom Freyer
In 1528 Spain, the King’s timid treasurer is forced to accompany a sadistic lunatic and 500 conquistadors on the first cross-country exploration of North America.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Ayllson: Sean Ballantyne
Castillo: Shawn Devlin
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