1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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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