1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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LA Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Bleed Just Like Us, by EZEKIEL Jeremiah WALKER
Set at a southern Black college, a conflicted student struggles to find his purpose while those closest to him find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
JJ: Geoff Mays
Corey: Sean Ballantyne
Cashier: Allison Kampf -
COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Gender Reveal Party, by Aaron James Sutch
A D List celebrity couple’s baby gender results go missing days before the corporate sponsored gender reveal party and they scramble to get the results back before their careers are ruined.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Cash: Geoff Mays
Blythe: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Journey: Sean Ballantyne -
1st Scene Screenplay Reading: And No One Mourned, by Ky Rogers
When a financial advisor is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he realizes that instead of wasting his time and money on flashy cars and fancy suits, he should’ve spent more on hookers.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Alec: Geoff Mays
Hot Orderly: Hannah Ehman -
SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: GRID, by Joshua Tywater
An altruistic engineer becomes a fugitive when he's accused of sabotaging the global power grid he helped create.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Niles: Geoff Mays -
TV Festival 1st Scene Script Reading; SECOND CROSSING, by James Howells
A rip into a Parallel Universe has opened above a small Colorado town dropping a corpse from the sky and dumping a German U-Boat into a forest. This rip has reinvigorated shady industrialist Frank DeWitt who rules the town with an iron fist. What a first day for new sheriff Jaimie and her new to ...
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ACTION Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: THE TALE OF JJJ & THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS, by Jacobo Fe
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
David: Allan Michael Brunet
Mick: Steve Rizzo
MALAYSIAN PROSTITUTE: Kyana Teresa -
1st Scene Screenplay Reading: Demonology, by Joseph Bronzi, Lindsay Gelfand, Buddy Fitzpatrick
Homicide Detective Harry Frye has a gift for infuriating women. His new partner Millie (who had rage issues before Harry) is pregnant, so working with her is like playing Twister in a minefield. His daughter is working off 'Daddy Issues' in a Strip club, and his AA Sponsor is so in love with Harr...
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Sugar, by Sayde Hampton
In the summer before college, Alexa takes her young sister, Emmy, on a road trip across the country.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Alexas: Kyana Teresa
Emmy: Hannah Ehman
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Winning 1st Scene Script Reading: The Untimely Death of Herbert Sullivan, by Tash Ann, Ben Barker
When a man realizes that the mysterious company he works for may be responsible for the death of his girlfriend, he begins down a path to unravel a national conspiracy.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Voice on Radio: Allan Michael Brunet
Brother Colin: Steve Rizz -
LGBT Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: False Positive, by Eleni Vosinaki
When an asexual writer gets challenged out of her small life by her larger-than-life best friend, she explores how far she is willing to go for a bit of respect and a chance to belong.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Mary: Kyana Teresa
John: Allan Michael Brunet
Damien: Steve Rizzo
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LA Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: The Only Boy In New York, by Robyn Gudgell
2 years after the apocalypse, the only boy left behind takes a cross country road trip through an empty United States of America to see if he truly is alone, but his inability to let go off the past proves the trip to be harder than expected.
CAST LIST
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Nick: Alla... -
LGBT Festival 1st Scenes Script Reading: COME ALIVE, by L. Andrew Cooper
A middle-aged gay couple’s attempt to rekindle their relationship turns into an absurd, hormone-fueled quest to defeat alien invaders and save a new LGBTQ society.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Alvy: Bill Poulin
Tim: Allan Michael Brunet
Ron: Steve Rizzo
Michelle: Julie Sheppard ... -
FEMALE Festival 1st Scene TV Script Reading: Bedford Arms, by Clea Montville-Wood
After her father's death and Margo, an evil step-mother by all accounts, stops helping Willa pay for school escaping to Greenwich Village is Willa's only option. Though she doesn't know anyone except her aunt, Willa soon finds a sense of home at Bedford Arms, a place filled with eccentric and str...
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Winning BLACK Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Home Health Chronicles, by Jason Henderson
The story is centered around Dr Sincere "Seven" Hart , a physical therapist, who is a home health provider in the National Capital, Washington DC. Sincere traverses the city evaluating and treating patients on a Friday during the Pandemic. Jason has the craziest day on the job. With the pandemic,...
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Winning 1st Scene Reading: ON TRACK, by Simon J. Gallagher
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Howard: Allan Michael Brunet
Curtis: Steve Rizzo -
LGBT Festival 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: 10 Rounds Deep, by Parker Bohner
When a promising young boxer is outed before a life changing fight, he must overcome his lack of support outside of the ring, as he battled against the man he loves in it.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Zaire: Steve Rizzo
Fighter: Allan Michael Brunet
Russ: Bill Poulin -
TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Script Reading: Letterkenny: "Dary's Super-soft Poem", by Jay Servedio
The hicks help Dary write a poem to woo a "cultured lass"; The hockey players run a bake sale for new jerseys.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Wayne: Allan Michael Brunet
Daryl: Steve Rizzo
Squirrley: Bill Poulin
Katy: Kyana Teresa -
FEMALE Festival 1st Scene TV Script Reading: Mad Hadley, by Jodi I Lustig
After a clash with a client goes viral, a lawyer infamous for defending despicable men volunteers at a women's legal aid clinic run by her uber-feminist mother, hoping to turn over a new leaf without tearing down the whole family tree.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Mad: Hannah Ehman
Kaile... -
LGBT Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Big Girl, by Cyn Harris
In 1976 suburban Wisconsin, Tori, 14, is too big and awkward to be the cheerleader her mother demands. When field hockey coach Deb appears at Tori's Catholic school, her swagger, strength and acceptance sets fire to Tori’s repressed desires. Chaos swiftly ensues. Yet through Tori’s new found love...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene TV Reading: THE MENDER, by Robert Ripley
A transgender man turns to contract killing to pay for his gender reassignment surgery, while his murky past begins to catch up with him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Roy: Sean Ballantyne
Jiron: Matthew Camp
Attendant: Steve Rizzo -
1st Scene Screenplay Reading; CRACKSMEN, by Daniel Corey
Cracksmen are a new class of criminal that specialize in slipping into an alternate dimension to commit crimes. Jake is one of the best, but to escape the mob, he has to strike a deal that will get him in trouble with syndicates on both sides of reality.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morr... -
1st Scene Script Reading: SURFACE TENSION, by Shane Walsh-Smith
When the world ends in a nuclear explosion, a family of pampered and petty one-percenters bicker and blunder their way through the apocalypse, confined in their luxury underground bunker.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Clem: Allison Kampf
Camile: Hannah Ehman
Preston: Steve Rizzo... -
NYC Festival 1st Scene TV PILOT: SEEN, by Colin J. Murphy
een follows Caleb Jamison, a NYC writer and podcaster who is quick-witted, sensitive and has a pop culture reference at his fingertips to pull out at any moment. Basically, he is the person who slays the GIFs in a group chat. After continually taking a back seat in his own life, Caleb's friend So...
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THRILLER 1st Scene Script Reading: Eat What You Kill, by Leslie Lyshkov
A cunning, but naive attorney gets in over his head with a Wall Street financier and the Russian mob.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Max: Sean Ballantyne
Ruben: Steve Rizzo
Vulture Capitalist: Matthew Camp
Neisha: Allison Kampf