1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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Script Reading: N'Ever Ever After, by Morgan Allison Ross (with interview)
Interview with writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
This is a screenplay for a television show pilot called "N'Ever Ever After: Introducing Mrs. and Mrs. Robinson..." about the romantic misadventures of wedding planning. Similar to The Office and Abbott Elementary, it's a mockumentary ...
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It's Always Sunny Spec Script "Charlie's Web", by Theodore George Boozalis
Charlie is tired of being human and decides to become a rat. The gang must replace him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Eugenia: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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1st Scene Script reading: Origin, by Will Macduff (with interview)
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
Its about who we may be versus who we have been led to be - but also... the difficult decisions we often have to make in the pursuit of self-knowledge. It's not really a creature feature, although i was tempted to write it like that.
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1st Scene Script Reading: Bite Me, by Andy Palmer, Ben Begley
To pay for her dream internship, Dusty Douglas returns to the family business she spent the last decade running from… Professional Bass Fishing. Partnered with a cable access fishing show host, Dusty will have to dethrone her own father and perennial champion, Hank “Large Mouth” Douglas, at a sp...
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LGBTQ+ 1st Scene Reading: Pray the Gay Away, by Michael & Zak Zakar
Pray The Gay Away (the series) is a half-hour, single-camera comedy based on the real-life misadventures of Middle eastern, gay twins, Michael & Zak Zakar and their ultra-religious family who are obsessed with keeping up appearances but are anything but perfect.
Inspired by the best-selling me...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI TV 1st Scene Reading: Light Catchers, by Jarrod Roberts
To get revenge on a powerful, intergalactic corporation, a lone-wolf criminal must recruit and captain a team to travel into deep space and steal the secret method for faster than light travel.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
News Announcer: Hannah Ehman
Jack: Geoff Mays
Biz: Sean Ballatyne -
FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Serrated, by Julia M. Sauder
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Marta: Hannah Ehman
Christopher: Geoff Mays
Lela: Elizabeth Rose MorrissInterview with the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
A magazine reporter who travels to Maine to find her missing brother and discovers a family practing voodoo in the hopes...
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Terry Stinger Show, by Carlos Perez
Romeo and Juliet meets Jerry Springer in this Elizabethan parody of the famous talk show.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Terry: Geoff Mays
Juliet: Hannah EhmanInterview with the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
Taking the characters from Romeo and Juliet and placing them on a...
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Hollywood'll Eat, by Jeffrey Kazanjian
A dark coming of age satire about a young boy trying to break into Hollywood.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Old Man/Gepetto: Geoff Mays
Pinnochio: Sean Ballatyne -
COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Head Block, by Jessica Sadler
Cherry Ann Bigman hopes to hang up her casual-sex shoes for something more substantial. Unfortunately, online dating chews her up and spits her out. So she takes up a new hobby--MMA fighting--and once she stops seeking, what she wants finds her.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Cherry Ann: Hann... -
COMEDY Fest 1st Scene Read: Wordlotto, by Thomas A. Lopilato (with interview)
Comedic view of America's Cultural and Political quagmire. First installment in a series of ten episodes. Three total seasons.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Delores: Hannah Ehman
Frank: Geoff MaysGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
‘Alternative Facts’ are over...
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1st Scene Reading, Underwater Hazards, by Pamela PerryGoulardt
While searching for a great story, a young journalism student swims into the lair of a cannibal Merman Wizard deformed from water pollution.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Polly: Kyana Teresa
Anne: Hannah Ehman -
1st Scene Reading, We Are All Dead, by Arthur Tiersky
When a robbery goes wrong and the getaway driver is killed, the gang's two leaders become romantic rivals when the driver's widow shows up to collect her share.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Voice/McBride: Shawn Devlin
Johnny: Steve Rizzo -
LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: Out In The West, by Claire V. Riley
The first lesbian western TV series about a sharpshooting gender outlaw who poses as a man so she and her shrewd southern belle lover can escape a vindictive brother and a brutal husband returning from the Civil War and create a new life as a married couple out in the west.
CAST LIST:
Narrator...
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POLITICAL Festival 1st Scene Script Read: The Olive Branch, by Danny Boushebel
When their sightseeing is cut short at a Syrian Army checkpoint in Lebanon, a new couple is forced to learn more about each other as well as themselves in order to find the strength to escape a life-threatening situation.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Danny: Steve Rizzo
Emma: Val Cole ... -
1st Scene Script Reading: Omissions, by Jessica Marie Sadler (with interview)
A couple, whose marriage teeters on the brink due to infidelity, split during a visit to Baltimore for Thanksgiving. Separated, they go through harrowing experiences that leave them bruised and battered and teaches them the unconventional secret to relationship longevity. Omissions is a dark dram...
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TRAMPS LIKE US TV Pilot Script Reading
The diverse crew of the tramp steamer Stella Maris sails into fantastic danger in the South Seas in this horror adventure set in the 1930s.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Seaman Casey: Shawn Devlin
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VIKE TV Pilot screenplay reading, by Adam Kelly Morton
Where fantasy meets procedural mystery, a cantankerous Chief Constable must solve crimes AND judge them in a dark and dangerous metropolis. Vike struggles with his own addictions and fears while up against the Arklanen: an underground guild of dark magic, responsible for the death of Vike's wife....
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: DEEP AS HELL, by Laddie
Twelve strangers trapped in a subway car during a blackout fight for their lives when a man-eating creature emerges from the darkness and attacks.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
James: Steve Rizzo
Mother: Val Cole
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TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: Quantum Entanglement, by KC Kramer
After being led to an ancient artifact that bears her signature as well as a mysterious name drawn inside a heart, Clea Smith finally gets to realize her childhood dream of becoming a time traveler when she crosses paths with agents of a time travel law enforcement agency from the future and join...
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: MTL Baths, by Cliff Zimowski
A Homophobic, unemployed woman inherits a failing gay bath house in Montreal's Gay Village and tries to make it a success.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Paquet/Uncle Lou: Andy Camp
Marco/Cedric: Steve Rizzo
Benoit/Felix: Allan Michael Brunet
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TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: Hoodz, by Christina Brandon-Gómez
Two years after a deadly virus wipes out the adult population of the Earth, the remaining youth fight each other and the airborne assassin as they struggle to survive in a lawless world. Can secretive loner Ravyn and a hodgepodge group of teens overcome mistrust of each other to uncover the bigge...
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CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Board Games, by Madeline Hombert, Michael Markus
With the dark dysfunctional-family tone of Hitchcock's "Psycho" and the intensity of Freddie's“Elm Street” adventures,
BOARDGAMES is a character-driven thriller.
A SMALL CITY DESCENDS INTO CHAOS AS A SERIAL KILLER SLASHES HIS WAY THROUGH THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT.CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Shepp...
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POLITICAL Festival 1st Scene Reading: Night, by Tom Thorpe
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of two teenagers from a fire watch tower, discovers a mutilated body, an incinerated car with human remains and reports of a UFO hurtling towards the San Francisco peaks.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Richard Lee: Steve Rizzo
John Tharp: Allan Michae...