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WRITING
 NORMA'S PIZZAFEATURE DRAMA - Based on the true story of Norma Knepp, a great-grandmother from PA Dutch Country, who came upon a new passion of pizza at her stand at Root's farmer's market, and took the pizza world by storm, by winning the world's largest pizza competition, the Caputo Cup - with the best New York slice in the world. A true Cinderella story, but with mozzarella and gumption. |  TO CREATE AND DESTROYFEATURE SCREENPLAY - THRILLER - co-writer Sean Thomas Flanagan. When brash, whip-smart Charlotte is lured halfway around the world to a remote island for the mysterious funeral of the unhinged woman who destroyed her life, she and her old friends quickly realize nothing is what it seems, and the only way to salvation is through destruction. |  BLUE BALL, PAFEATURE SCREENPLAY - COMEDY A wise-cracking, blue collar matriarch finds herself out of her element when a medical condition reintroduces her to teenage levels of horniness, dragging her back to the bedroom, and off her (horseshoe) game. Selected Coverfly Pitch Week, currently optioned. |
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 THE LEGEND OF LINNEAFEATURE YA FANTASY - When a sprightly teen notices strange bumps on her body and feathers in her bed, she begins a search for her missing mother only to uncover mysteries in the neighboring mountains, and the breathtaking truth about her identity. |  LITTLE BUFFALOFEATURE SCREENPLAY DRAMA: When a determined middle-schooler raised in an organized drug ring struggles to pursue her ambitions to be a singer, she has to set aside her dreams and safety to help her junkie mother and scheming father get out of the grip of the sociopathic drug lord looming over the family. Selected by The Writers Lab sponsored by Meryl Street & Nicole Kidman, Stowe Story Labs. Finalist at the Sundance Lab and the Blacklist Feature Lab. |  SHOW & TELLFEATURE SCREENPLAY THRILLER: When a fellow high school student is shockingly murdered, a serial-killer obsessed writer schemes to use her underground zine to flush out the culprit hoping she won't land in the cross-hairs herself. Based on the tragic murder of Laurie Show in Central PA in 1991. Selected - Stowe Story Labs |
 MISSING (SAKNAD)FEATURE SCREENPLAY DRAMA: Evocative drama set in rural Sweden about woman thrown into her past, by the tragic loss of her younger brother. Pre-production funding awarded in 2006 by Swedish Film Institute. American Scandinavian Society Grant, 2010. Selected Squaw Valley Writer's Conference. |
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