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Dollby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2025
A mysterious elf doll arrives on Helen's front door step on Christmas Eve and weird stuff starts to happen.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love Attackby  Jackie Bateman
Date Posted: 16 May 2024
A cardiologist falls for a heart attack patient, who turns out to be an anxious man who has accidentally swallowed the diamond ring intended for his high maintenance girlfriend.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pity the Poor Cowboyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 06 May 2025
A Western musical in which two cowboys mourn the passing of one of their own

Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fireflies or C.S.H.C.?by  Martin Richmond
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
Avoiding certain incineration by the skin of his teeth, a young man basks on a desert isle, reflecting on his survival and the manic, apocalyptic balloon flight he shared with Alfred Hitchcock!

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Juliasby  Sharon Mae Disney
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2024
"JULIAS", is a compelling story set in the east end London underworld, where a power struggle unfolds as various gangsters contemplate merging into a single organization under the leadership of the mysterious "Julias." The narrative follows the unfolding tensions, loyalty tests, and hidden agendas that threaten to disrupt the delicate balance of power within the criminal underworld. As secrets come to light, the stage is set for a thrill of betrayal and ambition.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lockdown Survivalby  Walter Wessels
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2024
To save humanity from an extremely infectious super virus, a vial containing a cure that can stop an orchestrated pandemic must fall into the correct hands. But corrupt world leaders and their sinister forces will stop at nothing to retrieve this antidote to further their own agenda.

Genre: Other
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Clock Of Timeby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
On his 18th birthday, Eddie receives a time clock from a strange woman that allows him to travel to the past and the future. At first he was skeptical about the gift, but once he used it he did not immediately understand the great price of time traveling and he loses his youthful years.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Phoenix Dreamsby  Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
A gritty drama unfolds when betrayal and murder upend a beautiful, deranged woman.

Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Accidentby  Daniel Genchev Yanev
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2024
Two guys get their karma back and have to face the consequences of drunk driving.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Postmanby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2024
Victim of a murder, a postman is brought back to life by a cursed Indian Talisman who gives him the power to fight criminals.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Prioritiesby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young radio talk show host must choose between solving the problems of the world and attending his son's grammar school play.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Prefer Not To Sayby  Maroun Rached
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2024
Three people are challenged about how to tackle gender on their company's website (the theatrical version was performed at the 15th Annual Northport One-Act Play Festival).

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Now and Thenby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2024
Split screen of one day in the life of two people who never meet and yet are forever entwined in death and grief.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Into the smogby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024
In a post-apocalyptic world shrouded in toxic green smog, two sisters must learn to survive and reclaim their freedom from a man who controls their fate through his precious vegetable garden.

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Fall and Rise of Luciferby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
The story of Lucifer the first angel created by God; Lucifer’s fall from the heavens and his reason for his rise to becoming the Devil.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Son Of The Lightning: The Nikola Tesla Storyby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2023
The extraordinary story of Nikola Tesla, the man with many inventions, passionate by electricity.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Dedicatedby  Lisa Marie Brennan
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Lucy arrives at a creepy old mansion for a dinner date with misfit Harold-a creepily pale young man with a rare breathing condition, who she plans to trick into marriage and swindle, only to get the tables turned on her by his even creepier family.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Guantanamo Galaby  Robert Ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Musk’s DOGE team’s preps the opening of the prison—adding efficiencies to the electric chair to reduce personnel—Trump invites his bff billionaires down for a grand opening celebration. The party is held in the only room with electricity—the one with the electric chair. What happens next is… well, electrifying.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Car Salesman Builds His Dream Houseby  Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2025
Jim is a car salesman who is building a house to woo back a wayward spouse. Can Jim close the deal? (No house construction filming needed). *2024 Semi-finalist - Grande Stories Screenplay Competition*.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dinner Partyby  Ron Greene
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2024
Career driven attorney, Nathan O'Neil and his wife are invited to a dinner party hosted by the law firm's founder, which can only mean, being made a partner. To test how badly Nathan wants the partnership, he and his wife must play a simple after dinner game. If they win, he's awarded the partnership. If they lose, no partnership, no more living.

Genre: Horror
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mythical Swordby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2024
The legend tells about a mythical sword that gives supernatural power to its owner. Archeologist Adam Prisson and his assistant Leonora have been searching for it for several years, but not only he, but also people who want to use it for evil purposes.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Numbersby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A plucky bunch of nerds get more than they bargained for when they uncover an ancient evil and must fight for their lives as midnight approaches on Halloween.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ghomeedaby  Aya Mheidly
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2024
In their quest for safety as undocumented refugees, Wissam, Hadi, and Jamil find refuge in an apartment. Wissam uses the game of hide and seek to protect Hadi's innocence while teaching vital evasion skills. But when ICE agents intrude, their bond is tested. Despite the turmoil, they hold onto hope, showing the strength of the human spirit

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tourists in a Foreign Filmby  Kimberly Ann Laux
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024
Two tourists, Honey and Sweetheart, are on their way to Hollywood to bask in the glow of Tinsel Town when they take a wrong turn at the corner of Despair and Desperation. Will they decipher the motifs in a strange black and white world with subtitles before it's too late?

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kiss Me, Stay Closerby  Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
A delinquent, young woman from the wrong side of the tracks ingeniously turns the table on her drug dealer. Semi-finalist at the Big Apple Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirrors of Betrayalby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2025
Having always held her mother as an untouchable icon, a newlywed's joy turns to ashes when she walks in on her beloved mom entangled with her brand-new husband, forcing her to navigate a landscape of unthinkable betrayal where the lines of love and hate are dangerously blurred.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Welcome To Tokyoby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Having just lost their jobs on the police force, Antonio and Marcus escape their dead-end lives and domineering women, to support a childhood friend in Japan for his father's funeral. While there, caught in a gangster turf war, they find their moves, their manhood and so much more.

Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Once Upon A Crimeby  Shane O'Connor
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2024
A weary, heartbroken detective returns to Neverland to investigate a series of fairy murders, navigating the island’s dark and dangerous underbelly where the power of belief is the ultimate weapon.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Schrödinger's Momby  Phil Abrams
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2024
A man with autism must face the new reality of being parentless, and yet his neurodiverse perspective helps his caretaker discover there’s more than one way to look at life.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Experimentby  Carl
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
In 'The Experiment,' a modern reimagining of the classic Frankenstein tale, a Scientist will do anything to save his dying daughter, even if there are consequences.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sake Bombby  Will B. Blunt
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2024
Nipponophile Andy invites his girlfriend’s genteel parents to his favorite Japanese restaurant to ask the father for permission to marry his daughter; however, when a pubic hair is discovered in his girlfriend’s sake, he must prove to her father he is a man of honor — by finding the pubic hair’s owner and demanding he apologize for his lewd indiscretion, a task that quickly resembles a John Wick/James Bond movie.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Daggersby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
A man sits beside a woman on a park bench to eat his lunch, but he gradually scoots away from her. When the puzzled woman questions his actions, it leads to a series of bitter insults which arouses them both. (1 location, 2 actors)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Let's Keep Workingby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young man wants to develop a TV reality show, and a young woman suggests that he can do so by helping her with the household chores.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Find My Fiendsby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2024
When the party hostess isn’t answering calls her friends assume she’s been kidnapped and use a tracking app to locate her - with fatal consequences…

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Edison Dollby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
Two estranged twin sisters reunite after their mother’s death, their shared childhood memories—and a cherished antique doll—unlocking decades of guilt, rivalry, and a chance for reconciliation.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Working Manby  Dj Robbins
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2023
A writer trapped by the tyranny of his 9 to 5, frees himself using the power of artistic expression.

Genre: Artistic
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Five Yearsby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2024
After discovering he's to become a father, Mark steals a quarter of a million then gifts it to his girlfriend, but she refuses to accept it.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Phonesby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
The impact of phones in the life of couples.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Attachedby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A concerned young woman and her friends go to a desolate area to pick up her sick brother only to discover in their selfies somethings attached to them.

Genre: Horror
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Living in the Pastby  Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
A 30-year-old disillusioned loner must deal with his estranged and socially awkward father, after he suffers a stroke losing part of his memory. Both share a painful past he cannot forget, and his father cannot remember.

Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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