SCREENPLAYS
The relationship between a Western journalist and a Kenyan woman, set against the AIDS crisis in Africa; from the book by journalist Lara Santaro. Cowboy Films/Ringel Films producing. Emily Atef directing.
Mercy
Coming of age story of a small-town teen facing down a heartless drug dealer. With Katherine Kupferer, Keith Kupferer. Scott Robinson directed. Robinson Films.
They Rescue Horses, Don’t They?
Naoshima
A cross-cultural love story set in Japan's art islands. Alden Stoner/Stoneworth Studios producing.
A love story/art heist about Fernande Olivier, Picasso's first true love, his theft of the Iberian statues from the Louvre, and the invention of Cubism. Developed with Chiara Condi and Andrea Tomasetti.
The Iberian Affair
Clarity’s Enchantment
A young girl believes composing the perfect musical score can bring her missing mother home. Original.
Young lovers battle bigotry in the Wild West. Based on the novel by Cindy Bonner. MGM. Barnstorm Films.
Lily
A soldiers’ truce in World War I. With Guy Gallo. Original. Mitchell Galin/Epiphany Pictures producing.
The Last Christmas
The Artemis Protocol
Underground activist and AWOL pilot team up to fight artifact smuggling in Central America. Original.
Forbidden love in the last Jewish community in 19th century China. Based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck. Everest Pictures.
Peony
Legend of the female pope. Winner of the 1991 Laurel Screenwriting Award; 1991 Nicholl Fellowship Finalist; selected in 1993 for the inaugural éQuinoxe Writer’s Lab in association with the Sundance Institute, Bordeaux, France. Original.
God’s Mistress / Papesse
Counter-culture Physics students crack roulette and revolutionize Chaos Theory. From the book Eudemonic Pie by Thomas Bass. Focus Features.
Newtonian Casino
Hans Christian Andersen
The life of the Danish writer. Billie August/Moonlight Films.
Jackdaws
British spies in the French Resistance. Based on the book by Ken Follet. Dino DiLaurentis/Universal.
A Syrian Jewish Cabaret owner caught in Nazi Germany. Based on the novel by Harold Nebenzal. Appledown Films/Wolfgang Peterson - Radiant Productions.
Café Berlin
The seducer fails in London and the woman who bested him. Halsted Pictures/Cruise Wagner/Turner Films.
Saving Casanova
Rewrite of an existing adaptation. Uncredited. From the biography by Kuki Gallmann. Hugh Hudson directed. Columbia Films.
I Dreamed of Africa
The life and trial of Veronica Franco, 16th century Venetian courtesan and poet. Inspired by Margaret Rosenthal’s book The Honest Courtesan. Bedford Falls/New Regency. Released by Warner Brothers.
Dangerous Beauty
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Update of the 1947 film. Sean Connery/Fountainbridge/20th Century Fox.
A thriller set in the world of London currency trading. From the novel by Linda Davies. Jersey Films/MGM.
Nest of Vipers
The affair between 1920’s theater designer Aline Bernstein and novelist Thomas Wolfe. Based on the biography by Carole Klein. Barwood/Columbia Studios.
Aline
TELEPLAYS
A young half-Hawaiian surfer learns he has a “gift,” the ability to see into other realms. Series from a story by Jeannine Dominy and Jason Scott. Mitchell Galin/Epiphany Pictures producing. In development.
Gifted
Limited series on the life of Isabella, from birth through the Reconquest of Granada and the creation of modern Spain. From the biography by former Washington Post journalist Kirstin Downey. Mitchell Galin/Epiphany Pictures and David Hill/Hilly Inc. producing. In development.
Isabella The Warrior Queen
With husband Guy Gallo. Treatment for a crime procedural. Nick and Nora in New Orleans; Ship of Fools in the French Quarter. Mitchel Galin/Mark Pedowitz - Pinestreet Entertainment.
Cicero and Jane
Jennie
Winston Churchill’s American mother. Treatment. Appledown Films.
Level Six
Satiric dramatic series about Emergency Rescue First Responders in Sub-Saharan Africa. Original bible.
Finding faith and music in New York City. Part of an anthology of short films titled Sounds of the Night. HBO Films.
Stone Cantata
STAGE PLAYS
Book and verse for a musical stage adaptation of the film. 2004 ASCAP Disney Musical Workshop; 2005 New York Stage and Film Summer Theatre Workshop; 2006 National Alliance of Musical Theatre Festival; American Musical Theatre Project at Northwestern for workshop in 2007 and full production in 2008; full production Pasadena Playhouse in 2011.
Dangerous Beauty
Honor killing and the twenty-four-hour news cycle. Read at The Players as part of the Second Wednesday's Playwrights' Group.
Red Fugue
The Last Christmas
Stage adaptation of original script written with Guy Gallo.
BOOKS
A young girl in the south of England believes composing the perfect musical score can bring her missing mother home. (in progress)
Clarity’s Enchantment
Finding a Better Way
with Tom Stoner. Memoir of his life in broadcasting and new media.
SONGWRITING
Give Me a Break
Lyrics; music by jazz pianist and composer Kuba Cichocki recorded by Bogna Kicinska.
Birds Still Sing
Lyrics; music by jazz vocalist and composer Bogna Kicinska, performed in honor of Ukraine.
EDUCATION
Columbia University School of the Arts
MFA in Film
Yale University
BA in English and History
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Writer’s Guild of America, East
Dramatists Guild