Cooking with Mark
Cooking with Mark are episodic short screenplays about Mark, a mentally disturbed celebrity chef, attempting to hold his life together while putting on various cooking shows.
Episode 1: How to Boil Asparagus Mark Smith boils asparagus, but the dish reminds him of his ex-wife. Click here to watch the video.
Episode 2: How to Fry Broccoli Mark Smith juggles family, loyalty and love as he tries to make a dish for a special behind-the-scenes feature. Click here to watch the video.
Episode 3: Blood Spear: Reckoning After CIA Agent Mark Smith’s father gets in a terrible accident, Mark must do one last job to get revenge. Click here to watch the video.
Rating: R; Genre: Dramedy; Tone: Lighthearted
Tales From the Other Place
Tales From the Other Place is an anthology series (around 5 minutes each) with a supernatural science fiction theme.
Episode 1: Squirrelland. In the middle of Kansas lies a sovereign nation populated entirely by squirrels: Squirrelland. Click here to read the screenplay.
Episode 2: The Constant. A police chief attempts to solve the peculiar case of a town stuck in time. Click here to read the screenplay.
Episode 3: Itch. A man on a space station realizes he can’t sneeze. Click here to read the screenplay.
Episode 4: The Question. In the distant future, a group of robotic overlords defend humanity from an alien scourge. Click here to read the screenplay.
Episode 5: Incognita. Escaping from the authorities, a criminal is taken into a tribal society. Click here to read the screenplay.
Rating: PG-13; Genre: Sci-Fi Drama; Tone: Serious
Only Gods
Only Gods are episodic short sci-fi screenplays in an upside-down world where humans are being hunted by sentient androids known as artisyns, who have overtaken humans as the dominant life form on the planet.
Episode 1: Pilot A human hides in a sympathetic artisyn’s house, posing as a serv, a second-class android with simple AI, to avoid capture by inspectors. Click here to read the screenplay.
Episode 2: In the Shadow of the Dark (In Progress) Humans hiding in a room pretending to be servs are attacked by artisyns.
Episode 3: Polly Want a Gun (In Progress) The creators of the world’s first sentient supercomputer must come to terms with the consequences of their actions.
Rating: R; Genre: Sci-Fi Drama; Tone: Serious
Countdown from Infinity
Countdown from Infinity is an anthology series set in the future. Each episode documents humanity’s exploration of the stars in different time periods.
Episode 1: Richard and Orion Parsons In 2116, amid a collapsing Earth, a man must choose to either bring his brother or a trusted robot with him. Click here to read the screenplay.
Episode 2: Lily Hess (In Progress) 10 years later, Captain Lily Hess, the leader of spaceship #1, decides to disband the hundreds of other similar ships that are tethered to it.
Rating: R; Genre: Sci-Fi Drama; Tone: Serious