Writing Samples (TV, feature & adaptation)
TV Pilots (Original)
Peachy Beachy Summer! — 22-min animated comedy
In a perpetually sunny beach town, the teen crew of the Peachy Beachy smoothie bar are chasing the ultimate surfer’s dream: an endless summer. But with chaotic tourists, clueless managers, and a rival Halloween-themed café across the street, their chill paradise is anything but smooth.
So There’s a Ghost in My Coffee and I Don’t Know What to Do! — 22-min animated comedy
Sixteen-year-old Knicole lands her first summer job at The Dark Lantern, a Halloween-themed coffee shop on the beach—only to discover half her coworkers are ghosts. Between meddling vampires, pumpkins that bite back, and a rivalry with the smoothie bar across the street, Knicole’s about to learn customer service is a real nightmare.
TV Samples (Spec scripts)
Bob’s Burgers: “Bob’s Books, Beach Mice, and Body Scrubs” — 22-min animated spec
Linda turns the restaurant into a literary café to attract fancier customers, while Louise scams the public with a fake nonprofit for endangered rodents, Tina attempts to find inner peace at a Nordic spa, and Gene debuts a new stand-up act that tests everyone’s nerves.
☆ 2022 Austin Film Festival Script Competition Finalist in “Comedy Teleplay Spec” category ☆
Scooby-Doo: “Haunted: Those Meddling Kids: The Wane of Whitney Woods” — 22-min animated spec
Haunted: Those Meddling Kids reimagines the Scooby-Doo gang as traumatized teens battling real monsters in a world that refuses to believe them. As survivor’s guilt and isolation mount, Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Scooby must face supernatural horrors and genuine evil. In this episode, the gang travels to rural Louisiana, where a sinister spirit has possessed a young boy’s father.
Feature SCRIPTS (Original)
Sea Breeze Academy — coming-of-age thriller–comedy
A group of picture-perfect teens at an elite beachside boarding school begin to unravel when they realize their lives are just episodes in a manufactured tween sitcom. Sea Breeze Academy is a surreal takedown of the Disney Channel generation and what it costs to smile on cue.
Skylines — Young Adult drama
Bonded by a shared passion for cars, two college students form an almost-love that never quite ignites, forcing them to navigate messy relationships and parallel personal growth as they struggle to let go—or finally face—the roads not taken. Co-written with Betty Yang.
Feature Adaptation
Dandelion Wine — Young Adult drama, based on the novel by Ray Bradbury
In the summer of 1928, twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding comes of age in a quiet Illinois town, discovering the fragile beauty of life, the ache of mortality, and the wonder hidden in ordinary moments—all bottled into the memory-soaked ritual of dandelion wine.