ORIGINAL SCRIPTS
CALL ME DEBRA – Feature Screenplay, Dramatic Biopic
When a Black Baptist minister comes out as a trans woman, she fights against a world that wants to erase her in order to reclaim joy and live as her authentic self.
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Nominee: Script Awards Los Angeles
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Honorable Mention: Hollywood Script Awards
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Official Selection: Oxford Screenplay Competition
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Quarter-Finalist: Unique Voices Screenwriting Competition
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WELCOME TO HAZARDVILLE – TV Pilot, Comedy Series
An apocalyptic suburban comedy about the ultimate battle of WOKE vs. MAGA.
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Nominee: Georgia Comedy Film Festival - Best Comedy Series Teleplay Award
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UPROAR – TV Pilot, Limited Series
Secrets tear apart an affluent African American family living in Westchester in the 1980s.
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Semi-Finalist: Page Turner Screenplays - First 15 Competition
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Quarter-Finalist: Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition
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PANSY – Feature screenplay, Drama
An isolated gay teen meets a 33 year old man in an AOL chat room and has to keep their relationship secret from his conservative Catholic parents.
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Emerging Narrative Screenplay Award - IFP Market
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Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
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Rhode Island Film Festival Screenplay Competition “Barren Branches Award”
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Short-list of 20 – Sundance Institute Feature Film Program
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CHICAS MALAS – Feature screenplay, Comedy
Coming-of-age comedy about American teenagers on an exchange program in Mexico.
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Finalist – Hollywood Screenplay Contest
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MUHAMMAD AND MARY – Feature screenplay, Drama
An ill-fated love story between a retired Catholic school teacher and a Muslim taxi driver.
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Panasonic Digital Filmmaking Grant - IFP Market
FILMOGRAPHY
LOOK AT LUCAS
March 2019
10 minutes
A young boy wants to play with his mother at the beach but first he has to get her off her phone.
UNCLE STEPHANIE
June 2014
18 minutes
A college student shoots a documentary about his colorful uncle, an aspiring transgender cabaret star from New York City, and learns more about his family than he ever wanted to know.
THE PROM QUEEN
September 2000
18 minutes
A punk rock gay kid develops an unlikely crush on a boy from the popular crowd and a secret tryst leads to a prom scene that no one will ever forget.
ZEN PARKING
June 2017
11 minutes
A yoga teacher looking for parking is forced to face his rage when someone steals his spot.
THE RED BOOK (Trailer)
April 2012
Trailer for a novel written by Deborah Copaken Kogan, published by Hyperion Books.
THE BEAR
June 1999
A teenage boy's plan to spend a day at the opera is ruined when his father gives him a rifle for his 18th birthday and forces him to go on a hunting expedition.
IFP MARKET
EMERGING NARRATIVE
SCREENPLAY AWARD
Pansy
True Crime Thriller
IFP
MARKET
PANASONIC DIGITAL
FILMMAKING GRANT
Mohammed & Mary
Dark Comedy
Telluride
Film
Festival
FILMMAKER OF TOMORROW
Prom Queen
Short Film