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First Dateby  Alan Barkley
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A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. They must first navigate the choppy waters of compatibility to see if there is a connection". Exterior location. Two characters.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Invasion of Panamaby  Robert Michael Benn
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In 1989, Noreiga seizes control of Panama. Protagonist (101st Airborne) Robert & President Bush take it back, install democratic Engara, and sip lemonade afterwards in Kentucky.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Aisle Browsingby  Steven Blows
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A run-down man with an active imagination blames his wife for all the wrongs in his life so he searches the aisles of a hardware store in search for the perfect murderous tool.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Little Red Cellsby  Ronald L. Ecker
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A boy whose body produces too much blood finds himself held captive by a partying vampire convention, and he must try to escape before their annual Feast of Blood.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Higher Educationby  Candy Fox
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A college professor tries everything - including an exaggerated strip club dance - to get her zoned out, laptop focused students to pay attention, but to no avail.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
It's My Lifeby  John Porter
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A family drama in which a young Indian-American woman struggles to decide whether to continue living with her parents or to move into an apartment with her American boyfriend.

Genre: Family
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Improv Christmasby  Doug J Robbins
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Two lonely improv actors decide to spend Christmas together.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dark Snowby  Ron Micci
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A sexually repressed woman in her 30s overcomes her inhibitions when she meets a man at an office Christmas party, then races north to her maiden aunt's cabin in the woods to share the joyous news, only to encounter bitterness and jealousy and a poignant parting of the ways.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
She Curses Like a Sailorby  Micheline Birger
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A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York. Two twenty-something artistes and a fifty-something writer explore various facets of whether it is 'ladylike' to curse - or not - in public - a philosophical comedy - of sorts. Are we too brash as a society? Too crass? Maybe - maybe not. You decide! Is America off the hook ? (Copyright Wash. DC) A play/ teleplay.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Perfect Christmas Treeby  Alan Barkley
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When a father and mother visit a Christmas tree lot looking for the right tree for their new home, they discovery that their four-year-old daughter has her own idea of what constitutes the perfect tree.

Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Bodyguard. 2. Going Homeby  Anthony Toni
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After over 30 years working as a Bodyguard you're now approaching 65. You now realize you can't move as fast as you once did. Nor can you see and hear as well. One more BIG job before you call it quits? Fiction but based on a real life job assignment.

Genre: Action/Adventure
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Loudest Clapby  Kudzai Zigarwi
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A down-and-out young man, written off by his parents and surrounded by failure, finds unlikely healing by clapping for strangers at their celebrationsuntil his selfless joy sparks a transformation that leads the applause back to him.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Pledge to Murderby  Elliot Stanton
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The fog shrouding a horrific murder is about to get thicker. The evil spectre of Jack the Ripper returns to Victorian London after the gruesome murder of a prominent politician's murder.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Cupidby  Janet Prescott
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A serial killer in real life proves a hard habit to break for Cupid in the after-life.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Jefferson in Parisby  Robert Michael Benn
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Jefferson is in Paris during the French Revolution with his unhappy slave Mary Hemmings. Bonaparte captures much Europe and the Middle East. Jefferson deals with Directory and many guillotined royalties. He must return to Washington.

Genre: Biographical
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Spider Daddyby  Wayne E. Johnson
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An eleven-year-old boy, fixated on horror comics and monsters, finds that his recurring nightmares become reality with devastating results for his abusive, alcoholic stepfather and, ultimately, for him.

Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Latin-American Victimby  Jason Kirman
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The police find two young women of Hispanic appearance in different locations. Roberto, who is the former of the two victims, is suspected of their murders but he suddenly disappears.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Killergartenby  Chris Fell
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Being devoted assassins and parents makes up for a healthy work-life-death balance.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Special Guestby  DJ Robbins
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An eccentric college improv class meets on December 23rd for the last time before Christmas break.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Real Name Unknownby  Robert Michael Benn
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Hooked on Fentanyl, Emily enters the adult film industry but is saved by Synanon in Santa Monica where she becomes a drug counselor.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
First Dateby  Alan & Linda Barkley
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A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. Their date hits choppy waters until they discover a connection. Exterior location. Two characters. (Finalist in the 2025 Woods Hole Screenplay competition).

Genre: Romance
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Beach Dayby  Derek L. Polen
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A beach-loathing dad is pushed out of his comfort zone when he agrees to take his family to the beach.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shadow Among Usby  Christine LARA
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A gathering among friends turns into a nightmare when strange events begin to unfold in an isolated house deep in the forest. Trapped and confronted with their own secrets, they realize that one of them is not who they claim to be.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Back On The Couchby  Elliot Stanton
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Tables are turned, and seating arrangements are swapped when a patient sneakily becomes the psychiatrist.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Iran Attacked Us with AIby  Robert Michael Benn
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It's the near future, Iran attacks us with AI weapons, but we respond with B2 bombers. Iran is defeated and now has no nuclear capability. A happy ending!

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Reckoning Beckonsby  Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
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A ruthless banker with terminal leukemia begs his estranged, destitute brother for a lifesaving bone marrow donation, only to discover a dark family secret that turns his desperation into a deadly schemeand poetic justice.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
DB Cooperby  Robert Michael Benn
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DB jumps from a 727 with $500K, falls in love with Andrea, organizes a gang to rob Brinks warehouse. In the meantime: visits Alaska, Seattle, Avalon and Highway 1. Meets Ron Kovich at VA hospital where Viet Nam war is disputed. The gang fights during the split-up meeting. The Viet Nam war ends. DB and Andrea fly to Rome, buy a condo and vow to never return to the US.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Wedding Dressby  Christine Lara
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An extraordinary wedding dress becomes the silent witness to stories of love and resilience across generations. From its origins in 1904, worn by a Russian princess, to a contemporary bride who discovers its magic in a charity shop, the dress transcends time, illuminating the most precious moments of every woman who wears it.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Swingin' Deadby  Jason K. Allen
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A zombie desires to dance like his hero, Fred Astaire. But first he must find a willing teacher. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 main actors. Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stalingrad, Six Months in Hellby  Robert Michael Benn
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It's 1943 & the bloodiest battle in history occurs, Stalingrad. Blockbuster with $10 million special effects and cast budget.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
What Day Is It?by  Bill Rutkoski
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A struggling actor wakes up each day to find the calendar reshuffledMondays vanish, Fridays repeat, and Saturdays won't let go. But when he witnesses the same murder three times in one looping Saturday, he must stop the crime before time skips away for good.

Genre: Other
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
I Heart Jodyby  Doug J Robbins
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A serial killer gets distracted by his favorite sitcom when about to enter a potential victim's home.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
S'moresby  Jason K. Allen
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Young Eric and Molly are having the time of their lives roasting marshmallows over the campfire. Their parents, not so much... (Horror/Comedy. One location, two actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Rendezvousby  Paul Byrne
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A paralyzed teenager from the hood meets his rich girlfriend one last time to see if their love has survived his drug dealing days.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love & Laughterby  Deogratias Nyakiki
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Four best friends explore the hilarity and absurdity of love in a series of three-minute vignettes, revealing that sometimes laughter is the best remedy for heartbreak.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
About a Bearby  S.C. Smith
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An aging TV writer desperate for a comeback pitches a last-ditch movie about a vengeful bear to a Hollywood producer, only to watch his hopes unravel as the industry leaves him behind.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Badlandsby  Pamela Schott
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When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life being the "perfect" everything daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to make an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Make Haste Slowlyby  John Porter
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Doc Holliday shares some wisdom with the outlaw Dave Rudabaugh--then meets Wyatt Earp.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Haunting of the Highwayby  Kudzai Zigarwi
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On a deserted highway, a guilt-ridden man picks up a mysterious hitchhiker only to discover she's connected to the very tragedy he tried to forget, and this drive may be his only chance at redemption... or reckoning.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Winds of Kandaharby  PAUL BYRNE
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Racing the clock on 9/11, a two-fisted female private eye goes head-to-head with a terrorist sleeper cell and risks everything to save the Pentagon on that fateful day.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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