1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: A Misnamed Fate, by Chelsea Lin

    The dark side of relationships and suburban life, where secrets amongst friends ruin lives and betrayal has deadly consequences.

    https://www.instagram.com/cheezylin

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Stacy: Val Cole
    Dan: Geoff Mays

  • WILDsound Festival 1st Scene: Blue Idaho, by Noah Zayn Mortier

    A grieving widower and a trans nurse confront faith, loss, and identity on a road trip that forces them to reconcile their past with the possibility of love.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Richard: Geoff Mays
    Blue: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • THRILLER Festival 1st Scene: DHARMA, by Vee G Kumari

    When an archeologist is murdered with a hindu statue, an art professor must get to the bottom of the death while revealing past mysteries.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Rekha: Val Cole

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: NEXT STOP: HELL'S END, by Walter Hochbrueckner

    Nikki is in need of a new life, she flees from her abusive husband to become a stripper in a small town.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Eva: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Barb: Val Cole

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: Sinner? I Barely Know Her!, by Adelaide Young

    While trying to explore her sexuality, 17-year-old Maggie struggles with her religious OCD and comes face to face with questions that seem too hard to answer. What should we take from religion? What should we do when we feel religion is taking from us?

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morri...

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Owners, by Nick Nelson

    When a wildlife photographer’s bush plane crashes in remote Alaska, he and his girlfriend must survive a brutal game of cat & mouse with a family of fugitives eliminating witnesses, but the real danger may be what survival turns him into.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Nick: Geoff Mays
    Sara: Eli...

  • 1st Scene TV Spec Script Reading of THE BEAR, by David Case (Comedy Festival)

    On the anniversary of Mikey’s death Carmy gets news that his tormentor, David Fields, is coming to review the restaurant.. things derail when Carmy severely burns his arm.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Carmy: Geoff Mays
    Richie: Shawn Devlin

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Stained Glass Window, by Kristin Francoeur

    Lily Brannan, a very successful writer who lives in Boston, finds out that her hated great-aunt is dead. When the will is read, Lily is shocked that beside the expected inheritance, she also now owns a mysterious house in Vermont. Planning to go see it, then put it on the market, Lily visits the ...

  • WILDsound 1st Scene Reading: The Twelve Days, by Brent L.Peterson

    A small-town Christmas shop owner is devastated on Christmas Eve when she finds out she can not have children. The next morning she wakes up in an apocalyptic future where only children remain. There, she works to restore peace between two warring tribes of kids by teaching them the gift-giving t...

  • HORROR Festival Best Scene Reading: Friend, by Gordon Graveley

    https://youtu.be/EWGQUH6nsuk

    "Friend" follows the heading-for-divorce parents of a precocious nine-year-old who befriends an older, intellectually disabled man. Friend is in a great place—well written and with a strong premise.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Reagan: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    K...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: THE LAST BLOCK, by Miguel Camacho

    In 2140, a "perfect" existence is maintained by advanced AI. As the defining "Last Block" event looms, Elian is compelled to seek true reality, whatever its cost.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    AI Voice: Shawn Devlin
    Elian: Geoff Mays

  • 1st Scene: THE BREAKING OF BOB HOWARD TV Pilot by George R Strayton (interview)

    Pilot Episode: "Black Luck and Red Doom"
    In 1930s Texas, pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard battles both external pressures and internal demons as he creates the legendary Conan the Barbarian. When his beloved mother Hester falls gravely ill with tuberculosis, Bob struggles to maintain his sani...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Art of Denial, by Hannah Augenstine

    The Art of Denial follows Emily, a playwright who finds the courage to write and put herself out there after the death of her father figure/ mentor. The Art of Denial has a sweet premise but lacks specific character motives, a strong setup, and a realistic arc.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth ...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival First Scene: The Urning - Life and Times of a Gay Rights Pioneer

    "Hambach Awakening" - Pilot episode of a limited series on the life and times of Karl Heinrichs Ulrichs - a German gay rights pioneer and scholar who wrote the first queer theory known to the LGBTQ movement, published the first gay magazine, and used his privilege and law degree to go into battle...

  • DRAMA Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Lonely Wish, by Nick McCabe

    When a troubled teen’s wish to make everyone disappear comes true, she risks losing them permanently and must rely on an unlikely ally to save her town – the school bully.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Sean Ballantyne
    Miriam; Val Cole
    Linda: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is...

  • ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene: The Labyrinth, by Nicholas J. Szegedi (interview)

    When a successful aerospace engineer is sabotaged by a vengeful business rival and haunted by two failed marriages, he embarks on an international journey of self-discovery with newfound hope and determination. Based on actual events.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Michael: Shawn Devlin
    Dav...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene:The Octopus's Garden, by Ed Moran (interview)

    A delightful blend of adventure and emotional depth, reminiscent of films like "Finding Nemo," where the bond between characters drives the narrative through perilous waters. I thought of "The Shape of Water" as well, with its unique exploration of relationships between humans and extraordinary c...

  • ACTION/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: VITRUVIAN WOMAN, by L. Petruska

    Jack Teller is an established science writer whose young scientist mother died of a terrible poisoning shortly after he was born. His father lived in complete denial and also groomed Jack not to ask questions about his mother at all. Now a grown man in his 50s, Jack receives a cryptic email from ...

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: LIFELESS "The Crown Falls" TV, by Meredith Stack

    Over two decades since the resurrection of the dead, survivors revert back to the medieval times for survival. Kingdoms are built and fall. Survivors must learn to survive in a world where new leaders are raised into power and the new evolution of the dead.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Re...

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: Grad Nite, by Sion-Raize (interview)

    While enjoying an overnight celebration at a regional theme park, a group of graduating high school students are targeted by a vicious killer wearing a dragon mask.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Mr. Randol: Sean Ballantyne
    Gracyn: Geoff Mays

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is ...

  • EXPERIMENTAL Festival First Scene: Death in Poland, by Grant Huffman

    An unflinching, brutally honest portrayal of the Holocaust's most infamous death camps, *Death in Poland* chronicles the systematic machinery of genocide through a series of interwoven scenes of cruelty, precision, and silence—where memory is the only thing left standing.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: ...

  • LGBTQ+ 1st Scene Reading: Canoe, by Ron Wayne Kennell

    When a hot shot architect inherits his grandfather’s remote cabin, the locals become restless and reveal secrets he can no longer ignore.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Trudy: Hannah Ehman
    Tristan: Geoff Mays

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: WALKING OVER WET PAINT, by Judy Taylor

    A snarky book nerd may find love, but only if she's willing to come out of her oh-so-cozy she..

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Trisha: Val Cole
    Henry: Shawn Delvin

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: MAD HOUSE, by Katie Arias

    Autumn is struggling to keep her financial situation above the poverty line. With a crappy apartment, no real stability or even groceries her apartment seems to be the hub of entertainment for Saira & Malcolm even though they are much better off. 

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Malcolm: Sha...