1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Strays, by Robert Wooldridge

    Pete is ruthlessly efficient in his role as loss prevention officer at a grocery store, scanning cameras, ready to catch potential thieves. Feeling the Christmas spirit, he lets a new shoplifter, Nick, off, and buys him shopping. But this is the start of a growing infatuation with the young man, ...

  • TV Screenplay 1st Scene Reading: The Soldier And The Spy, by Mike Garcia

    A CIA operative and a former Green Beret must work together to stage a coup in Chile, 1973 before KGB agents can foil it. (Inspired by true events)

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Danh: Geoff Mays
    Guards/Bryan: Steve Rizzo - 13

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  • Experimental Festival 1st Scene Screenplay: Penelope's War, by Nancy "Sunny" Ellis & Marc L. Ellis

    This absurdist tongue-in-cheek musical comedy is about a sassy, single mom, suffragette, who must save her Colorado mining town from ruin by organizing the women and by joining forces with a colorblind, Victorian, chauvinistic doctor/inventor, who has unwittingly created a sex toy to cure female ...

  • FEMALE Festival TV 1st Scene Screenplay: Sweet Valley Spy

    Liza has a budding career at a pharmaceutical company. Her twin sister, Jess, talks to a bottle of tequila and dates a guy who tells dead-baby jokes. When Liza mysteriously disappears, Jess gets a crash course in the family business - espionage.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Allison
    The Narrator: Geoff...

  • LA Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Miserable People, by Jeff Hindenach

    A young man suffers from the uncanny ability to absorb the worst memories of people he comes into physical contact with, which forces him into a lonely life of seclusion. But when he starts seeing happy memories for the first time in his life, he embarks on a mission to find the woman from the fl...

  • COMEDY Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: Stazie In The Spotlight, by Christina Hodel

    Stazie Sattler, 16, is part of the popular family band trio: The Garage Grrrlz. While her mom, Meg, and sister, Cora, are alongside her as musicians and vocalists, Stazie yearns to headline her own Las Vegas show. The teen singing sensation’s attempts at a solo career go awry when she tries to ad...

  • DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Script: QUASH, by John McCarney

    Inspired by true events... A Vietnam Vet on the verge of
    homelessness, loses custody of his children and will do anything to
    get them back. He takes a job with a community service group in the
    middle of a gang war and is confronted with more than he bargained
    for, thrown into the center of the de...

  • ACTION Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: Orpheus, by Richard Giarraffa

    Set in Ancient Greece, our protagonist Orpheus gets entangled with the god Apollo, who teaches him how to play his lyre, becoming a muse and an instrument used by gods for their bidding. Within the year he turns 18, Orpheus performs alongside other Apollo protégés and is chosen to go abroad with ...

  • DIVERSITY 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: KILT, by Ron Leach, Kristian Hodko

    The forbidden love affair between a dashing young Scottish soldier and his superior officer, in the Second World War, bears remarkable fruit when his grandson attends his funeral 50 years later.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Lavery: Geoff Mays
    General Donaldson: Andy Kamp
    Mac: Sean Ballantyne

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Kevin's Other Kevins, by Gordie Hvolka

    While his small video-game business teeters on failure, KEVIN and his abusive inner voice argue and fight one another. But when Kevin faces a near-death experience, he meets his inner voice and together must resolve their issues or risk never getting back to Kevin’s life on Earth.

    CAST LIST:
    Nar...

  • LA Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Bleed Just Like Us, by EZEKIEL Jeremiah WALKER

    Set at a southern Black college, a conflicted student struggles to find his purpose while those closest to him find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    JJ: Geoff Mays
    Corey: Sean Ballantyne
    Cashier: Allison Kampf

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Gender Reveal Party, by Aaron James Sutch

    A D List celebrity couple’s baby gender results go missing days before the corporate sponsored gender reveal party and they scramble to get the results back before their careers are ruined.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Cash: Geoff Mays
    Blythe: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Journey: Sean Ballantyne

  • 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: And No One Mourned, by Ky Rogers

    When a financial advisor is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he realizes that instead of wasting his time and money on flashy cars and fancy suits, he should’ve spent more on hookers.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Alec: Geoff Mays
    Hot Orderly: Hannah Ehman

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: GRID, by Joshua Tywater

    An altruistic engineer becomes a fugitive when he's accused of sabotaging the global power grid he helped create.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Niles: Geoff Mays

  • TV Festival 1st Scene Script Reading; SECOND CROSSING, by James Howells

    A rip into a Parallel Universe has opened above a small Colorado town dropping a corpse from the sky and dumping a German U-Boat into a forest. This rip has reinvigorated shady industrialist Frank DeWitt who rules the town with an iron fist. What a first day for new sheriff Jaimie and her new to ...

  • ACTION Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: THE TALE OF JJJ & THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS, by Jacobo Fe

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    David: Allan Michael Brunet
    Mick: Steve Rizzo
    MALAYSIAN PROSTITUTE: Kyana Teresa

  • 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: Demonology, by Joseph Bronzi, Lindsay Gelfand, Buddy Fitzpatrick

    Homicide Detective Harry Frye has a gift for infuriating women. His new partner Millie (who had rage issues before Harry) is pregnant, so working with her is like playing Twister in a minefield. His daughter is working off 'Daddy Issues' in a Strip club, and his AA Sponsor is so in love with Harr...

  • LGBT Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Sugar, by Sayde Hampton

    In the summer before college, Alexa takes her young sister, Emmy, on a road trip across the country.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Alexas: Kyana Teresa
    Emmy: Hannah Ehman
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  • Winning 1st Scene Script Reading: The Untimely Death of Herbert Sullivan, by Tash Ann, Ben Barker

    When a man realizes that the mysterious company he works for may be responsible for the death of his girlfriend, he begins down a path to unravel a national conspiracy.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Voice on Radio: Allan Michael Brunet
    Brother Colin: Steve Rizz

  • LGBT Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: False Positive, by Eleni Vosinaki

    When an asexual writer gets challenged out of her small life by her larger-than-life best friend, she explores how far she is willing to go for a bit of respect and a chance to belong.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Val Cole
    Mary: Kyana Teresa
    John: Allan Michael Brunet
    Damien: Steve Rizzo
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  • LA Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: The Only Boy In New York, by Robyn Gudgell

    2 years after the apocalypse, the only boy left behind takes a cross country road trip through an empty United States of America to see if he truly is alone, but his inability to let go off the past proves the trip to be harder than expected.

    CAST LIST
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Nick: Alla...

  • LGBT Festival 1st Scenes Script Reading: COME ALIVE, by L. Andrew Cooper

    A middle-aged gay couple’s attempt to rekindle their relationship turns into an absurd, hormone-fueled quest to defeat alien invaders and save a new LGBTQ society.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Alvy: Bill Poulin
    Tim: Allan Michael Brunet
    Ron: Steve Rizzo
    Michelle: Julie Sheppard ...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene TV Script Reading: Bedford Arms, by Clea Montville-Wood

    After her father's death and Margo, an evil step-mother by all accounts, stops helping Willa pay for school escaping to Greenwich Village is Willa's only option. Though she doesn't know anyone except her aunt, Willa soon finds a sense of home at Bedford Arms, a place filled with eccentric and str...

  • Winning BLACK Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Home Health Chronicles, by Jason Henderson

    The story is centered around Dr Sincere "Seven" Hart , a physical therapist, who is a home health provider in the National Capital, Washington DC. Sincere traverses the city evaluating and treating patients on a Friday during the Pandemic. Jason has the craziest day on the job. With the pandemic,...