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 Reading: Hungry Hearts, by Ryan O’Leary

    In the early 90’s, two men, a disgruntled Cop and a self-loathing Crook, play the city’s criminal underground and corrupt police department against each other in the pursuit of justice, money and, most dangerously, their budding love.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    Spud: Steve Rizzo
    Stra...

  • LA Festival 1st Scene Script: Suspend Your Disbelief, by Conor Hanney

    A group of neurodiverse teens learns empathy through improv from the worst person in school.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Mia: Kyana Teresa
    Mr. Early: Steve Rizzo
    Girl #1/2: Hannah Ehman

  • TV Festival 1st Scene Reading: NEW OLYMPUS, by Matthew Nicholson

    "The reluctant modern-day descendant of Pandora vows to trap all of the Original Evils back inside her ancestor's cursed box once and for all. Can she claim her destiny as the new owner of Pandora's box before her hometown is overrun by evil?"

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Young Liz/Liz: Kyan...

  • POLITICAL Festival Script Reading: Show me your Teeth, by Scott Liapis

    An undocumented migrant worker on the run from a pack of bloodthirsty vampires, moves to a small meat-packing town in Nebraska in hopes of giving her son a better life. But the increasingly volatile relationship between Mexican workers and white locals might prove a breaking point for them both.
    ...

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival Script Reading: Missing Clayton, by Bev Anne Irwin

    An introverted single mother risks her life to find her kidnapped five-year-old son when the police fail and she can no longer trust those closest to her.

    http://bevirwin.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/bev.irwin.39/

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Clayton: Allan Michael
    Jenny: Kyana Teres...

  • Script Read: The Legend of the Mermaid Tree, by Addie Dobson (writer interview)

    'The Legend of the Mermaid Tree’ is a romance period piece bridging the past to the present on St. Simons Island. Joshua, a goal driven analyst, finally gets the opportunity for a promotion, but has to return to the island after hearing of his grandfather's untimely death. As he packs his grandfa...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Script Reading: 79, by Kacy Boccumini (writer interview)

    Tony Tranero is a Disco dancer at the end of an era, competing in a contest that could change the trajectory of his life. While preparing for this moment, he meets other dancers that are fighting their own battles that force him to confront the real politics of dancing - who gets to stand in the ...

  • FAN FICTION Festival Screenplay: Stranger Things Spec Reading, by Teddy Cadieux

    In an imagined S3 opener, the older kids contend with a summer slinging ice cream and the younger kids struggle to come up with the money to buy a new D&D campaign book.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Night Custodian: Steve Rizzo
    Don: Allan Michael

  • 1st Scene: Reach for the Sky, by Eric William Carlson (writer interview)

    In 1964, a young idealistic industrial arts teacher accepts a teaching job at an economically disadvantaged rural high school. There he defies the bureaucracy – and risks his career - by ignoring the approved curriculum and instead challenges a group of poor performing students to build an airpla...

  • 1st Scene Reading: A Poem to my Love, by Whisper-Lynn Harper (writer interview)

    Kamile is a girl fed up with high school stereotypes, determined to make herself different, however she finds herself falling into them when she falls in love with her best friend.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Kamile: Hannah Ehman
    Cassie: Kyana Teresa

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What i...

  • 1st Scene Screenplay: Empress, by Lisa C. Iannini

    WU JAO , an outspoken half-sister bartered by her step-brother to restore his waning reputation at Imperial Court, is dropped off at the palace gates to become the Emperor’s youngest concubine. Plunged into a breath-taking world of seductively scheming (multi-cultural) concubines, Silk Road polit...

  • 1st Scene Reading: THE RINGMISTRESS, by Pamela PerryGoulardt (writer interview)

    A funambulist battles gem smugglers, pirates, her estranged mother, and the Russian mob, to win the Golden Clown at the Monte Carlo Circus Festival.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Juliette/Dauphine: Kyana Teresa
    Ivan: Allan Michael

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your ...

  • 1st scene screenplay: Marah From Eilat, by Lyter Danielson

    A well respected Detective must face the consequences after he makes a deal with the Devil.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Damiano: Steve Rizzo
    Gasparo: Allan Michael
    Marah: Kyana Teresa

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: BORDERLINE, by Marcelle Sirkus

    After moving back home for a respite following the sudden death of her husband, Mary Wells, 50s, struggles to assert her identity under the wing of her emotionally abusive mother.

    http://marcellesirkus.com/

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Evelyn: Kyana Teresa
    Mary: Hannah Ehman

  • Script Reading: N'Ever Ever After, by Morgan Allison Ross (with interview)

    Interview with writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    This is a screenplay for a television show pilot called "N'Ever Ever After: Introducing Mrs. and Mrs. Robinson..." about the romantic misadventures of wedding planning. Similar to The Office and Abbott Elementary, it's a mockumentary ...

  • It's Always Sunny Spec Script "Charlie's Web", by Theodore George Boozalis

    Charlie is tired of being human and decides to become a rat. The gang must replace him.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Eugenia: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Charlie: Sean Ballatyne

  • 1st Scene Script reading: Origin, by Will Macduff (with interview)

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    Its about who we may be versus who we have been led to be - but also... the difficult decisions we often have to make in the pursuit of self-knowledge. It's not really a creature feature, although i was tempted to write it like that.

    ...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Bite Me, by Andy Palmer, Ben Begley

    To pay for her dream internship, Dusty Douglas returns to the family business she spent the last decade running from… Professional Bass Fishing. Partnered with a cable access fishing show host, Dusty will have to dethrone her own father and perennial champion, Hank “Large Mouth” Douglas, at a sp...

  • LGBTQ+ 1st Scene Reading: Pray the Gay Away, by Michael & Zak Zakar

    Pray The Gay Away (the series) is a half-hour, single-camera comedy based on the real-life misadventures of Middle eastern, gay twins, Michael & Zak Zakar and their ultra-religious family who are obsessed with keeping up appearances but are anything but perfect. 


    Inspired by the best-selling me...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI TV 1st Scene Reading: Light Catchers, by Jarrod Roberts

    To get revenge on a powerful, intergalactic corporation, a lone-wolf criminal must recruit and captain a team to travel into deep space and steal the secret method for faster than light travel.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    News Announcer: Hannah Ehman
    Jack: Geoff Mays
    Biz: Sean Ballatyne

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Serrated, by Julia M. Sauder

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Marta: Hannah Ehman
    Christopher: Geoff Mays
    Lela: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

    Interview with the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    A magazine reporter who travels to Maine to find her missing brother and discovers a family practing voodoo in the hopes...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Terry Stinger Show, by Carlos Perez

    Romeo and Juliet meets Jerry Springer in this Elizabethan parody of the famous talk show.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    Terry: Geoff Mays
    Juliet: Hannah Ehman

    Interview with the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    Taking the characters from Romeo and Juliet and placing them on a...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Hollywood'll Eat, by Jeffrey Kazanjian

    A dark coming of age satire about a young boy trying to break into Hollywood.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    Old Man/Gepetto: Geoff Mays
    Pinnochio: Sean Ballatyne

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Head Block, by Jessica Sadler

    Cherry Ann Bigman hopes to hang up her casual-sex shoes for something more substantial. Unfortunately, online dating chews her up and spits her out. So she takes up a new hobby--MMA fighting--and once she stops seeking, what she wants finds her.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Cherry Ann: Hann...