SHORT SCREENPLAY READINGS

SHORT SCREENPLAY READINGS

Full winning short screenplay readings.

SHORT SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • SHORT Screenplay: Love Santa, by Jim Newton

    Synopsis: A Mall Santa is having a bad day, until a young boy shows him love.

    CAST LIST::

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Marcus: Geoff Mays
    Store Manager: Val Cole
    Young Boy: Andy Camp

  • Short Screenplay: The Last Asylum, by Mitch Finn

    Mitch Finn
    "The Last Asylum"
    Horror

    LOG: In an apocalyptic future of environmental collapse, a patient is admitted to a ward for reconditioning to become a happy clam.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehma
    Doctor Summer: Geoff Mays
    Justine: Val Cole

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY SHORT Script: UNCHOSEN, by Alexander James Dingeman (interview)

    When the Chosen One abandons their quest, the world turns to... someone.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Old Man/Oracle: Shawn Devlin
    Fortus/Guard/Malvir: Geoff Mays
    Farmhand/Aurum: Sean Ballantyne
    Ebrius/Crier: Steve Rizzo
    Servant/Bartender: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

    Get to know the ...

  • COMEDY Festival SHORT Script: Biscuit Bombshell, by Mary Beth McDaniel

    In this comedic scene, a family is gathered around a diner table enjoying a meal. The centerpiece of the table is a basket of Grandma's Homemade Butter Biscuits, with only one remaining. Tension arises as each family member tries to claim the last biscuit for themselves. Arguments and taunting en...

  • SHORT Script Reading: HOME, by Peter Schuyler

    Genre: Horror

    Everyone has to do their part.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Sylvia: Hannah Ehman

  • SHORT Script Reading: The Mystery of the Skull, by Martin Stolp

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Claude: Shawn Devlin
    Bert: Geoff Mays

  • SHORT Script Reading: Ms. Malikins, by Mac McCord ((interview)

    A man has a strange encounter in a graveyard.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Cat: Hannah Ehman
    Ms Malikins: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

    Get to know the writer:

    1: What is the screenplay about?

    It introduces Ms Malikins and her companion, Cat,( both are sentient cats with a mission),a...

  • Short Script: COLUMBIA, by Pamela PerryGoulardt

    GENRE: DRAMA

    For the safety of her family, an exotic dancer agrees to steal an image of her Great-Great-Great Grandfather, a notorious officer in the Russian Revolution, before it goes on public display.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Columbia: Hannah Ehman
    Dmitry: Geoff Mays

  • Short Script: BEING JIMMY, by Mary Jeddore Blakney

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Melissa: Hannah Ehman
    Olly: Geoff Mays
    Jimmy: Sean Ballantyne

  • SHORT Screenplay: TAKE THE PLUNGE, by Gabrielle WIlliams (interview)

    Genre: Family

    Synopsis: A son is scared to jump off of the diving board, so the dad helps him build up the courage.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Son: Geoff Mays
    Dad : Sean Ballantyne

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    My screenplay is about a fat...

  • Short Script: CARMEN, by D.Tina Batten and Jean Louis

    In a split second decision, a teenage girl has a devastating experience that changes the course of her newly found reality.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne -
    Carmen: Hannah Ehman
    Coach Davis: Geoff Mays
    Maria: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • 1pg Short Script: Net Calculation, by Kevin Mongelli (interview)

    Comedy

    A man is playing a novelty basketball game poorly. He is then heckled and a challenge ensues. Was his performance real or fake?

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Ricky: Geoff Mays
    Ruben: Steve Rizzo

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    Net Calculat...

  • SHORT Screenplay: The Betrayal, by Bob Messinger

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Conrad: Shawn Devin
    Irwin: Sean Ballantyne

  • SHORT Screenplay: Mystery Man, by Bruce Graham

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    VOICE OVER: Sean Ballantyne

  • LA Festival SHORT Screenplay: WITHIN THE WALLS, by Juan Belardi

    In 1914, a thief masquerading as a nurse uncovers a sinister presence when she attempts to steal from a hospital that was once home to a mysterious baroness.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Mr. Pembry: Steve Rizzo
    Mr. Fowler: Sean Ballantyne
    Madeleine: Hannah Ehman
    Old Soldier: Shawn Devlin
    ...

  • DIVERSITY Festival SHORT Script: HOT PINK, by Piper Supplee

    A high school girl confronts her repression when her two best friends discover that she has never masturbated before.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Roman: Sean Ballantyne
    Lila: Hannah Ehman
    Daphne: Val Cole
    Owen: Shawn Devlin

  • Short Script: DEMOCRACY OF COURSE, by Rajko Stiglic

  • SHORT Screenplay Reading: THE LIGHT AT THE END, by Lynda Simmons (interview)

    A woman caring for a husband with Alzheimer's must choose between a treatment that will extend his life or let the long goodbye and the existence that has become her new normal come to an end .

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Alfreida: Val Cole
    Carl: Geoff Mays
    Neil: Steve Rizzo
    JennaHannah...

  • ROMANCE Festival TV PILOT Reading: 30 WAYS, by Maxie Dara, Caroline Concordia

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Cassie: Kyana Teresa
    Janice: Val Cole
    Ziggy: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Ex/Man: Sean Ballantyne
    Pharmacist/Tattoo Client: Geoff Mays
    Psychiatrist/Woman: Hannah Ehman

  • ANIMATION Festival SHORT Screenplay: TO BE GREAT, by Andréanne Milette

    When comet debris containing life crashes into a biosphere on a colonized frozen planet, Martha, the captain of a Biosphere facility, must save the team botanist from a rapidly growing alien fungus trap and overcome hallucinations caused by its spores or risk losing her whole team to a similar fa...

  • Chicago Festival SHORT Screenplay: DAVID'S CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, by Michael Moore

    In the late 1960s college freshman David and high school junior Jimmy discover a new understanding of their friendship. Although they must keep their feelings for each other hidden, they enjoy the developing closeness until an indiscretion threatens to ruin everything.

    Narrator: Val Cole
    David:...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Short Screenplay: OKORO, by Gregory Earls (interview)

    A scientist explores the choice between benevolence and hostility as he tries to guide his artificial human toward humanity.

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Computer: Hannah Ehman
    Tablet: Steve Rizzo
    Dr. Woods: Geoff Mays
    Okoro: Sean Ballantyne

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your s...

  • HORROR Festival SHORT Screenplay: HAN, by Esther Um

    A young Korean woman is haunted by a ghostly figure, in the aftermath of her mother's death.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Grocery Employee/Sarah's Father: Geoff Mays
    Young Sarah/Sarah: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Jason: Steve Rizzo

  • Winning SHORT Screenplay: 9066, by Cassie Phillips

    This is a snapshot into the moment one Japanese-American family is forced from their home to live in an internment camp during World War Two, and what happens when one family member refuses to leave.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Canon: Sean Ballantyne
    Joseph: Steve Rizzo
    Miyoko: Hannah Eh...