Creative Writing | Sketch Comedy, Screenplays & Web | Ross A. McIntyre
CREATIVE WRITING

Sketch Comedy, Screenplays & More

I’ve been a writer even longer than I've been strategizing. As such, I have written a number of things, ranging from sketch comedy to comic books to my first literary fiction novel—and I’ve picked up some awards and modest acclaim along the way.
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SKETCH COMEDY

spurn: NYC sketch, turned up

A decade of live shows, weird premises, and sincere jokes that somehow kept getting four‑star reviews.
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“Relentlessly funny.”
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“Disgusting. Horrifying. Amusing.”
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“Creative genius.”
spurn (2001–2011)
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  • September 2007: Received Editor’s Choice picks at Sony’s Crackle eight times beginning in April 2007.
  • May 2007: spurn video podcasts are downloaded 30k times each day.
  • March 2007: spurn video podcasts are the featured selection at Veoh.
  • February 2007: spurn video podcasts are the featured comedy selection at the iTunes Store.
  • October 2006: TimeOut NY gives spurn 4 stars in its Oct 19th issue.
  • August 2004: Opened the NY International Fringe Festival to sold-out crowds at the SoHo Playhouse.

For over 10 years (2001–2011), I wrote, produced and performed with NYC-based comedy group spurn. I was intimately involved in all 14 productions, and we performed at off– and off–off Broadway venues ranging from the SoHo Playhouse to the 13th Street Repertory.

The group was a pioneer in offering online video podcasts of short films through various platforms. We received numerous online awards from different video providers (some of whom no longer exist). To get a sense of time and place, know that spurn was the very first comedy group featured by MySpace. (That’s right, muthafuckin’ MySpace!)

Our work and more detail on the group can be found on the still-operative website. A few years after our final performance, we released a compendium of our sketch writing for use by burgeoning sketch comedy groups around the world.

SCREEN & SEQUENTIAL

Screenplays, Television, & Web

Film, television, web series, and comic book concepts that orbit comedy, genre, and the occasional multiverse.
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UNABRIDGED
2nd Place, 2003 New Century Writer’s Awards · Romantic Comedy Screenplay
“The lead editor of the Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary struggles to communicate (despite his prodigious vocabulary) as he navigates the NYC dating scene. Hijinks ensue.”
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OLD WAR
Action Comedy Screenplay
“An elderly nursing home resident awakes to his past as a secret agent after hearing a coded message on TV and must gather his past allies to uncover a new Russian threat and defeat his arch-nemesis: The Jackal. Hijinks ensue.”
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SUPER-POSITION
Comedy Screenplay
“A building superintendent finds a portal to the multiverse in the boiler room and must contend with parallel versions of himself as he struggles to seal the rift that now threatens the universe itself. Hijinks ensue.”
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SOVEREIGN NATION
Action Comedy Screenplay · With Brian Konowal
Two college roommates purchase a nuclear bomb over the Internet and declare their apartment a sovereign nation. Hijinks ensue.
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DAMNED
TV Treatment · Black Comedy · With Neil Turitz
After 66 damned souls escape hell during the once-a-millenia Day Off, a washed-up detective must team up with The Devil to return the freed souls to their eternal punishment while trying to achieve salvation for himself.
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PILOT
TV Treatment · 2 Episodes · Comedy
Every week, a new pilot episode of a heretofore unseen show performed by the same actors. Pilot lampoons the tropes while undermining expectations of what a show could (or should) be. 2 teleplays: “Don't Trust Whitey” and “Murder on Lane Street Avenue.”
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PRUDENCE TAYNT: HOT FEMINIST
Comedy Web Series · 3 Episode Treatment · With Neil Turitz
Speaks for herself.
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BELLE, BOOK, & KANDEL
Comic Book Series · 1st Issue · Adventure · With Neil Turitz
Three hapless immortal rivals unify to destroy civilization and gain vengeance on those who have wronged them across their many years on Earth. “Belle, Book, and Kandel: Ending the world since 8000 BCE.”
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THE HORROR
Comic Book Series Treatment · Horror · With Neil Turitz
A corrupt NYPD detective is recruited by the Devil to hunt 67 escaped souls unleashed on Earth during Hell’s holiday. As grotesque visions guide his kills, his fractured memories hint that the final, most dangerous soul may be his own.
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KARMA, INC.
Comic Book Series Treatment · Action · With Neil Turitz
A clandestine outfit called Karma, Inc. sells bespoke revenge by sending an invisible “specialist” into targets’ lives to make them suffer. As operatives Caruthers and Avery work their cases, they’re dragged into a deadly struggle over a device that can answer any question.
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LUCKY
Comic Book Series Treatment · Action · With Neil Turitz
A tale of improbable survivals and the cost of weaponized fortune—told through a protagonist who discovers that every lucky break has been purchased with someone else’s suffering.
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IN DEVELOPMENT
Feature / Series Concepts
Additional feature, television, and graphic storytelling work in various stages of development and revision.