Creative Writing

I’ve been a writer 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 won some awards and acclaim along the way.

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Sketch Comedy

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Screenplays

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Comic Books

"Relentlessly funny.”

“Disgusting, horrifying, amusing."

"Creative genius."

spurn (2001-2011)

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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.)

Some other achievements:
• September, 2007: Received Editor’s Choice picks at Sony’s Crackle site eight times beginning in April 2007.

• 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.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.

PRUDENCE TAYNT:

HOT FEMINIST

(Comedy Web Series, 3 Episode Treatment)

(With Neil Turitz)

Speaks for herself.

BELLE, BOOK, & KANDEL

(Comic Book Series, 1st Issue, Adventure)

(With Neil Turitz)

3 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.”

THE HORROR

(Comic Book Series Treatment, Horror)

(With Neil Turitz)