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One-Hour Drama Series: Co-Created with Stacy Spruill (Based on a true story and the book, Unlucky Number by Deborah Mathis & Gregory Todd Smith) A Black, female police detective teams up with the friend of a Black multimillion dollar lottery winner, who disappears after entrusting a charming but sociopathic con woman with his fortune. Hell-bent on busting this unhinged woman for murder, the detective and her informant pull out all the stops, including an elaborate con of their own. Dee Dee Moore is now serving life in prison. Pilot available. Season overview: View Season Overview

Limited One-Hour Dramedy Series based on the novel by award-winning author, Molly Giles (Leapfrog Press, August 2023). A newly divorced, barely sober single mom, pushing 45, is coerced by her tyrannical father to move back into "The Castle," her Marin County childhood home, to oversee renovations with the promise of reaping the sales proceeds. As soon as she and her teenage son settle in, the men start coming: Her ex-husband, her brother, her lover, her ex-boyfriend, and, finally, her father, all step over the new welcome mat and move in with no intention of leaving. Pitchdeck available: View Pitchdeck

One-Hour Drama Series: Based on the bestselling novel series by Gregg Olsen. Detective Nicole Foster hits rocks bottom when her cop partner and lover, Danny Ford, implicates her in the forced confession of a child-murder suspect who commits suicide. Suspended from Seattle's Bellevue Police Department, homeless, and recovering from a gambling addiction, she takes extraordinary if not questionable measures to find the killer who took the life of a three-year-old girl, and in the process, exposes a shocking, evil conspiracy among people way too close to her.

One-Hour Drama Series: When a biracial young woman is brutally murdered on Washington State's secluded Lummi Island, a white, Jewish female FBI agent and a Black female deputy team up to solve the complex crime, overcoming life-threatening obstacles.

One-Hour Drama Series (Supernatural elements): When a bi-racial young woman is found brutally stabbed and hanging from an ancient oak on a remote South Carolina Sea Island, a white, Jewish, female FBI agent and a Black, female sheriff's captain are forced to team up to solve what appears to be a hate crime but ends up being a more tragic case of graft and evil. (Reinvented as "Believe Her" above for location change due to possible conflict with existing show. But that one does not seem to have landed. So this one still viable.) Sizzle: View Sizzle

Based on a memoir, chronicling the dark double-life of a drug-addicted teen, growing up in mid-1970's L.A. during the tumultuous "Me Decade," who goes on a perilous journey through California's sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll scene in search of her teen girl lover who has disappeared.

Inspired by a true story; first written as a feature for Martin Scorsese. A family-owned armored trucking business turns corrupt when its matriarch runs off with five million dollars and they must cross the ethical line to stay afloat, while dodging one suspicious FBI agent.

Producer. Emmy-nomination for Outstanding ABC Miniseries. Image Award. Image Award: "Best Miniseries." Optioned novel; Sold/Produced with Harpo Productions/ Hearst Entertainment. Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson, Robin Givens.

Executive Producer. Twentieth Century Fox. Nora Ephron's directorial debut.

Executive Producer, NBC movie. Starring Kirk Douglas. Craig T. Nelson. In association with von Zerneck/Sertner Films.

Producer. Movie-of-the-Week. CBS, 1991. Cast: Julia Duffy, Cindy Williams, Ed Marinaro. Patricia K. Meyer Productions in association with von Zerneck/Sertner Films.

Executive Producer. Movie-of-the-Week. NBC, 1993. Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Corbin Bernsen. Patricia K. Meyer Productions in association with von Zerneck/Sertner Films.

Executive Producer. Movie-of-the-Week. CBS, 1996. Humanitas Award-nominee. Cast: Jill Eikenberry and Laura Leighton. In association with von Zerneck/Sertner Films.

(CBS) Pitched and sold one-hour drama series. Pilot written. Creator/Executive Producer with Exec. Producer: Jonathan Levin.

(Lifetime) Sold/adapted novel by Angela Hunt. Executive Producers: Craig Anderson & Beth Grossbard.

(NBC) (Memoir) Executive Producers: Mary Jane and Harry Ufland Productions for Hearst Entertainment and NBC.

(CBS) Four Hour Miniseries adaptation of Gloria Nagy's novel. Producers: Nancy Bein, Judith Leight, Herb Hamsher, Daphna Edwards.

(CBS; Aired 1996) Based on Lavyrle Spencer's best-selling novel.

(True Crime Drama) Based on the book, Was Justice Done, by Benjamin Bennett. Co-written with director Michael Oblowitz https://michaeloblowitz.com/. In Apartheid Cape Town, South Africa, 1974, unstable19-year-old Afrikaner Marlene Lehnberg coerced Marthinus Choegoe, a Cape Coloured man, to murder her married lover's wife, and they both paid a tragic price.

(Action Comedy) An overly dependent widow (52) defies the "break up" she had with her son, a software genius (26), and when his latest app puts him in the crosshairs of some serious bad guys, she rushes headfirst into the breach— sending her to Silicon Valley and parts beyond to free him from his kidnappers.

(Detective Thriller): Set in Honolulu 1959, in a Paradise Lost tragic drama, a Waikiki Beachboy investigates the murder of his lifelong love and exposes the island's corrupt elite hell-bent on destroying his sacred native homelands.

(Family "Traumedy): Based on a published memoir, a tragicomedy about an off-the-grid renegade summoned home by his estranged, terminally ill parents who ask him to assist in their suicides, still a felony in California. Second Round for Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Best of Stage 32 Lookbook: "Top 1% of all Scripts". Austin Film Festival, Second Round. View Video 1 & View Video 2

(Historical Action Thriller): A young woman uses her wiles to overcome harrowing odds as she runs from the law with the vicious Harpe Brothers, America's first serial killers.

(True Crime Drama): A high-profile forensic psychiatrist's world view is challenged when he's hired to evaluate a mentally ill young Navajo man after he murders a deputy during a massive three-day manhunt. Second Round for Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

(True Crime Drama): A renowned Boston-based sports bookie must ally with famed mobster, Whitey Bulger, at his own peril. Producer: Martin Scorsese. Touchstone Pictures

(True Crime Tragicomedy): A woman and her father go from rags to riches by embezzling $38 million from their own armored trucking business. Producer: Martin Scorsese.

(Full-Length Stage Play): When movie producer Judith Golden finally lands a long-awaited TV remake deal for her has-been producer father, he rewards her with a killer story idea of his own. Literally. Staged readings @ Pasadena Playhouse (Hothouse Series); the Blank Theater; the Victory Theater

Assistant Professor, Screenwriting. Loyola Marymount University.

Senior Lecturer, Screenwriting. American Film Institute Conservatory.

Tenure-Track Screenwriting Professor. Chapman University/Dodge School of Film & Television

Summer Staff Instructor, Community of Writers, Olympic Valley, CA

Boston University, MFA, Fiction Writing

Harvard University, BA, History & Literature

Writers Guild of America, West

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Association of Writers and Writing Programs