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🎧 KILLER CARGO — Act Two | Written by Heather Foster Christmas Eve. Branson, Missouri. One deserted airport. One forty-foot Christmas tree. One passenger who was never supposed to get off the plane. Flight attendant Anita Fitzgerald and her insufferable copilot, Kevin Powers, have somehow survived the flight from hell. The jet is on the ground, the cabin door is shut, and whatever crawled out of that mysterious cargo pod is safely locked inside. Or so they think. While Kevin self-medicates with stolen whiskey and a Santa hat, Anita waits for their billionaire boss to arrive with help. Meanwhile, a foul-mouthed cleaning woman is having a spectacularly bad night, the Christmas decorations are about to become a serious liability, and something very hungry has discovered the joys of airport travel. Turns out surviving the flight was the easy part. KILLER CARGO is back with more mayhem, more questionable decisions, and a rapidly growing alien with absolutely no respect for personal space. The terminal is closed,…

🎧 KILLER CARGO | Act One | Written by Heather Foster Christmas Eve. Springfield, Missouri. One luxury jet. One secret shipment. One spectacularly bad idea. For flight attendant Anita Fitzgerald, the night is already complicated. She's sleeping with a married captain, dodging the advances of an insufferable copilot, and trying to survive another holiday in the service of the obscenely wealthy. Then three nervous men board with a six-foot, frosted-white container. Nobody will say what's inside. Nobody wants to be near it. And somewhere over Missouri, something starts moving. KILLER CARGO is a wickedly funny, gloriously twisted sci-fi horror ride where the seats are leather, the liquor is top-shelf, and turbulence is the least of anyone's problems. Featuring Ashley Bell as Anita Fitzgerald, Darin Toonder as Kevin Powers, Shaan Sharma as Captain Charles Song, Jade Tailor as Daria Jagoda, Charles Halford as Cliff Krantz, Ed You as Idris Bowman, Matt Curtin as Arnie Heim, and Sarah Phillips as Madge, with Tim…

🎧 QUESTA Act 3 | by Victor Bumbalo Chelsea, 1991. The truth catches up. Father James comes looking for answers. Paul finally gives him one. He killed Will. But the priest tells him not to confess to Lori and not to go to the police. Let her keep believing her son was loved. Paul says goodbye to the woman whose life he destroyed without ever telling her why. Then Daniel steps out of the shadows. The witness who saw everything that night tells Paul he lied to the police on purpose. He gave them the wrong face. He protected him. And now he tells Paul the one thing Paul never expected to hear from anyone again. He loves him. With nowhere left to hide and nothing left to go back to, Paul decides to leave New York for a tiny town in New Mexico where his family was happy once. Questa. QUESTA is a devastating, lyrical, morally serious story about grief, faith, and forgiveness. Monster's Ball meets Manchester by the Sea. Featuring John Milhiser (Saturday Night Live), Oscar nominee Bruce Davison (Longtime Companion,…

Chelsea, 1991. Weeks after the alley. The killer follows the mother across the river, sits across from her at a coffee shop, and cries while she comforts him. She has no idea who he is.

A grieving widower kills a stranger in an alley behind a gay bar. He runs. Then he can't stop following the dead boy's mother into her life. Grief. Catholic guilt. A priest who knows. A homeless witness who decides to love the killer. It's Monster's Ball meets Manchester by the Sea, set in AIDS-era New York where forgiveness, grace, and survival collide. Devastating, lyrical, and morally serious.

SUBURBAKNIGHT: Act Three Walter Knope has spent most of his life avoiding confrontation. That is about to become difficult. Walter, Samantha and Bobby Joe cross the street armed with a sword, a crossbow, a mace, a revolver and one deeply impractical suit of medieval armor. Richard is waiting. So is the rest of the neighborhood. Inside Richard's house they discover the party has evolved into something considerably less HOA-approved. Music. Neon. Blood. An orgy full of succubi. Richard sitting above it all like Satan's sexiest homeowners association president. Samantha asks where her daughter is. Then shoots Richard through the eye with a crossbow. It barely slows him down. Written by Nick Bannister, SUBURBAKNIGHT reaches its gloriously unhinged conclusion as Walter's fight to save his family becomes a full-scale supernatural war over everything he thought he had already lost. Richard separates them. Walter gets beaten nearly unconscious. Samantha is pulled into a seductive nightmare built from everything she…

SUBURBAKNIGHT: Act Two Walter Knope has finally discovered the one thing worse than suspecting your new neighbor is a sex demon. Being right. Inside Richard's immaculate house, Walter gets the confirmation he was looking for. The Maitlands are dead. Richard isn't human. And he isn't just interested in Samantha. He wants everything Walter has. Walter tries to warn Sam. It goes badly. What starts as an argument about Richard quickly becomes an argument about money, sex, failure, jealousy and every other thing a married couple has been politely not saying out loud. Sam packs a bag. Walter, terrified Richard will get to her, practically helps her leave. Written by Nick Bannister, SUBURBAKNIGHT is a wicked suburban horror-comedy about marriage, masculinity and what happens when your midlife crisis actually grows horns. Walter needs someone who understands monsters. Enter Bobby Joe Williams. Local horror host. Full-time drunk. Part-time monster expert. Possibly the least reassuring person you could want standing…

SUBURBAKNIGHT: Act One Walter Knope is having a bad week. His antique store is bankrupt. The bank has locked him out. His house is now filled with everything he couldn't sell. His teenage daughter thinks he's embarrassing, his marriage has seen better days, and Walter is beginning to suspect middle age may just be a long series of humiliations ending in death. Then Richard Sarandon moves in across the street. Richard is rich, handsome, charming and spectacularly confident. The neighborhood women can't stop looking at him. The husbands barely notice. Walter notices everything. Especially the two body bags carried out of Richard's house in the middle of the night. Then Walter sees Richard do something no human being should be able to do. Written by Nick Bannister, SUBURBAKNIGHT is a wicked suburban horror-comedy about marriage, jealousy, masculinity and the nightmare of discovering that the impossibly perfect man next door may actually be a monster. Walter calls the police. They find nothing. Richard smiles.…

Rooms of Experience, Act 3 By Steffany Sommers Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis The trial begins. Detective Curtis takes the stand. Gina tells the jury about the woman who spent sixty-five years caring for her son. Alexis puts Ada on the stand. Ada does not ask for forgiveness. She asks them to understand. Dana answers with the law. Alexis answers with lived experience. An expert insists Teddy could have adapted to a new home. Ada insists they never knew her son. Then the case goes to the jury. But Dana’s real judgment comes somewhere else. The blue envelopes. The hospital. The daughter she left behind. Dana finally tells Ada the truth. Her baby was born with Down syndrome. Dana walked out of the hospital. She never went back. And she prosecuted Ada because she needed to believe that leaving her own child had been the right choice. Ada does not condemn her. She reminds Dana that not every choice is permanent. Then she asks the question Dana has avoided for seven years.…

Rooms of Experience, Act 2 By Steffany Sommers Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis Dana tries to outrun the case. Literally. But Ada Wells keeps following her home. At Teddy’s funeral, Ada collapses. Alexis asks for mercy. Dana refuses. Harvey warns her not to go soft. The medical examiner confirms it was homicide. Then reveals Ada could have hidden it. No visible trauma. No obvious cause of death. No reason to test for helium. But Ada left everything in plain sight. Detective Curtis admits she never tried to escape responsibility. Gina cares for Ada as her health begins to fail. Ethan offers Dana a life built on trust. And the blue envelopes hidden inside her desk keep demanding the truth. Then, at Rebecca’s birthday party, Dana is handed a baby. A little girl named Molly reaches for her. A child with Down syndrome. Molly touches Dana’s face. And something buried begins to surface. The prosecutor who insists there is always a choice can no longer avoid the choice she…

Rooms of Experience, Act 1 By Steffany Sommers Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis The call comes in at night. An elderly woman. A dead son. A tank of helium left in plain sight. Ada Wells doesn’t deny it. She wanted his last day to be peaceful. Enter Dana Jeffries, razor-sharp, undefeated, and hungry to prove herself. Her boss, Harvey Davis, assigns the case for one reason: optics. Defense attorney Alexis Martinez pushes back hard. Detective Curtis starts questioning his own conclusions. Gina Gordon protects Ada like family. Carter becomes another pressure point inside the machine. Rebecca is caught in the ripple effect. Then Alexis shows Dana the home movies. The real story. The years no one saw. The cost no one counted. By the end of Act One, Dana walks out of Ada’s house shaken. No longer sure the law and justice are the same thing. Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis Craig…

RECALL: Act Three By the time RECALL reaches Act Three, Miami Military Academy is no longer pretending it can survive. The school is still marching, still saluting, still shining brass and barking orders into the Florida heat, but the center is gone. Colonel Barnes is dying. Commander Patterson knows it. Sally knows it. And the boys, even when they are laughing too hard to say it out loud, can feel the whole place slipping into history. Written by Academy Award nominee Bruce Davison, and once optioned and held by the great Carroll O’Connor with eyes on a Pacino lead,, RECALL is a funny, savage, deeply human coming-of-age drama about abandoned boys, broken fathers, old soldiers, Cuban exiles, secret weapons, and the terrible bargain countries make when they ask the young to carry the sins of the old. Act Three begins with the last quiet hours before everything breaks. Lishinsky and Sally steal a small piece of freedom on the water, drifting toward Captain Kidd’s Island, talking about California, escape,…

RECALL: Act Two In February 1961, the boys of Miami Military Academy are still marching, joking, fighting, shaving, bleeding, stealing, and pretending the world outside the gates is someone else’s problem. But the world is already inside the school. It is in the news from Cuba. It is in the old munitions bunkers by the bay. It is in the secrets the adults keep, the wounds they drink through, and the wars they keep handing down to children. Written by Academy Award nominee Bruce Davison, and once optioned and held by the great Carroll O’Connor with eyes on a Pacino lead,, RECALL is a funny, savage, deeply human coming-of-age drama about abandoned boys, broken fathers, old soldiers, Cuban exiles, secret weapons, and the machinery that turns fear into patriotism. Act Two begins as Stephen Lishinsky tries to survive the strange education of “A” Company. His head has been butchered. His pride has been beaten. His idea of honor has already taken a few direct hits. When he tries to run, Commander Patterson finds…

RECALL: Act One In February 1961, while America watches Cuba on television and tells itself the next war will belong to someone else, a dying military academy in Miami is still teaching boys how to stand straight, take orders, and become men. Written by Academy Award nominee Bruce Davison, once optioned and held by the great Carroll O’Connor with eyes on a Pacino lead, RECALL is a funny, savage, deeply human coming-of-age drama about abandoned boys, broken fathers, old soldiers, Cuban exiles, secret weapons, and the first terrible lesson of history: nations do not only go to war with armies. Sometimes they go to war with children who still think they are playing. Act One begins with Stephen Lishinsky arriving at Miami Military Academy, a bright Pennsylvania kid who volunteered for the brochure version of honor and discipline. What he finds is a parade field, a dying commandant, a school already being swallowed by the future, and two cadets handcuffed to a howitzer before morning formation. Inside “A”…

RECALL trailer A dying military academy. A country drifting toward war. A group of boys told to stand straight, swallow fear, and call it honor. Set in 1961 Miami, RECALL follows Stephen Lishinsky, a bright-eyed new cadet who volunteers for military school and walks into something far more dangerous than discipline. Inside Miami Military Academy, abandoned boys become soldiers before they understand what war costs. A Brooklyn hustler steals weapons for Cuban exiles. A Cuban refugee carries the murder of his father and the dream of taking his country back. A decorated Navy hero drinks through old wounds while trying to protect boys the world has already thrown away. Then Cuba moves closer. The Bay of Pigs moves closer. The rifles are not pretend anymore. Written by Academy Award nominee Bruce Davison, and once optioned and held by the great Carroll O’Connor with eyes on a Pacino lead, RECALL is funny, brutal, beautiful, and dangerous. A coming-of-age story about loyalty, sacrifice, broken institutions, and…

The deeper we go, the stranger it gets. GATEWAY: Three & Four is now live. A missing scientist. A military experiment losing control. A government program based on real declassified files that suggests the human mind may not simply imagine other places, other times, or other dimensions. It may be able to reach them. At a moment when UAP disclosures, intelligence programs, government secrecy, and the unknown are no longer living at the edge of the conversation, GATEWAY feels less like science fiction and more like a classified question we were never supposed to ask out loud. Inspired by the real declassified Gateway Process, Three & Four push Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell beyond investigation and into something far more dangerous. Itzhak Bentov is pulled into the Monroe Institute to help McDonnell move deeper through the Gateway. General Addis wants control. Nurse Fields may know more than she is saying. McDonnell’s mother reaches across a line she should not be able to cross. And somewhere between the physical…

Gateway: One & Two A classified cockpit recording. A military tragedy wrapped in silence. A secret government experiment that suggests human consciousness may not be confined to the body, the brain, or even time itself. When Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell is pulled into an investigation involving Army Intelligence, the CIA, and the mysterious Monroe Institute, he expects a case. What he finds is a threshold. Inspired by the real declassified Gateway Process, Acts One and Two launch McDonnell into a world where science, espionage, altered consciousness, Hemi-Sync, remote viewing, and time begin to collapse into one terrifying possibility: The mind may not simply observe reality. It may be able to enter it. As the experiment deepens, McDonnell encounters failed subjects, hidden rooms, impossible memories, and visions of the past too vivid to dismiss. What begins as an investigation becomes a journey into the most dangerous frontier ever explored: the human mind. Because the past may not be gone. The future may not…

THE G.Y.M. — PILOT, ACTS TWO AND THREE By Dani Hanks Pick up where Act One left off. Valerie still cannot get her commercial. The film crew is still in her face. The Solstice gym across the street is still winning. And things are about to get considerably worse. Bryan is teaching group fitness despite not knowing what "happy baby" is, and every senior in the building keeps asking when Reggie is coming back. Kayla is supposed to be training her client. Her client is currently turning purple under a barbell. The cameraman looks weirdly familiar to her and she cannot place it. Chris is somewhere in the locker room going through a smoothie situation he did not ask for. Wade the IT guy is crawling through a server closet stuffed with the unpaid invoices Valerie has been hiding in her clipboard. And Valerie, our hero, has just told the cute IT guy that her anaconda doesn't want his real estate funds. It's fine. Everything is fine. By the time we get to the pool, Alexa is jumping off a diving board she has no…

THE G.Y.M. — PILOT, ACT ONE By Dani Hanks Welcome to the run-down fitness shithole at the end of the strip mall. Two buildings left standing, a tech repair shop and The G.Y.M., and across the street a brand new chrome-and-barbell luxury chain called Solstice is having its grand opening on the same day Valerie is trying to film her grand re-opening commercial. Valerie inherited her childhood sanctuary the hard way. The previous owner got hauled off in handcuffs as "The Flamingo King," the FBI took the penguins, and she sank her life savings into keeping the bulldozers off the lot. Now the bike handlebars are snapping mid-shoot, the wifi is down, the POS is down, the smoothie blender is wifi-controlled (a mistake), and a real estate vulture in pinstripes will not stop circling the parking lot. Her ragtag crew, an Insta-thirsty trainer, a Finnish golden retriever on a visa, a chaos-gremlin receptionist who cannot swim, a buttoned-up IT guy from next door, a smoothie-bar veteran who misses the cocaine era, and a…

PV & FRANNY A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is. A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one. One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous. ACT TWO If Act One is about starting a band, Act Two is about what happens when everything immediately gets in the way. Franny does what any rational person would do. He writes a love song. Which would be fine… except for the rule. No romance. Ever. And PV means it. What follows is a series of perfectly logical decisions that somehow make everything worse. A love song that says too much. A date that shouldn’t exist. A plan to fix things that only complicates them further. Because if PV won’t date a bandmate, there’s only one solution: Make the competition part of the band. Which works. Until it doesn’t. As alliances shift, rules get…

PV & FRANNY A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is. A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one. One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous. ACT ONE Overton High is chaos in a controlled environment. The mascot smokes. The journalist thinks she’s breaking Watergate. The nicest bully in school politely refuses lunch money. And then there’s PV. Brilliant. Intense. Completely uncompromising. She doesn’t want to start a band. She wants to build something real. Franny Blevins just wants to be part of it. What begins as an awkward coffee shop encounter quickly turns into a partnership built on music, rules, and one very firm boundary: No romance. Ever. Which becomes a problem almost immediately. As Franny gets pulled deeper into PV’s world, her music, her logic, her investigations,…

A mother is murdered. A tape destroys everything. And a driver who kept his mouth shut for twelve years finally decides to speak — with blood. ACT THREE The blackmail worked. That’s the problem. Because once the truth is out, there’s nothing left to negotiate. Only what it costs. Sal is done driving. He’s done surviving. And for the first time since he walked out of prison, he’s not trying to stay clean... he’s trying to settle accounts. Hara finally reveals what Lotta really built, not a hustle, not a side game, but a system designed to take down men who thought they were untouchable. Vincent moves to contain it. Charlie gets caught in the fallout. And Carmela... the only innocent in a guilty world, pays for all of it. That’s the moment the story breaks. Not when the tape surfaces. When the family does. Act Three is not about power. It’s about what power does when it slips. Doors close. Phones stop ringing. Old friends don’t answer. And the men who used to run everything start hiding from one man who has…

A limo driver. A blackmail tape in motion. A senator with everything to protect. What started as leverage is about to turn into control, betrayal, and survival. ACT TWO The ride is over. The damage is not. What was leverage becomes exposure. And everyone wants a piece of it. Sal thought he could drive away from it. He was wrong. The tape moves. Hands change. Intentions shift. And the people behind it start stepping into the light. Vincent steps in. Old world. Old rules. A man who understands that power isn’t what you have… it’s what you can take back. Charlie circles. Smiling just enough to make you wonder how far this goes. And Baxter? He doesn’t panic. He recalculates. Because men like him don’t lose… they rewrite the outcome. Hara sees it too. The angles. The leverage. The opening. And she’s not asking permission. The city fades in the rearview. The road stretches out. What’s left is distance… and decisions. Who controls the tape? Who controls the story? And who walks away from it? Because now it’s not…

MY LADY'S SONG A limo driver. Two porn stars. A senator with everything to lose. One night in New York that turns into leverage, betrayal, and war. ACT ONE New York. Late-night Eighth Avenue. Strip clubs, neon, and power moving quietly behind tinted glass. Sal “The Barber” Marino is a former soldier of the streets, a man who did twelve years without talking and now makes a living driving high-end clients through a city he no longer trusts. One call pulls him back in. A simple job. Easy money. Drive the girls. Pick up the client. Keep your mouth shut. But the client is a powerful senator. The ride is being recorded. And the job isn’t what it seems. What starts as routine turns into leverage. a blackmail setup that reaches into politics, unions, and the last remnants of old-school control. As the night bleeds into morning and the city gives way to the open road, Sal is locked in with Hara; young, sharp, and unpredictable. Two worlds collide. Old code versus new survival. And then it breaks. A confrontation. A…

🎧 THE G.Y.M. Welcome to THE G.Y.M. Not a gym. A situation. Valerie inherited a neighborhood gym from her mother. What she actually inherited? Debt, broken equipment, a failing business… and a staff that turns every small problem into a full-blown emergency. Across the street, a sleek corporate fitness empire is opening with glass walls, perfect lighting, and zero chaos. Inside The G.Y.M.? Flooded hot tubs. Out-of-order bikes. A spin class that may or may not be a lawsuit waiting to happen. And a “Grand Re-Opening” that could either save the place… or finally finish it. This is a workplace comedy where nothing works, nobody communicates, and every attempt to fix things somehow makes them worse. Think Parks and Recreation meets It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, set inside a failing gym where the stakes are low… until suddenly they’re not. Recorded live at SXSW /. Podcast Movement, this Austin Film Festival award-winning script by Dani Hanks delivers fast, character-driven comedy with just enough heart to make…

TABLE READ: My Lady’s Song Written by Dan Lauria New York. Late-night Eighth Avenue. Strip clubs, limos, politicians, porn stars, and ghosts of the old neighborhood. My Lady’s Song drops you straight into the smoky, blood-soaked underbelly of a city that doesn’t forgive and never forgets. Sal “The Barber” Marino is an aging ex-soldier of the streets — a limo driver who once did twelve years without talking. Now he drives high-end clients and keeps his head down. But when a powerful senator, a pair of porn stars, and a blackmail tape collide during sensitive union negotiations, Sal is pulled back into a world he thought he left behind. This is not a nostalgia piece. This is loyalty versus survival. Old code versus new money. Family versus leverage. Set against a soundtrack style of Billie Holiday, Etta James, Dinah Washington, and Bessie Smith, My Lady’s Song moves like Goodfellas at midnight and feels like The Sopranos when the jokes stop being funny. What starts as a simple drive to Los Angeles turns into a…

The cage breaks open. Caravaggio breaks with it. Chained in a torture chamber beneath the fortress, Caravaggio faces the Grand Master one last time. Faith against flesh. Obedience against desire. What follows is an escape down a fortress wall, a boat in the dark, and a fugitive painter running not toward freedom but toward the only thing he has left. Act Three is the fall. Brutal. Beautiful. Inevitable. Sicily. Caravaggio paints like a man on fire. In Syracuse, a burial. In Messina, a nativity. Each canvas more desperate than the last. Each one a confession he cannot say out loud. The genius is still there. The man holding the brush is disappearing. Back in Rome, the news arrives. Lena. The woman whose face launched his greatest work. Gone. Caravaggio learns what it costs to leave someone behind in a city that devours the unprotected. Cardinal Del Monte makes his final play. A pardon. A real one. Signed by the Pope himself. But the pardon needs a delivery and Caravaggio needs to stay alive long enough to…

Malta. A fortress carved from rock, surrounded by sea, ruled by warrior monks who pray at dawn and kill by noon. Caravaggio arrives to paint a portrait. He stays because he has no choice. The Grand Master offers sanctuary, admiration, and something neither man is prepared to name. The Captain at Arms offers suspicion, jealousy, and a locked door every night. Act Two is the cage. Beautiful. Suffocating. Holy. Caravaggio paints the Grand Master's portrait and captures more than armor and scars. He captures a man's loneliness. The Knights throw a feast in his honor. He dances on tables. He is knighted with a gold sword. He is watched from every window. Back in Rome, Cardinal Del Monte fights for a papal pardon while the Tomassoni brothers hire bounty hunters. The Pope dies. A new Pope rises. The Church still cannot decide what Caravaggio is worth. On the beach, the Turks attack. Knights are nailed to crosses and set on fire, floated into the harbor at dawn. Caravaggio picks up a sword for the first time. He…

Caravaggio, the brilliant outlaw painter whose genius made him famous and whose violence made him a fugitive. Rome, 1610. The city is loud, corrupt, holy, and dangerous. Caravaggio thrives in it. Act One drops you straight into the night everything breaks. Inside a dark Roman chapel, Caravaggio confronts his greatest rival and exposes a truth the Church is not ready to control. God does not live in perfection. God lives in flesh, shadow, and brutal light. Outside the church, Rome answers back. Wine turns into provocation. Desire turns into rivalry. Old grudges sharpen. A debt comes due. What begins as swagger spirals into violence, and by dawn Caravaggio’s life in Rome is over. Wanted. Hunted. Unforgivable. A carriage slips through the gates. A boat cuts across black water. Behind him, the city that crowned him now wants him dead. Ahead lies Malta, a fortified island ruled by warrior monks, where faith is enforced with steel and survival demands obedience. Act One is ignition. Art as rebellion. Faith as…

Rome. 1610. A painter who sees God in the faces of prostitutes and killers is on the run for murder. His name is Caravaggio. He drinks too much. He loves recklessly. Men, women, it doesn't matter. He picks fights with swordsmen and screams at the heavens in candlelit chapels. He paints the way other men pray, except his prayers are in defiance. And the Catholic Church can't decide whether to pardon him or let the bounty hunters finish the job. This screenplay by Richard Vetere, a Pulitzer nominee and Golden Palm winner whose work has been produced by Francis Ford Coppola, follows Caravaggio from the brothels of Rome to a besieged fortress on Malta where a scarred Grand Master offers him sanctuary and something that looks a lot like love. But sanctuary has a price. And Caravaggio has never paid what he owes without bleeding for it. There are popes making deals in candlelight. Brothers hunting him across the Mediterranean for killing their own. A muse he left behind in Rome who can't wait much longer. A rival…

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Rooms of Experience, Act 3 By Steffany Sommers Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis Everything converges. The courtroom becomes the center of gravity. Every choice Dana made now has a witness. Alexis puts Ada on the stand. And for the first time, the story is told without protection. No strategy. No framing. Just truth. Ada speaks about the years. The fear. The promises she made when no one else would. About loving someone the world was never built for. The room changes. Disability rights advocates clash with prosecutors. Expert testimony collides with lived experience. The line between justice and cruelty grows thinner by the minute. Harvey pushes for a conviction. The system demands closure. The media waits for a headline. Dana is forced to decide who she is when the rules stop helping. Not as a prosecutor. As a human being. The verdict comes down. And nothing about it feels simple. In the end, there is no victory. Only consequence. Only reckoning. Act Three asks the…

Rooms of Experience, Act 2 By Steffany Sommers Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis The cracks start to spread. Dana tries to outrun the case. Literally. But every answer leads to worse questions. She digs into Teddy’s past. Talks to doctors. Families. People who trusted institutions and paid for it. What she finds isn’t comforting. Facilities where the vulnerable disappear. Bruises explained away. Medication used as control. Silence treated like consent. Ada’s fear wasn’t paranoia. It was experience. Meanwhile, the pressure builds. Disability rights groups mobilize. The media sharpens its narrative. And DA Harvey Davis makes it clear. This case is about optics, not nuance. “No deal,” he reminds her. Win at all costs. Alexis keeps pushing for mercy. Gina watches Ada waste away. Funeral grief turns into physical collapse. The woman who survived everything may not survive this. Dana stands in the middle. Her career on one side. Her conscience on the other. She starts to see…

Rooms of Experience, Act 1 By Steffany Sommers Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis The call comes in at night. An elderly woman. A dead son. A tank of helium left in plain sight. Ada Wells doesn’t deny it. She wanted his last day to be peaceful. Enter Dana Jeffries, razor-sharp, undefeated, and hungry to prove herself. Her boss, Harvey Davis, assigns the case for one reason: optics. Defense attorney Alexis Martinez pushes back hard. Detective Curtis starts questioning his own conclusions. Gina Gordon protects Ada like family. Carter becomes another pressure point inside the machine. Rebecca is caught in the ripple effect. Then Alexis shows Dana the home movies. The real story. The years no one saw. The cost no one counted. By the end of Act One, Dana walks out of Ada’s house shaken. No longer sure the law and justice are the same thing. Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis Craig…

Rooms of Experience By Steffany Sommers What if the most unforgivable crime came from the purest love? Ada Wells is eighty-nine. Her son, Teddy, is autistic. She has spent sixty years protecting him from a world that never learned how to love him back. Then one night, she makes a choice that shatters everything. Now the system wants a conviction. The media wants a monster. And rising prosecutor Dana Jeffries is handed the most politically explosive case of her career. Defense attorney Alexis Martinez knows this isn’t about murder. It’s about a mother who outlived her child. About institutions that failed. About love pushed past the breaking point. Rooms of Experience is a devastating courtroom drama about motherhood, morality, and the brutal cost of survival. This isn’t about guilt. It’s about understanding. __________________________ Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as…

The clock runs out. The curtain comes up. With opening night looming, the magic begins to fail. Bodies ache. Secrets surface. And the line between who Natalie and Ava were… and who they’ve become… finally disappears. Natalie must confront what she’s been chasing her entire life — and what it cost her to get there. Ava must decide whether stepping into the spotlight is worth stepping away from who she is. The Sugar Plum Fairy is no longer just a role. It’s a reckoning. As rivalries peak and loyalties collide, the question is no longer who deserves the part — but who’s willing to let it go. And whether the universe will allow either girl to walk away unchanged. Act Three is where the story lands. Where ambition meets consequence. Where magic demands payment. Because sometimes you get exactly what you wished for. And sometimes the bravest thing you can do… is give it back. It’s still funny. It’s still sharp. But now it’s honest. Written by award-winning writer Jenna St. John. Starring: Kensington Tallman as…

The wish came true. Now the consequences begin. Natalie Primavera is trapped in a hospital bed, her body broken, her future uncertain — while her mind is stuck inside Ava Ross, a dancer who was never supposed to be good enough for the spotlight. Ava, meanwhile, is living inside Natalie’s perfect body… and discovering that perfection is a prison with great lighting. As Nutcracker rehearsals intensify, the magic destabilizes. Roles are threatened. Loyalties fracture. The Sugar Plum Fairy becomes a battleground. And the line between ambition and identity starts to blur. Friendships turn sharp. Parents get complicated. Romance gets messy. And a Romanian ballet master with secrets of his own begins pushing both girls toward a reckoning neither of them is ready for. Act Two is where the comedy deepens, the stakes rise, and the story stops being about switching bodies — and starts being about who deserves the life they’re fighting for. Because wanting something badly doesn’t mean you understand the cost. It’s still…

What happens when you wish you were someone else… and the universe says bet? Natalie Primavera has a million followers, perfect technique, and the lead role in every show. Ava Ross has a cracked phone, a boyfriend who sings like naked Miley Cyrus, and a work-study job sweeping up after other dancers. One ancient snow globe. Two desperate wishes. And suddenly they wake up in each other’s bodies. There’s just one problem: Natalie’s body is now in a hospital bed with a shattered hip. And Ava’s body? It’s about to dance the Sugar Plum Fairy… with ankles like wet spaghetti. What follows is the funniest, most chaotic Nutcracker rehearsal season in history... zombie cats, possessed dolls, a Romanian ballet master who might actually be a warlock, his terrifying nine-year-old son, and a love triangle nobody ordered. But underneath the chaos is something real: two girls discovering that the lives they envied aren’t what they seemed. It’s Freaky Friday meets Center Stage, and it hits. THE UNDERSTUDY: ACT ONE Written by…

THE UNDERSTUDY What happens when you wish you were someone else... and the universe says bet? Natalie Primavera has a million Instagram followers, perfect technique, and the lead role in every show. Ava Ross has a cracked phone, a nerdy boyfriend who dresses as naked Miley Cyrus, and a work-study job sweeping the dance studio. One ancient snow globe. Two desperate wishes. And suddenly they wake up in each other's bodies. There's just one problem: Natalie's body is now in a hospital bed with a shattered hip. And Ava's body? It's about to dance the Sugar Plum Fairy... with ankles like wet spaghetti. What follows is the funniest, most chaotic Nutcracker rehearsal season in history. We're talking zombie cats, possessed dolls, a Romanian ballet master with a terrifying nine-year-old son, and a love triangle nobody asked for. But underneath the chaos is something real: two girls discovering that the lives they envied aren't what they seemed, and that maybe the grass isn't greener, it's just... different grass. The…

The countdown to eleven builds like a pressure valve. Dizzy waits in the driveway holding on to hope. Kev hides nerves behind jokes. P keeps tugging at a shirt that has never felt right on his body. Everyone is pretending this morning will fix something they are too scared to name. A car turns the corner and it is the wrong one. Dizzy breaks. Kev fires the blame at P. The friendship between them starts to shake. P disappears inside and comes back with a Sprite because it is the only comfort he knows how to offer at fourteen. Then the sound hits. Guitar blasting out of an engine that should not exist in a town this small. The DeLorean pulls in for real. Dizzy lifts his head. Kev goes silent. P feels the world shift. Miss World steps out with a sunflower in her hair and for a moment everything feels possible. She takes them on the ride they have been imagining all week. Kev laughs in the back. Dizzy shouts for more speed. P sits in the front seat trying to hold himself together. Miss World asks what they want…

The morning after Homecoming week hits different. P wakes up at Dizzy’s house pretending everything is fine, even though nothing is fine. The letter from St. John’s is in his pocket like a weight. The DeLorean didn’t show. The note he wrote is still in his head. Outside, Kev and Dizzy shoot hoops like the world is normal. P pretends right along with them. The kind of pretending every kid knows too well. Then real life barges in, and the moment they were waiting for disappears before it even starts. At the video store, things get even tighter. Bex is behind the counter. Kev is cracking jokes that cut deeper than he realizes. P is trying to disappear inside a ruined shirt and a smile that doesn’t fit anymore. He escapes to the back room, plays a fighting game, and chooses the one character who feels closest to the person he can’t say out loud. For a second, he can breathe. Then everything and everyone he’s avoiding walks right in. Act Two is where the mask slips. Where jokes stop being jokes. Where P realizes…

It's Homecoming Weekend in North Texas, 1994. Fourteen-year-old P is barely holding it together, shaving a single whisker in the bathroom mirror, writing a note he almost can't take back, and dialing his best friend Kev before a Zippo flame turns fear into momentum. At school, P's movie-trivia fluency sabotages Kev in a "battle of the sexes" quiz, earning heat from Kev and former best friend Bex. After class, the band - P, Kev, and Dizzy - argues Pantera vs. Korn, then mainlines '90s VHS nostalgia with Ace Ventura and The Crow. Then the impossible slides by in stainless steel: a DeLorean. Its driver, "Miss World," knows her metal, quotes regrets, and won't take three teens on a joyride yet. She'll be back tomorrow at 11 A.M. Under Friday-night lights, P pulls down a highlight-reel TD in a scrappy eighth-grade pickup game while Dizzy's hustling block saves the play. Back in the stands, P's parents pitch football and fitting in. P keeps tugging his shirt straight and his purple beanie low, but the question…

SMALL BLOCK — Trailer A 14-year-old kid, a DeLorean, and a 90s world that doesn’t have the words for who he is yet. Small Block isn’t nostalgia, it’s a gut-check of youth, identity, and music that could save your life or end it. Performed live by an award-winning cast and mixed like a feature film for your ears. From the Award-winning team at TABLE READ, this is cinema you can hear. 🎧 Listen now — new episodes drop every Tuesday CAST P – Levi Dafferner Kev – Kosi Eguchi Bex – Piper Kingston Dizzy – Deryck Hak Miss World – Lydia Tinsley Dad – Adam Pilver Mrs. D – Gemma Kyle Mom – Leah Zhang Britt – Eric Miller Tiff / Martha – Avery Norris Mr. Welch / Kev’s Dad – Eddie Aguirre Dan / Zach – Aidan Dick Jack – Kellen Rose James – Michael Amir Nash Rob – Jack Murphy Janet / Video Store Clerk – Sabrina Ariss Narrator – Paula Tiso Written by Ashley Lauren 🎙️ Produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma for TABLE READ / Manifest Media See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The TV clicks on. Everything else clicks off. The screen glows like the last church in hell. A newscaster reads order into chaos while the world decomposes behind him. Ben watches like a man staring at his own grave. Barbara, in Olivia Graham’s haunting performance, doesn’t watch at all. She’s already gone. Then the floor creaks. Harry Cooper climbs out of the basement like ego in human form. Jim Connor gives him every ounce of misplaced authority. Behind him, Helen (Wendy Shapero) and their daughter—pale, bitten, doomed. Romero stops making a zombie movie and starts the autopsy. The dead don’t kill the living. The living do that themselves. Ben wants the boards. Harry wants the basement. Tom (Charlie Bodin) just wants peace. Every word is gasoline. Every silence is a match. When dawn comes, it’s not rescue. It’s rifles. One shot. One mistake. One truth. Romero didn’t make horror. He made history. Turn off the lights. Lock the doors. Remember who the real monsters were. CAST Narrator: Jack Daniel Ben: Zeke…

Barbara made it to the house. Barely. Ben's about to turn it into a war zone. Ben spins suddenly inside the kitchen door and the movie stops being polite. This is where Romero strips the fantasy out of survival and leaves you with splinters, sweat, and the sound of a man trying to think faster than death moves. Zeke Alton plays Ben like a man who's already lost but refuses to lie down. He hammers, he plans, he moves. Barbara, still shattered in Olivia Graham's haunting performance, watches him build their coffin and calls it hope. The boards go up. The windows disappear. The house becomes a box. Then Ben does the unthinkable - he lights the dead on fire. A corpse burns in the yard like a funeral no one asked for. The flames push back the night, and for thirty seconds, it feels like winning. But fire doesn't last, and the dead don't quit. They just wait. The radio crackles to life: "Stay inside. Stay calm." Ben laughs without sound. Calm died an hour ago. Romero doesn't give you relief. He gives you wood,…

They say legends never die. Turns out, neither do their zombies. In this special Table Read Podcast event, featuring a foreword by New York Times bestselling horror author Scott Sigler, we crack open the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead script, the one George A. Romero actually wrote before the edits, the rewrites, the budget, and the chaos. This is Romero raw and unfiltered. Every word, every stage direction, every creeping dread exactly as it hit the page before it hit the lens. You think you’ve seen Night of the Living Dead? You haven’t. You’ve seen the movie. This is the mind behind the movie. The blueprint that split horror wide open and rewired the genre forever. ACT ONE: “They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara” It starts quiet. Too quiet. A car grinds up a lonely Pennsylvania hill into a cemetery where the dead are supposed to stay dead. Barbara and her brother Johnny, bickering, restless, too human for their own good, walk straight into the kind of dusk where nothing bad has happened yet. Romero…

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT A Table Read Podcast Event Before Duane Jones rewrote cinema history. Before the farmhouse became ground zero for modern horror. Before "They're coming to get you, Barbara" entered the cultural lexicon forever. There was the script George Romero actually wrote. And holy shit, it's nothing like what you think you know. Picture this: Ben wasn't Ben - he was "Truckdriver." Barbara wasn't traumatized - she was practically catatonic from page one. The basement wasn't a refuge - it was barely mentioned. And that ending that scarred you for life? Completely different. This isn't just some lost draft gathering dust. This is the DNA of every zombie story that followed, in its purest, most unfiltered form. Jack Daniel narrates this apocalyptic archaeological dig - the SAG-AFTRA powerhouse behind trailers for The Suicide Squad, Ford v Ferrari, and Jackass Forever. With our killer cast: Zeke Alton as Ben (former Navy Test Pilot, "Eyes of Wakanda") Olivia Graham as Barbara…

Henrietta has stopped speaking. At St. Rosalia Indian School in 1905, silence is the only weapon left to her. The nuns mistake it for surrender. They don’t see how compassion slips between the cracks: a blanket to a shivering girl, a crust of bread for a starving boy, a circle of children daring to call magic into being with their hands. When a glowing light answers Henrietta’s defiance, the children learn to believe again—though belief always comes with a cost. Back in Oak Bluffs, Maya sees the same light. And now she wants answers. Who were Henrietta’s people? What words set her free? With Lupe’s help—and a genealogist who knows the Wampanoag roots of this island—Maya begins a search her father would never understand. Robert, meanwhile, is losing clients, losing patience, and perhaps, losing his grip. He finds Lupe at grief counseling, and their past lives brush against the present in ways neither expected. At Moonstone Rescue, a golden retriever’s broken leg tests the line between sanctuary and science.…

Moonstone Rescue (Pilot) Maya Rhodes hasn’t spoken to her dead mother in two years. Not since the cancer. Not since her veterinarian father started putting down healthy animals and drinking alone at 2 p.m. Not since their black cat, Henrietta, began leading her to a farm everyone swears is cursed. In Oak Bluffs, where rich men own everything and old women remember longer, lives Lupe McGregor. Part Wampanoag, part nobody’s business. The town calls her widow, witch, killer. Maya calls her the only adult who sees animals the way she does: as messengers carrying old grief and older medicine. This is a ghost story where the living do more damage than the dead. Where 14-year-old girls inherit their great-great-grandmother’s boarding school traumas through dreams. Where love means teaching someone which plants heal... and which ones help you forget. Where a rose-breasted grosbeak at a cemetery means your mother heard you graduate, even if your father says birds are just birds, and dead means dead. Written by…

Moonstone Rescue mixes the sweep of family history with the wild side of magic realism. Moonstone unpacks the tangled lives of a small-town family... think intergenerational secrets, a talking cat with attitude, and ghosts that are way more than memories. It’s part coming-of-age, part supernatural mystery, all wrapped in a voice that’s equal parts poetic and unfiltered. The story hits that sweet spot where grief collides with hope, and where love... sometimes messy, sometimes fierce... pulls everyone through. Funny, brave, and a little bit haunted, Moonstone Rescue is for anyone who believes family legends are true, ancestors have unfinished business, and magic is hiding right under your nose. Written by: Dominique Mouton Cast: NARRATOR Vanessa Richardson MAYA RHODES Madison Griggs ROBERT RHODES Zeke Alton NORAH RHODES/WOMAN. Sarah Elmaleh JEAN RHODES Angel Harper LUPE MCGREGOR Rainbow Dickerson AXEL GRAYSON Ivar Brogger JACKIE ANDREWS Amanda Christine HUGO FUENTES David Reeves Tordilla MAVERICK GRAYSON…