Celebrate the May 2024 Stage 32 Community’s Successes!

Hello, Stage 32 Community!

We love celebrating our amazing members and all that you have worked hard for and achieved, and we know you do too! We wanted to shine a light on all of the successes you've garnered and make sure they are getting their proper due. So sit back and read on to learn all about signings, deals, meetings, script requests, and all of the fun happenings from the month of May...

Success Stories

Congrats to Stage 32 Community Members Jessica Calvello, Stephanie Harrison, and Stephanie Moore, who are in development on, and prepping a concept trailer for, a series based on Jessica’s life! Jessica met producer Harrison and line producer Moore at a Stage 32 meet up in Austin last month, and they immediately hit it off both personally and creatively. Here’s to getting out there and expanding your network, you never who you are going to meet!

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Double Recommend

Any writer who submits to written coverage and walks away with a ‘Double Recommend’ gets featured in the Stage 32 Double Recommend Lookbook, sent to over 500 industry professionals. So a big congrats to the writers below who will appear in our May Lookbook. Well done, you all, very exciting!

• Logan Ayers with their script HIVE.
• CJ Johnson with the script EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE GLEN IRIS.
• JB Berg’s SWIPED screenplay.
• HEARTRACE by writer, and former Stage 32 Feature Fellowship Finalist, Will Bermender.
• Michael Mendershausen, with his second script to appear in a Double Recommend Lookbook this year, SAVING JESSICA.
• And finally RUMBLE CITY by writer Steven Trolinger.

Open Writing Assignments

For those who are members of the Writers' Room, you have the opportunity to submit to Open Writing Assignments from vetted industry professionals who are actively looking for new writers and material. These writers crushed it last month getting selected for these OWAs!

Producer Seeks Feature Film Scripts That Can Be Shot In Greece (0290)

• Maritsa Flaherty (MIDNIGHT AT METEORA)
• Robert Wooldridge (METAMORPHOSIS)
• Sudanya Kirk (SANTORINI NIGHTS)

Producer Seeks Horror Feature Film Scripts With Catholic Elements or Themes (0291)

• Christian Hearn (THE HIDING)
• Tyler Dunning Evans (TIDES)
• Marisa Forrest (KUDZU)
• Sean Mogridge (VESSEL)

Producer Seeks Disaster or Big Action/Adventure Feature Film Scripts (0292)

• David Scott Martin (RIDERS IN THE SKY)
• Marisa Forrest (SKYFOXES)
• Natalie Duncan (ASHANTI MAROON)
• Aaron Michael Bailey (THE HEROINE OF WRANGEL ISLAND)
• Matthew Kelcourse (GEMINI WORLD)
• Michael Mendershausen (IN THE MIDST OF ARMS)

Producer Seeks Fresh Horror Features (0293)

• Emily Winter (BRIDE AND DOOM)
• Tanya Klein (PSYCHOPATHY)
• Christopher Guerrero (ASSIMILATED)
• Andrew McGivern (THE MOVE)
• Briana Cox (INDIGENT)

Producer Seeks R-Rated High School Comedies (0294)

• Alec Moore (VIRGIN ORGY)
• Aimee McGuire LeMaster (YOUNG & PURE)
• Marisa Forrest (CLOSER TO FINE)
• Christian Hearn (THE BOY WHO HAD 3 ARMS)
• Tammy Klembith (CUT & BLOW)

Producer Seeks Elevated Romantic Comedy Features (0295)

• Arun Narayanan (REWINDER)
• Jenna D'Angelo (LADY PLAYER)
• Walker Hare (SAVE THE DATE)
• Peter Andrews (POWER COUPLE)
• Christopher Isenegger (CIGARETTE EMOJIS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE)
• Jenna Macari (CATCH AND RELEASE)

Producer Seeks Elevated Biopic Features (0296)

• Dango Forth (FIRST IN FLIGHT)
• Jason Kessler (THE TRIALS OF THE BOSTON MASSACRE)
• Bill Brock (JAMES DEAN: CROSSING THE FINISH LINE)
• Teng Ky-Gan (JHO LOW)
• Laurie Ashbourne (ROE V. NORMA)
• Andy Maycock (SPLINTER)
• Anthony Murphy (THE OLD MASTER)

Producer Seeks IP-based Features (0297)

• Travis Carr (SLIGHTLY OUT OF FOCUS)
• Dango Forth (THE CHRONIC ARGONAUTS)
• Teng Ky-Gan (JHO LOW)
• Mark Miller (FIRE LAKE)
• Staton Rabin (BETSY AND THE EMPEROR)
• Kelly Eisenbrand and Sammie Mallory (STITCHPUNKS)

Producer Seeks Castable Commercial Comedy Features (0298)

• Charles Andrew (THE BERBER KING)
• David Blaustein (QWERTY: A TYPING TALE)
• Rahul Vijay (SLEEPER)
• Francisco Castro (YEAH, DUDE, I'M A SPY)
• Amir Mo (HOW I SHOT SANTA ON CHRISTMAS)
• Jenna D'Angelo (LADY PLAYER)

Producer Seeks Edgy Festival Circuit Feature Film Scripts (0299)

• Arthur Tiersky (IN THE SACK)
• Paul Sokal (BAD AIM)
• Mary Cross (SLUTS)
• Travis Carr (BOBTAIL
• Rahul Vijay (SLEEPER)
• Matilda Corey Schulman (MIRI & GAV)
• Christian Hearn (THE BOY WHO HAD THREE ARMS)
• Nick Rose (ADRENOCHROME)

Producer Seeks Indie Feature Scripts That Can Be Made for Under $5Mil (0300)

• Lucas Abreu (STRANDED)
• Nick Rose (ADRENOCHROME)
• Travis Carr (BOBTAIL)
• Marisa Forrest (KUDZU
• Matilda Corley Schulman (MIRI & GAV)
• Rahul Vijay (SLEEPER)

Producer Seeks True Crime Feature Scripts (0301)

• Dave Miller (THE MISUNDERSTANDING)
• Nick Adams (STEALING LINCOLN)
• Paul A. Kimball (THE BALTIMORE PLOT)
• Paul Sokal (CAIN)
• Teng Ky-Gan (JHO LOW)

Stage 32 Creators also had an incredible 75 Script Requests and 24 Meeting Requests! These requests come from high-end outfits such as Phoenix Pictures, Verve Talent and Literary Agency, and Zero Gravity Management.

The Stage 32 team, as always, is so proud of and bowled over by everything that our fantastic community members have accomplished in just this past month of May alone, and we know that this next month will be even better. Keep it up!

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