Marla Dean

Screenwriter

Austin, Texas

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About Marla

Marla Dean, MA., Ph.D. teaches creative writing at the University of Phoenix, Humanities at the University of Kaplan and Acting as well as Introduction to Theatre at Austin Community College. She recently completed her first novel, SIMPLE MACHINES with her co-writer Manuel Carreon and was one of the winners of Texas Authors 2015 Short Story Competition with her story, “The Dog”. She is a director of some sixty plays and musicals and an awarded playwright. Currently her co-writer and she are completing a three book military thriller series, Mahim.

Theatre Historian, stage director, playwright, screenwriter, novelist

Unique traits: novelist, screenwriter, playwright, war, military intrigue, action, thrillers,comedy

Gender:
Female

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Master Sergeant Joseph Cevera is a respected man, decorated soldier, and feared leader of one of the most highy trained and lethal Army units in the Afghanistan conflict. What happens when they unbreakable is broken? We see this erupting world through the eyes of a seasoned warrior as he is pushed to the edge of his humanity. SIMPLE MACHINES takes us deep into the interior of the American Army Ranger and the volatile combat zone of the Special Ops Team during a hundred days of deployment.
This is a war novel with the rush of battle, agony of loss, and courage of the undefeated. It is not for the faint of heart or those who look romantically at war and heroes. The stark reality of life and death choices made during battle depict an anti-hero, damaged and questioning the price he and his men are asked to pay.

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Series Title "Mackenzie"" Pilot title: Into the Rabbit Hole A teenage girl with remarkable skills hacks into the uncrackable data base of the NSA and is recruited to save the world from alien invaders.
Series Title: The Domino Club - Pilot Title: "Onward through the Fog" Comedy Disguised as a domino club, a team of elderly eccentrics rally to save the world through random acts of environmental terrorism.