Sheila D. Boyd
Upper West Indies
Editor and Screenwriter
Raleigh, North Carolina
July 2015
1 week ago
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About Sheila
Spec screenwriter and aspiring producer. Specialize in character drama, but love writing comedy. Several options; a few assignment gigs in development. A number of contest wins and placements; Finalist in the NYWIFT Writers Lab. To keep the lights on, I freelance in adapting source material to screenplays for a production company, edit/rewrite/proofread for other writers and creators, and ghostwrite books and short stories.
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Retribution Budget: $30M+ | Action ⋄ Drama A disgraced FBI agent is on her own when she finds the key to a killer cop case and becomes the target of police, a vigilante killer, and her former colleagues.
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Up Jumps the Devil Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Drama A small-town prosecuting attorney tries a case that could destroy her family.
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In Case I Have to Kill You Budget: $10M - $30M | Romance ⋄ Comedy A happily divorced woman takes her terminally ill ex into her home, but he has to die before her boyfriend gets back in town.
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Back to Life Family ⋄ Comedy A sixteen-year-old has to navigate two worlds after he successfully gets himself declared an emancipated minor.
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The Christmas Job Romance ⋄ Comedy A woman who hates Christmas gets put in charge of the office holiday celebration, and hires an ex-New Orleans pro football player named Nick, who has a knack for giving the perfect gift.
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Go Big Budget: $10M - $30M | Sports ⋄ Comedy A retired baseball legend in denial about his growing drinking problem tries to fix his life by winning an Olympic gold medal.
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The Last Day of Marvin Gay(e) Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Biography The imagined events based on the documented facts surrounding the murder of the music legend by his father.
Awards
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Finalist Stage 32 Biopic/True Story Screenplay Competition [The Last Day of Marvin Gay(e)]
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Finalist NYWIFT Writers Lab (In Case I Have to Kill You)
(2017)
Education
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Washington University in St. Louis/Olin School of Business
(1998-2000) -
UMKC School of Medicine
(1974-1980)
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