Adam Balsam

Screenwriter and Script Consultant

Los Angeles, California

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February 2021

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About Adam

Born and raised in NYC, now based in L.A. (well, Van Nuys, but you get the idea). Produced screenwriter with credits in TV and film. Preferred genres: comedy, horror, thriller, animation. Studied/performed improv comedy at the Groundlings school, Second City Conservatory, Improv Olympic. Professional Script Reader who's analyzed roughly 1,000 scripts and books. Speaks Russian. Married, kids, dog, cat. Really good at Boggle. And… scene.

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Time Carrier Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi When a modern nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is transported back to the time of the American Revolution, the captain and crew must wrestle with whether to intervene in the founding of the country.
The Twinkles Budget: $10M - $30M | Music ⋄ Comedy In a last-ditch effort to become famous, the leader of a long-haired rock 'n roll bar band convinces his debauched bandmates to reinvent themselves as a kiddie band; but in order to make it in the surprisingly cutthroat world of kiddie entertainment, these stunted rockers must figure out a way to finally grow up.
The Camp Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror Hoping for reconciliation, a father takes his estranged wife and kids camping, only to encounter an even more dysfunctional backwoods family that wants to tear his family apart. Literally.
Bad Nanny Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller When a single mom gets a lucrative job requiring a lot of travel, she reluctantly hires a nanny for her troubled tween daughter, with disastrous results.
Blood-Sucking Leeches and Flesh-Eating Maggots Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Comedy A stripper stranded in a desert town must escape the clutches of a deranged local doctor practicing experimental medicine.
The Village Idiot Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy The misadventures of Dumkopf, a medieval Village Idiot who yearns to move up in life and become a Fool.
The Hammer Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Crime When a down and out Atlantic City gambler unwittingly steals a Russian gangster's chips and duplicitous girlfriend, he must race across country to Las Vegas to cash in the chips before the mob, and his own past, catch up with him.