Screenplays/Teleplays/Stage Plays
Anh Sang (Screenplay)
(Grand Prize, 2017 Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition;
Finalist, Fifteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest;
Winner, Best LGBT Feature Screenplay, AMSTERDAM 2018, New Renaissance Screenwriting Competition;
Second Place, 2018 Write Brothers Feature Screenplay Competition, Canada International Film Festival;
Winner, Feature Screenplay, LGBT Toronto Film Festival, November 2017;
First Place, June-July 2017 Edition of The Monthly Film Festival Screenplay Competition;
Top Ten, 86th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition;
Silver Prize Winner in Drama, 2017 Hollywood Screenplay Contest;
Quarter-Finalist, 2017 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Contest;
Finalist, TeaDance Film Festival Screenplay Competition;
Honorable Mention, WriteMovies June/July 2017 Featured Script of the Month)
Sideways Down the Sky (Screenplay)
(Grand Prize Winner, Barren Branches LGBTQ Screenplay, Rhode Island International Film Festival;
Finalist, 2017 Contest of Contest Winners Screenplay Competition;
Semi-Finalist, 14th Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest;
Top 75, 2016 Tracking Board Launch Pad Feature Screenplay Competition;
Finalist, 2016 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Competition;
Semi-Finalist, Carmesi House International Screenplay Competition;
Finalist, Great Gay Screenplay Contest;
Finalist, TeaDance Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Screenplay Contest;
Finalist, Cannes Screenplay Contest)
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Paradise at Main and Elm (Screenplay)
(Finalist, TMC London Film Festival;
Finalist, Great Gay Screenplay Contest)
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Branching Out (Spec Script)
(Winner, WILDsound October 2013 Screenplay Contest)
Nagasaki (Short Screenplay)
(Nominee, Toronto International Film and Video Awards;
Finalist, 1st Annual TeaDance Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Competition;
Quarter Finalist, Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition;
Nominated for the Culture & Heritage Award and the Diversity & Inclusion Award in the Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition)
The Celestial (Screenplay)
(Finalist, Global Script Challenge; Finalist, Best Overall Concept in the 2017 Oaxaca International Film Festival;
Finalist, Las Vegas Screenplay Contest;
Finalist, 1st Annual TeaDance Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Competition;
Honorable Mention in the Canada International Film Festival/Write Brothers Screenplay Competition;
Finalist, Great Gay Screenplay Competition;
Gold Award Winner, International Independent Film Awards;
First Place, 2014 Rhode Island International Film Competition;
Nominated for the Diversity & Inclusion Award and the Humanitarian Award in the Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition;
Quarter-Finalist, Bluecat Screenplay Competition, Features category)
Reunion (Screenplay)
(Silver Award Winner, International Independent Film Awards;
Semi-Finalist, Marquee Lights Screenplay Contest;
Finalist, 1st Annual TeaDance Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Competition;
4th Place, London Film Awards Screenplay Competition;
Nominated for the Diversity & Inclusion Award in the Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition)
Ficelle (Stage Play)
(2nd Rounder, 1st Annual Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition)
The Gift: Home Is Where the Hearts Are (Pilot)
(Finalist, Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest, 2006 & 2008)
The Simpsons: She Derided Me With Science (Spec Script)
(3rd Place Winner, 79th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition;
Semi-Finalist, WriteSafe Art & Writing Competition)
The Simpsons: What a Revoltin’ Development (Spec Script)
(3rd Place Winner, Scriptapalooza TV Competition;
Silver Award, American Movie Awards;
Finalist, Las Vegas Screenplay Contest;
Finalist, 2014 Beverly Hills Screenplay Competition;
Honorable Mention, 74th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition;
Semi-Finalist, WriteSafe Art & Writing Competition;
Semi-Finalist, WriteMovies.com International Competition #14)
The Simpsons: A Spoonful of Medicine Helps the Medicine Go Down (Spec Script)
(Grand Prize Winner, American Movie Awards;
Finalist, Las Vegas Screenplay Contest;
Semi-Finalist, WriteSafe Art & Writing Competition;
Top 100 (#36), 80th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition)
Tinseltown (Screenplay)
(Finalist, WriteMovies.com International Competition #27;
Top 100, 80th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition)
The Gifted (Pilot)
(Finalist, Las Vegas Screenplay Contest;
Quarter-Finalist, Final Draft Big Break Contest;
2nd Round, Austin Film Festival)
Kill Them With Kindness (Short Screenplay)
(Selected to the top ten percent in the Bluecat Screenplay Competition, Shorts category)
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