WRITING

Eric is a comedy screenwriter who has penned several award-winning projects. He has also written adaptations of operas for Opera on Tap’s Playground Opera and Opera Baltimore, and writes the column Inside the Industry and freelance articles for Classical Singer Magazine.

TABLESCAPE - Feature (2025)

GENRE - Comedy/Murder Mystery

Logline: A savvy competitor enters the Ohio State Fair Tablescape Competition and finds herself embroiled in a series of gruesome murders. When the assembled clues point towards her, she discovers that she has to work alongside two bickering security guards and a wacky alien hunter to figure out how to stop the killer while proving her own innocence.

Quarterfinalist - 2025 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Diversity Initiative XII

DON’T BE TOO BLACK - Feature (2023)

GENRE - Comedy

Logline: Luther, a queer, black actor must navigate his precarious career, pitiful love life, and puzzled parents, all while constantly questioning if he is, indeed, the right “type” of black.

Semifinalist - 2025 Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards, Season 10

Semifinalist - 2025 Table Read My Screenplay Competition (Hollywood)

Finalist - 2024 9th Annual Stage 32 Comedy Feature Screenwriting Contest

Semi-Finalist - 2024 Table Read My Screenplay Competition

Quarterfinalist - 2024 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition,

Quarterfinalist - 2024 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab, Spring

Semi-Finalist - 2023 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Diversity Initiative V

THE DIVA’S LAST ACT - TV Pilot (2022)

GENRE - Comedy

Logline: A reclusive opera diva is ready to return to the spotlight. But when she discovers that she is “dead” to the opera world and that the government thinks she’s actually dead, she, her scrappy assistant, and her new agent must find a way to bring her back to life, literally and figuratively.

Quarterfinalist - 2025 Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards, Season 10

Quarterfinalist - 2025 Table Read My Screenplay Competition (Hollywood)

Quarterfinalist - 2025 Creative Screenwriting TV Pilot Screenplay Competition

Semi-Finalist - 2023 Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards, Season 8

Second Rounder - 2023 10th Annual Launch Pad Pilot Competition

Quarterfinalist - 2022 Portland Screenplay Awards

MARINA WANTS TO BE A SPINSTER - Feature (2021)

GENRE - Rom Com with a Twist, Broad Comedy

Logline: After breaking up with her boyfriend, a Romance Novelist is ready to become a spinster. But her story changes when she meets a handsome suitor and must choose between a happy ending or joining the mysterious Spinsterhood Sisterhood.

Quarterfinalist - 2025 Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 10

Quarterfinalist - 2024 Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition

Quarterfinalist - 2023 Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 8

Quarterfinalist - 2023 Table Read My Screenplay Competition

Quarterfinalist - 2023 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition

Quarterfinalist - 2023 Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition

Quarterfinalist - 2022 Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition

ESPIONAGE HITS THE HIGH “C”: A CHRISTOFF LEWIS MYSTERY - Short Feature (2021)

GENRE - Comedy

Logline: After discovering that his favorite diva may be a clone, a geeky opera buff and his best friend must untangle a mysterious plot orchestrated by a secret organization.

Quarterfinalist - 2022 Portland Screenplay Awards

Quarterfinalist - 2021 New York City International Screenplay Awards

Quarterfinalist - Season 6 Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards

Round One 5th Place - 2021 NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge

WE KNOW EACH OTHER SO WELL - Feature (2020)

GENRE - Comedy

Logline: When Drew surprises Kearstin by inviting her former friend, Nadia, to their wedding festivities, Nadia’s presence forces them to reveal hidden truths, test boundaries, and discover how well they actually know each other.

Quarterfinalist - 2021 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition

THE COACH - TV Pilot (2018)

GENRE - Comedy Audio Fiction

Logline: Evan Nixon is a former performer-turned-Life-Coach. Aided by his huband, his BFF, and his mentor, Miss Erica, of Miss Erica’s Life-Coaching Institute and Cross-Dressing Academy, Evan navigates a host of zany clients, while also “life-coaching” his own journey.

Named to Feedspot.com’s “50 Best Comedy Fiction Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025”

Nominee - 2024 LA Webfest Awards: Best Comedy/Adventure Podcast and Best Director of a Podccast

Semi-Finalist - 2020 Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival

Semi-Finalist - 2020 Page Turner Screenplays TV Pilot LGBTQ+ Competition

2nd Place - 2018 TVWriter.com People’s Pilot Competition

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