Alan C. Baird

Alan C. Baird

Mesa, Arizona

Script Doctor/Consultant/Editor at 9TimeZones.com
PlaywrightScreenwriterAuthorFilmmaker

About Alan

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Life Experience

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Achievements

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Awards

  • Amazon Best Sellers [Côte d'Azur, Vlad the Impaler, Eleven Thousand Virgins, Merlinsky]
    (2021)

  • Screenwriters Network Competition semi-finalist [Côte d'Azur]
    (2020)

  • Screenwriters Network Competition semi-finalist [Vlad the Impaler]
    (2020)

  • Sun Microsystems Community Innovation Award - $3,333 [Screenwright(R) screenplay formatter]
    (2008)

  • American Gem Short Screenplay Competition eighth finalist [Azért is..! - Despite everything..!]
    (2007)

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Credits

  • Wallachia: Reign of Dracula

    Wallachia: Reign of Dracula (2020)
    Video Game Writer I was hired to help write some of the cutscenes in this "retro-styled action platformer/shooter game." My first question was, "What's a cutscene?"

  • Hidden Palms

    Hidden Palms (2007)
    TV Series by The CW (Drama) Actor Pilot episode written by Kevin Williamson (Scream, Dawson's Creek), filmed in Palm Springs, California. The "Tennis Player" (uncredited) character's sole claim to fame was that he sat behind Gail O'Grady in several shots.

  • Max Headroom

    Max Headroom (1988)
    TV Series by ABC (Science Fiction) Second Unit Director Directed background footage for Network XXIII monitors (they bought my student film, see below).

  • Country Days, Nashville Nights

    Country Days, Nashville Nights (1981)
    TV Series (Musical) Director. Associate Producer Directed 13 half-hour episodes of this syndicated program, a tax write-off scheme.

  • Hollywood Close-Up

    Hollywood Close-Up (1981)
    TV Series (Musical) Director. Associate Producer Directed 10 half-hour episodes of this syndicated program, another tax write-off scheme.

  • Jimmie Rodgers, Live at the Palomino

    Jimmie Rodgers, Live at the Palomino (1981)
    Television (Musical) Associate Producer Music/variety TV special recorded live at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood, California.

  • Them Apples

    Them Apples (1980)
    Video (Talk Show) Producer, Writer A variety/talk-show TV special produced at the studios of New York University and aired on Manhattan Cable TV.

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live (1979)
    TV Series by NBC (Comedy) Actor 15 Dec: S5, Ep7. "Key Page" (uncredited) alongside Martin Sheen in the Studio 8H entrance hallway. Lorne said it was okay. Later helped David Bowie carry his plastic roly-poly punching doll costume down to the limo. A dream come true!

  • A Night in the Day of a Night Receptionist

    A Night in the Day of a Night Receptionist (1972)
    Film (short) Director, Writer Debut student film (Michigan State U) purchased by ABC-TV's Max Headroom series in their "Cash For Trash" initiative.

  • Côte d'Azur

    Côte d'Azur
    Producer, Screenwriter "There's nothing quite so romantic as spending one's youth in a foreign land." Amazon Best Seller & the screenplay was a Semi-Finalist (feature-length) in the Screenwriters Network Competition (May 2020).

  • Merlinsky

    Merlinsky
    Producer, Screenwriter "Imagine the Lord of the Rings meets Harry Potter and they go back to the future." Amazon Best Seller & the screenplay was a Quarter-Finalist in the 1st American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest (2003) & the 8th Writers Network Screenplay Competition (2001).

Loglines

  • Azért is..! (Despite everything..!)

    Azért is..! (Despite everything..!) Budget: $0 - $100K | Animation Adventure Even though this European nation has existed for more than a thousand years, over 70% of the country "vanished" after World War One. Today, the exiles' great-great-great-grandkids still think in Magyar.

  • iSex

    iSex Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance Comedy Blind dating in the iPhone X and XXX era. Who says mobile phones can't double as sex toys? Boy meets girl, girl likes boy's vibrating phone, boy gets girl. 24Jan2020: Hrvatski rights optioned. ALL the non-Croatian-language rights are still available. Including English. 3pp. Stage32.com/loglines/25590

  • Vlad the Impaler: Son of Dracul

    Vlad the Impaler: Son of Dracul Budget: $10M - $30M | Period Piece Horror Many will assume this is just another retelling of the "Dracula" horror myth... but Vlad's story is true. Amazon Best Seller & the screenplay was a Semi-Finalist (feature-length) in the Screenwriters Network Competition (August 2020).

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