Roniel Tessler

Screenwriter

New York City, New York

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About Roniel

Roniel Tessler grew up in Potomac, MD, and graduated from the University of Maryland with a theatre degree and concentration in pre-med. After college, he moved to New York to pursue a writing career. In 2016, his pilot, Husky, won the inaugural Black List-ATX Script Competition, and in 2017, it was selected for The Unproduced Table Read, a podcast of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays. His first feature, Blue Moon, has received numerous accolades including a Best Screenplay nomination at the 2018 Oklahoma LGBT Film Festival, and was a second round finalist at the 2018 Austin Film Festival. Roniel recently completed his second feature, a gay thriller about the more sinister aspects of social media, and is at work on a TV comedy pilot about a plus-size dance company. In his free time, Roniel loves to go to the theatre, create monthly playlists, and unabashedly sport white Vans.

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Blue Moon Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama From the vaults of Hollywood’s Golden Age, comes the never-before-seen musical love affair of Edmond Merryweather, an amateur reporter, and Jack Morton, Broadway’s hottest star, in glorious 1940s NYC. But as their relationship inches towards a proposal, we realize their technicolor fantasy is not all it seems.
My Soul To Take Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller After newly-out Joey moves to New York, he finds his family in an elite group of beautiful, avocado-obsessed gay men. But after a boy is found dead, Joey uncovers the unnatural ways his clique uses social media to feed a malicious force that threatens to take his soul.
Husky Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy After years of being an outsider, fabulous and fat Jordan Zuber is determined to reign as he enters high school in a post-Glee, “Born This Way” world.
Shake It Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy Minette, an overweight MTA employee, has resigned herself to a life of unfulfilled dreams. But after she discovers a loud and proud plus-size dance company, she realizes a new lease on life might be just around the corner.