J R O'Hara

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrohara-write/
Screenwriter

Brooklyn, New York

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May 2018

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About J

Finished a short script about a trash-obsessed man who becomes embroiled in controversy when a subway altercation goes viral.

Finish a drama called "Same as it Ever Was" about a man who has been on auto-pilot for years, trying to please people and slowly losing touch with himself. He comes home from a trip with one of his high school buddies and discovers that his wife has been murdered.

I started out as an actor, working in rodent-infested off-off Broadway theaters with leaky roofs and sparse audiences. Eventually I began to write plays and then screenplays, moving to Los Angeles eighteen years ago without a plan.

Nine years later I was a Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist and a graduate of UCLA’s Professional Screenwriter Program, but the demands and responsibilities of fatherhood forced me to shift my priorities.

As an older traveler with roots in the industrial northeast, and currently living in Brooklyn, I am drawn to stories of survival, characters who will stop at nothing to get what they want, who walk a tightrope between their dreams and reality.

I am on this site to find collaborators with whom I can create compelling, thrilling, brilliant movies.

I specialize in dramas and thrillers and am currently available to do writing assignments - rewrite a screenplay, punch up dull dialogue, adapt a book, or write a screenplay from a producer or director’s idea. Always happy to provide a writing sample.

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Piggy, Piggy Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Obsessed with the trash on the streets, a man's confrontation with a passenger who litters on the subway goes viral, changing his life.
Same as it Ever Was Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Crime A man who has been on auto-pilot for years - trying to please people and slowly losing touch with himself - comes home from a trip and discovers that his wife has been murdered, sending him on a journey to rediscover his creative essence.
Relentlessly Anjelica Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama After turning to prostitution to help save her family's home, a school teacher finds herself in the middle of a couple's deadly tug-of-war.
Holding the Pole Drama Residents of an apartment complex in West LA struggle maintain their balance and restore their lives in post-COVID America.