The Stage 32 Videos: Pitch

"Vanessa’s World” is an unscripted reality series that follows an unforgettable woman and her equally dynamic family as they navigate the unpredictable, hilarious, and deeply emotional moments of everyday life. At the center is Vanessa—stunning, outspoken, and fiercely loyal. She’s the kind of person who will plan a spontaneous trip in minutes, call things exactly as she sees them, and still show up for everyone in her life with unmatched energy and heart. She doesn’t just manage chaos—she thrives in it. Her family is just as compelling. Her 18-year-old son, a brain cancer survivor, brings humor, honesty, and a unique perspective that constantly shifts the emotional tone of the room. Her athletic 12-year-old keeps the pace fast and competitive, while her sharp-tongued, quick-witted stepson with muscular dystrophy delivers humor and insight far beyond his years. Together with her outdoorsman husband—who turns every day into an adventure—the family creates a world that is equal parts unpredictable and inspiring. Set on acres of wooded land filled with dogs, chickens, ducks, dirt trails, and constant motion, the show blends high-energy outdoor adventures (fishing, hiking, tubing, four-wheeling, camping, spontaneous travel) with raw, real-life moments—parenting challenges, medical realities, relationship dynamics, and the emotional weight Vanessa carries behind the scenes. This is not just a family show—it’s a portrait of resilience, humor, and what it truly means to live fully, even when life is anything but easy.

It's been a while since I last posted a pitch trailer, and I'm glad to be back! Here's a WriterDuet-ScreenplayIQ video spotlighting a feature-length comedy-crime-drama script I wrote where a modern-day Las Vegas teenager sets out to get people in her community to interact with each other. Her solution: Bring those colorfully-painted outdoor pianos to Sin City...America's last major holdout municipality (and the site of a 2017 killing spree at a music festival).

Here's to the success waiting to come in a new year...and let's hear it for the folks at WriterDuet (with their ScreenplayIQ program)! Well...anyway...here's a pitch trailer touting a comedy screenplay of mine in which a retirement consultant and a realtor elevate their cooking hobby by opening a pizza parlor in modern-day Sacramento. (Okay...the twosome don't know a thing about running a restaurant or the industry's ups and downs...but still...) Hope you enjoy the trailer!

A short game story: In an abstract world of concrete, rows of mannequins stand sleeping. An Angel of Light flew between their rows, brushing them with its luminous wings. And one mannequin woke up from the Angel's touch. It opened its eyes and began searching for a way out. The three stages of the protagonist Mannequin's journey: 1. Sleep. 2. Awakening. 3. The search for self and an exit from the abstract matrix. 4. Liberation, emergence into the real world.

Well...here it is...and it's courtesy of the folks at WriterDuet (specifically, the company's ScreenplayIQ program). It's a trailer propping up the closest thing I've got to a romcom. This screenplay owes more to "The Fabulous Baker Boys," because it's about a theater student and her ultrafeminist younger sister teaming up in modern-day Chicago to form a duo-piano lounge act...that Big Sister's singing ex-boyfriend schemes to horn in on. (Never mind that the two siblings are out to strengthen their bond.)

Well...it's time to offer up a ScreenplayIQ-created pitch trailer to back up the TV sitcom pilot I came up with...where the three mechanics at an auto-repair firm in today's New Orleans try to get their boss to hire an extra coworker to lighten the load (more vehicles than time to fix them). Hope you enjoy the trailer!

Fresh from WriterDuet's ScreenplayIQ division, here it is...a pitch trailer touting a comedy screenplay about an Arizona Cardinals cheerleader who seeks to save a landmark restaurant in modern-day Mesa, AZ from becoming the Metro Phoenix area's new DHS headquarters.

Here's another ScreenplayIQ offering...this time propping up a comedy where two ballerinas in modern-day Kansas City, MO ponder life after ballet...and answer the bell by taking a page out of dancer-turned-singer Vanessa Carlton's playbook and becoming blues musicians at a famed local bar and grill.

That comedy screenplay about the Beatles' 2-9-1964 appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" inspiring an Iowa teen to start her own rock group now has a ScreenplayIQ-generated pitch trailer to go along with the video lookbook I came up with in 2020. What a difference five years make...

ScreenplayIQ did it again! This time, it put together a pitch trailer to prop up a comedy-drama where, thanks to a phone call from one of her old buddies from college, a librarian in modern-day Ames, IA sets out to put her old rock band back together...and conquer a famous local venue. Thanks, ScreenplayIQ!

It's the first time I've created one this extensive. Making it into a video allows the viewer to cruise through. I kinda love it.

The folks at screenplayiq.com did it again! This time, they generated a pitch trailer in support of a comedy screenplay where a teen in 1994 Davenport, IA draws inspiration from a videotape to...start her own Dixieland band in the hopes of playing that local jamboree called the Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival.