Coexisting
original half-hour pilot
Winner - TV Writer Chat Pilot Contest 2013
Cynical hypochondriac Eva Russo invokes a visit from her guardian angel, Angelo, after she drunkenly offers to be a surrogate mother for her infertile sister, Kate. Amid her growing feelings for her gynecologist, her religious parents’ negative ideas about surrogacy, her impending 30th birthday, her OCD, a kindhearted bartender and a really crappy guardian angel, Eva must decide if her love for her sister is stronger than her own fears.
Mac Friday
family-friendly, feature length screenplay
co-written with Michele Giannusa
AWARDS:
Official Selection for the 2014 International Family Film Festival Quarter-finalist in Screencraft’s Family Friendly Script Contest
Quarter-finalist in the Creative World Awards
Synopsis:
Dave MacKenzie (Mac), an out-of-touch father desperate for his preteen daughter's affection, devises a plan when he discovers a limited edition iPhone is set to be released on the busiest shopping day of the year, Black Friday, inspiring him to drop everything and camp outside a local electronic store for three months to ensure his place in line.
Funplanet
original half-hour pilot
Screenplays
Television
Michelle Bergamo
Lake Girls
feature-length screenplay
AWARDS:
The Writers Lab - Quarter-finalist 2024
One mystery. Two timelines.
Thirty years after a charming swim instructor mysteriously disappeared from their small NJ lake town, four lifelong friends look to their mothers to find out what really happened in the summer of 1988.
Miss Christmas Daisy
family-friendly, feature length screenplay
co-written with Michele Giannusa
AWARDS:
2017 PAGE Award Finalist - Family-friendly category
Official Selection for the 2016 International Family Film Festival
Semi-Finalist in Screencraft's Family-Friendly Screenplay Contest
Synopsis:
When a major TV studio buys the rights to a holiday pageant in the small town of Loveland, Ohio, tempers flare between the once friendly neighbors as they try to uncover a secret saboteur.
2 Broke Girls "And the Unhappy Waitress"
spec script
Quarter-finalist - Scriptapalooza TV
Jersey Birdies
feature-length screenplay
coming SUMMER 2025 - a RufCut Pictures film - in post-production
AWARDS:
Quarter-Finalist in Scriptapalooza's Screenplay Contest
Maria balances her own life-struggles as she tries to save her late sister's softball team.
Baby Steps
feature length screenplay
by Michelle Bergamo
adapted from my play of the same name
AWARDS:
Finalist - Cynosure Awards - 2017, Female Protagonist Category
Synopsis: