I spent many years as a Federal Probation and Parole Officer specializing in organized crime and protected witnesses. This profession served me well in developing an ear for dialogue (of a particular sort) as well as a nose for criminal intrigue. On a bet with a news reporter friend some years ago I wrote my first screenplay which was then titled SLOWDANCE IN PURGATORY (now titled THE LAST NOEL). With this script, I entered and won the Hawaii International Film Festival Screenplay Competition.

A short time later I entered my script LITTLE SAIGON in the Academy Foundation Nicholl Fellowship Screenplay Competition where it was a semi-finalist.

A third script, COOPERATING INDIVIDUAL, was optioned by Mike Farrell and Marvin Minoff of Farrell/Minoff Productions. Nothing came of it and the option expired.

I was later hired as a writer for a ShowTime television series titled STREET TIME. This bought me a three-year associate membership in the Writer’s Guild. It has since expired because I did not follow-up with another produced WGA script.

I did a bit of ghost writing during this period resulting in one produced script while working as an investigator completing backgrounds for government security clearances for various law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Please use  contact form for professional inquiries. Below is a current list of my available screenplays:

The Last Noel

Logline: After two stints in rehab and an unexcused AWOL, his bosses intend to bury the burned-out parole officer or at least deprive him of his 20 year pension. In the end, because of his past humanity, it is the folks he's locked up who rescue Zabrisky.

This script, under a different name (Slowdance in Purgatory) won first place the Hawaii International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.

Little Saigon

Logline: The only way for Duc Lam to save his family is to get them home—to Viet Nam—but no one in Honolulu intends to let that happen, not his PO, not the DEA, and most especially, not his triad brothers.

This script was a semi-finalist in the Academy Foundation Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting competition.

Cooperating Individual

Logline: A girl has worked her entire life to become a police officer. Because she’s from the Tenderloin it looks like the best job they will give her is as an informant. A crooked narcotics officer wants her to go after her friends, the people who protected her growing up. The narc has forgotten his own cardinal rule: Never trust a snitch.

This script was previously optioned to Mike Farrell and Marvin Minoff of Farrell/Minoff Productions..

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Logline: When an ill-tempered sheriff arrests an authority-averse vagrant, each becomes the object of the other's festering anger until it is discovered that they have a shared sorrow.

This script was a quarterfinalist in the 2025 Nashville Film Festival, the 2025 Page International Screenplay Competition and 2025 Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Competition. It is currently listed on Ink Tip and can be viewed by agents and producers on that website.

Timbuktu

Logline: An army kid who doesn't fit into his peer group's macho culture welcomes his family's latest transfer to a tiny Mediterranean island with the hope that he can leave his reputation behind. Then he finds that his nemesis has received the same transfer orders. It looks like history will repeat itself until the island comes under siege from the Islamic Army of God and the boy is able to demonstrate courage that he never knew he had.

Tinker's Damn

Logline: A fugitive member of Ireland’s most notorious Tinker clan, attempting to abandon his family’s life of crime, is forced to employ the nefarious skills of his father to survive in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.