Hellooooo, Stage 32 Community!

2025 is off and running! Hope everyone is doing well and working towards achieving your goals for this new year!

With that said, here we go with the first Success Story Roundup of 2025! This is our monthly salute to just some of the amazing and talented members of the Stage 32 community who have had some success to tout from this past month. This year really does feel like it’s kicking off with a bang, as we have some fantastic stories to share. We sincerely enjoy reporting on the successes of these hard-working writers and creatives, seeing this progress is part of what makes working at Stage 32 such a great place!

We are extremely cognizant of the heart and soul you all put into your work every day, and we want you to know that we see you, and we are here for it. And when that hard work pays off with some honest-to-goodness progress and movement, nothing makes us happier!

Without further ado, let’s dive into the signings, deals, meetings, script requests, and some of the super duper happenings from the month of January…

Success Stories

Congrats to member and filmmaker Joey Wojcik. Our own Executive Liaison Nick Phillips (aka me) has added his name as an Executive Producer to Joey’s short film Expressway to Your Skull, as preparations are made to take the film out on the festival circuit. They connected on a Short Film Review + 30 Minute Call. Ready to rock, Joey!

Congrats to member Gary A. Piazza. The film he wrote, Dig Me No Grave, was recently released on Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms. Gary cites coverage he received from execs Julia Verdin and Alex Kirschenbaum as being critical to fine-tuning the script which then helped it garner more attention. Gary was even able to travel to the UK set of the film and shoot and edit BTS/Making Of footage. Kudos, Gary, that’s awesome!

Congrats to writer/director Richard Zelniker who met former Stage 32 writer turned producer Brodrick Haygood through a Stage 32 Rom Com Screenplay Contest. Brodrick was a judge and Richard’s script was selected as the winner, and they had a meeting after that. They kept in touch, and now a few years later Brodrick executive produced and co-financed a film that Richard wrote and directed called The Vortex. It will be released in a limited theatrical run at the end of February. Way to go, guys!

Congrats to writer Jane Tumminello, who has her first produced horror short. It was produced and directed by Christine Jansen, with whom Jane connected on Stage 32, and the film is now available to watch on YouTube and Vimeo. So great to see things come together like that. Amazing job, Jane and Christine!

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Double Recommend

Any writer who submits to written coverage and walks away with a ‘Double Recommend’ gets featured in the Stage 32 Double Recommend Lookbook, sent to over 500 industry professionals every month. So let’s give a huge round of applause to the writers below who will appear in our January Lookbook.

Michael J. Shapiro with the script RUN! RUN! RUN! – THE LIVES OF ABBIE HOFFMAN.

Brock Newell for the screenplay THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS.

Andrew James for BATTY.

Rick Akins and the screenplay CRYSTAL WEB.

A SPLENDID SUN by writer Lissa Coffey.

And last but not least, the screenplay THE LADY IN RED by Martin Greenstein.

Open Writing Assignments

For those who are members of the Writers' Room, you have the opportunity to submit to Open Writing Assignments from vetted industry professionals who are actively looking for new writers and material. These writers crushed it last month getting selected for these OWAs!

Producer Seeks Espionage/Crime Feature Film for Any Budget Location Cast and Script Type (0399)

• John Cooney (THE ART OF LIES)
• Michelle Claase (DECOY)
• Ashley James Louis (A LONG SHADOW AT NOON)
• Roberto Mitrotti (THE CARDINAL'S SPY)
• Stewart Fergus (THE IMMACULATE DECEPTION)
• Tim Bechen (DIG TWO GRAVES)
• Michael Mendershausen (IN THE MIDST OF ARMS)

Producer Seeks Dark Comedy Feature Film for Any Budget Location Cast and Script Type (0401)

• Josh Breitfeller (17 DEEP IN THE BUFFALO)
• Patrick Connelly (MAN CAVE)
• Ellen Warner O'Brien (TIGHT)
• Terry Brody (OMG, SAME)
• Rahul Vijay (SLEEPER)
• Stuart Pollack (STAR OF THE TABOO NETWORK)

Production Company Seeks Family Dramas Set with Strong Connections to the Middle East for Any Budget Location Cast and Script Type (0403)

• Esmeralda M Kelly (THE PORTRAIT PAINTER)
• Dave Miller (THE ALEPPAN)
• Amir Mo (RESILIENT)
• Nastaran Nouri (ZIBA)
• Lisa Steadman (LAUREN OF ARABIA)
• Stewart Fergus (THE ACCIDENTAL TERRORIST)

Partner Seeks Supernatural Horror for Under $5mil, Location, Single/Dual Lead, and Script Type (0404)

• Rosario Pellerito (SAFE HAVEN)
• Alicia Renee Norman (THE ALGORITHM)
• Francisco Castro (THE SPLINTER)
• Dan Benamor (TAINTED)
• Carly Hebert (CROSSROADS)
• Steve Brown (PRECURSOR)
• Travis Seppala (EVERY ROOM IN THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTED)

Manager Seeks Action Comedy Features and TV Scripts for Under $30mil, Location, Single/Dual Lead, and Script Type (0405)

• Marine Mondelot (CODE BREAKER)
• Cannon Rosenau (CRAZY ATHOL)
• Marqus Bobesich (KILL TO BE YOU)
• Nick Rose (BASED AND REDPILLED SIGMA SAMURAI)
• Rahul Vijay (SLEEPER)
• James Moran (TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER DUMBASS)
• Hilary Van Hoose (DETECTIVE DEE DEE, REGISTERED NURSE)

Manager/Producer Seeks PG-13 Rom-Coms Feature Scripts for Any Budget, Location, Cast, and Script Type (0406)

• Laurie Boyle Crompton (THE REAL PROM QUEENS OF WESTFIELD HIGH)
• Dave Fein (JUST ONE YES)
• John Killoran (SCHOOL NIGHTS)
• Susan Lee Hahn (DOGS IN LOVE)
• Laura Lyte (SOMETIME THIS YEAR)
• Martina Rehm (SWIPE RIGHT AGAIN ON CHRISTMAS)

Manager Seeks Action Feature and TV Scripts for Under $30mil, Location, Single/Dual Lead, and Script Type (0408)

• Hunter Davis (CHECKOUT)
• Andrew M. Henderson (PROJECT H+)
• Paul A. Kimball (MAYBE THE DEVIL)
• John Doble (THE ROMMEL GAMBIT)
• Marisa Forrest (SKYFOXES)

Manager Seeks Comedy Features and TV Scripts for Under $30mil, Location, Single/Dual Lead, and Script Type (0410)

• Lucas Abreu (ONE OF ONE)
• John Killoran (SCHOOL NIGHTS)
• Adrienne Thorne (STUDS)
• Josh Miller (SWINDLERS)
• Ellen Warner O'Brien (TIGHT)
• Matt Hyams (ON THE LINE)
• Terry Brody (FIRE ACADEMY)

Script and Meeting Requests

Stage 32 Creators also had 146 Script Requests and 58 Meeting Requests during that span! These requests came from high end outfits such as Happy Place Productions, Zero Gravity Management, MaCromanagement, The Exchange, Act Natural, Hunting Lane Films, Propagate Content, Kersey Management, Whitewater Films, Sandstone Artists, Life Out Loud Films, Luber Roklin Entertainment, Titan1 Studios, Established Artists, Phoenix Pictures, Buffalo 8/Bondit Media Capital, Empress Films, ScriptVentures, Atla Global Media, LINK Entertainment, Little Studio Films, CAA and FX Networks.

What an excellent start to this year! A big thank you to each and every one of you, we are so grateful for you and everything you do to make the Stage 32 community the special place that it is. This month is yet another opportunity to witness and support the many accomplishments and achievements for our talented members, and it is our absolute pleasure to do our part in helping with those. Seeing these successes makes it all worth it! It inspires us, and we hope you all feel that same inspiration!

February has even more amazing things in store, we just know it.

See you next month!

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