Screenplays
This page offers a compilation of scripts written by David over his lifetime available for download and by request.  Contact David for information on obtaining complete scripts, or click any "stage a production" link for licensing and production opportunities. 

ADAM
Adam Dobbs is a man in his early 40's who seems to have everything, yet his marriage and family are crumbling. When he is crippled by a hit-and-run driver, he's forced to reassess what is important in his life.

Adam takes on a major corporation when it threatens to destroy his community by closing down a large industrial plant that employs many of its residents. By risking everything in his life and "reinventing" himself, Adam finds the courage to stand up for his beliefs and in so doing, earns the respect of the community.

ADAM is the powerfully gripping tale of a man who must start his journey again.
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IN OTTIE'S WORLD
A high school teacher, tormented by childhood experiences of deprivation and abuse returns to his home in Appalachia to confront his disturbed, abusive mother, uncovering the story of her own violent coming-of-age.  Set in the late ’40s in North Carolina, it combines the setting and dramatic intensity of Winter’s Bone and the hardscrabble family saga of Moonlight.

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BOARSHEAD
A delightful, romantic comedy that celebrates actors, acting, and the 99-seat theatre venue in Los Angeles.

Trying to regain his self-esteem, an egoistic actor assembles a group of struggling, unemployed actors to play Shakespeare in a converted storefront in seedy Hollywood.

BOARSHEAD will make a touching but hilarious ensemble movie.

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DOG'S DAY
A joyous comedy about a man who finds love and enlightenment with the help of a stray dog.

His fight against City Hall turns strangers into friends, friends into family, and proves that a dog is everyone's best friend.

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EDDIE'S BOYS
A television pilot about friends you thought you knew and the lover you will never forget.

A gay "Golden Girls" meets "Sex and the City."

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MORE THAN A FRIEND
After being severely beaten by a young male psychopath, the 40ish Joanne abandons her work on the streets of New York City and struggles to build a new life.

Her journey brings her face to face with the daughter she gave up 24 years earlier, and with her daughter's fiancée . . . the same man who nearly killed Joanne five years earlier.

The final showdown at her daughter's wedding, proves Joanne to be MORE THAN A FRIEND.

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ST. JUDE'S
Kirk, a successful, but closeted gay man in his late 30's, is secretly mourning the recent death of his partner.

Kirk decides to volunteer some time at St. Jude's, a hospice, where he meets Marcy, a foul-mouthed, over-weight, single mother and nurse, and Jim, a rough, hard-living man who is dying alone of cancer. Jim confesses he was one of the bullies who taunted and beat Kirk when they attended high school.

ST. JUDE'S is a story of forgiveness and the unconventional love of three strangers who become a family.

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WALKING MOLLY
This love story set in New York City in the late 1980s, features a young man confronting his fears of loving someone who is HIV Positive.

The two men meet accidentally through Molly, a stubborn Scottish Terrier who brings them together on her daily walk through Central Park. While facing his partner's mortality, the protagonist reluctantly finds himself immersed in the daily life and rituals of his lover and his dog.

WALKING MOLLY is about the triumph of love in the face of adversity.
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