Writing Samples


The Opposition

Pilot. Half-hour single camera workplace comedy. 2021.

When a cartoonishly evil government takes over Saskatchewtoba, Canada’s 11th province, the determined staff of the province’s only opposition MPP must take on the gargantuan task of keeping the government in check.

The Opposition is a single-camera workplace comedy with the heart of Parks and Recreation and the surrealism of Man Seeking Woman or Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The series will follow the staff of our little constituency office as they battle to do good in a province literally run by monsters.

 

C*NTSERVATIVE

Pilot. Hour-long serialized political dark comedy. 2019.

A newly-elected feminist Conservative MP learns to navigate life on the Hill with the help of a suffragette's ghost.

Half-Cooked

Pilot. Hour-long light sci-fi spy procedural. 2020.

A snarky waitress with the power to "un-cook" food, is reluctantly recruited to join an underfunded Canadian intelligence agency whose mission is to track down people with powers like her.

An hour-long series in the fun, action-packed tone of Whiskey Cavalier, with the banter of Wynonna Earp, and driven by a strong sci-fi procedural element like Fringe.

Highness

Pilot. Hour-long family dark comedy. 2018.

After a young woman survives jumping in front of a subway train, she's  forced to return to the care of her estranged family – who happen to be an exiled royal family .

 

Series Pitches (PILOT IN PROGRESS)

UNSETTLING YORK

Hour-long historical character drama.

Toronto. 1798. An enslaved woman fights for her freedom as a group of unlikely nobles attempt to turn a stretch of woods into a thrivingnew colony.

Unsettling York is a 10x1 hour historical character drama following the founding of a frontier city like Deadwood, with the satirical bent of The Good Fight and the feminist lens of Harlots. The series will feature utterly insane historical truths enhanced with fiction, and complex characters with conflicting goals like The Great, set against the stunning backdrop of wilderness yet-to-be destroyed.




REASONABLE DOUBT

Hour-long crime procedural.

After being implicated in the suicide of a murder suspect, a big-city crime journalist moves to small-town Alberta to consult on historical homicide cases. 

Reasonable Doubt is a crime procedural focusing on one unsolved historical crime each episode, using a dual (past and present) timeline featuring members of the same crime-solving family – like Life on Mars meets This is Us, but in a tone more like Fargo or Dead To Me.


 

 

 

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