Meet Our Winners & Finalists
Aaron Dehn – 2025 Pilot Winner (Hour)
Gun MollLOVECRAFT COUNTRY meets THE PENGUIN in Prohibition-era Chicago. When the axe-murder of a corrupt alderman sets off a power vacuum, Lu—an early queer photographer and scam artist—is dragged back into the criminal underworld by her ambitious ex—a mobster trans man—tying them to a city-wide conspiracy where powerful people are replaced by uncanny doppelgängers.
Christopher Maudsley – 2025 Pilot Winner (Half-Hour)
The Reiving Lands1558. Thomas, a peaceful cartographer, is sent North with his family to survey the violent borderlands between England and Scotland, aiming to restore his family name and secure their future - only to be drawn ever deeper into a complex web of politics, violent family feuds, corruption and cattle-rustling in the lawless lands of the Border Reivers.
Gregory Abbey – 2025 Pilot Finalist (Half-Hour)
Tread the BoardsTess, an emotionally fragile stage manager for an up-and-coming theater company, trades psychological blows with her mother, Katherine, the company’s brilliant but troubled artistic director as they both struggle to raise the company to new heights in the competitive New York City theater world.
Devin Githara-Pipkin – 2025 Pilot Finalist (Half-Hour)
Movin CompanyA brilliant but aimless first-generation Kenyan American stumbles into a furniture store that's secretly trafficking guns, and he must decide whether to run, inform, or orchestrate.
Niky Pasolini – 2025 Pilot Finalist (Hour)
For to FadeFor To Fade is a love story between two young men who meet at Oxford University, and whose passions clash against the realities of Cold War espionage.
Nehemiah Segure & Bedilu Green – 2025 Pilot Finalist (Hour)
Mr. CowboyAn unlikely friendship forms when the physical manifestation of Death, who has been dressing up as a Cowboy to cope with his midlife crisis, meets a directionless, mentally ill loser from Queens.
Eva Hwang – 2024 Pilot Winner (Hour)
The TongAfong Moy, the first Chinese woman in 1850s America, joins an underground organization of Chinese femmes who empower immigrants by teaching English.
Devi Snively – 2024 Pilot Winner (Half-Hour)
The TempIn the (not necessarily) distant future, a struggling artist escapes her troubles by working as a temp for a human replacement agency, but when she loses her job and her own replacement steals her life, she must fight to get it back.
Yusuf Gad – 2024 Pilot Finalist (Half-Hour)
Saladin QuickAfter dropping out of college, a Muslim stoner with a detective’s sixth sense and his transgressive Jewish best friend juggle dead-end jobs while trying to solve a string of workplace murders without getting fired or losing their high.
Kelsey Harper – 2024 Pilot Finalist (Half-Hour)
The MouseWhen Leah finds a mouse in her room, she befriends it, but when she discovers the mouse belongs to her neighbor and casual(ish) hook-up, Gus, she uncovers his expansive illegal animal smuggling ring. Leah, her chatty roommates, and the mouse are forced to go on the run from Gus and his accomplices. Girls meets Date Night (2010)
Riley Madincea – 2024 Pilot Finalist (Hour)
XanuduLos Angeles, The Great Depression - Two amateur detectives are called to the palatial estate of the richest man alive (now dead) only to find themselves entwined in his mysterious death and the future of his great utopia: Xanadu. Fargo meets Citizen Kane.
Kaytie Nielsen – 2024 Pilot Finalist (Hour)
The Royal AquariumIn Victorian London’s decadent underbelly, at a vast entertainment complex of ill repute, an ensemble cast of women from all walks of life chart deviant paths to make money on their own terms.