“THE SUNBIRD”
“THE SCANDALMAKERS”
“LORD OF THE SMOKIES”
“ANGEL OF HENRY STREET” (The Lillian Wald Story)
“THE WETBACK”
“TRUCK STOP”
“THE TOMATO LADY” (SHORT SCREENPLAY)
“A CUBAN STORY”
“FAREWELL TO THE LAST DRIVE-IN” (With Jackie DeShannon)
“MIDWESTERN SKIES” (With Jackie DeShannon)
Universal Studios “CLIFFHANGERS” NBC Series:
“DEMONS OF THE DARK”
“SEPULCHRE OF THE UNDEAD”
“SEALED IN BLOOD”
“PLEAS OF THE DAMNED”
NBC SPECIAL “DRACULA ‘79”
MOWs:
“THE WORLD OF DRACULA”
“THE LOVES OF DRACULA”
CBS Emmy-winning Children’s Series “DUSTY’S TREEHOUSE”
“THE HOUSE THAT SCOOTER BUILT” EPISODE
“MYTHODRAMA: THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN THOUGHT THROUGH THEATER"
“THE WORLD THROUGH HER HANDS" (About Sculptor Shirley H. Lichtman)
“JOURNEY TO THE SMOKIES"
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“THE SUNBIRD” supernatural mystery
An American writer goes in search of her missing boyfriend last seen at an isolated Mexican resort located in a tropical bird sanctuary situated beneath the mile high City of the Dead. Little does she know that she, too, will fall under the ancient Zapotec spell in which humans are given their heart’s desire in exchange for their transfiguration into exotic birds. (Semifinalist Scriptapalooza Contest)
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“THE SCANDALMAKERS”
During the summer of 1816, while residing in a villa in Geneva, Switzerland with her lover [PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY], her step-sister CLAIRE and her lover [LORD BYRON] and his lover-personal physician [JOHN POLIDORI], 20 year-old MARY GODWIN enters into a bet to see who can craft the scariest story. Mary discovers that she has the ability to exorcise the monster within herself via the creation of her original FRANKENSTEIN story.
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“LORD OF THE SMOKIES”
The Phaedra/Hippolytus myth set in the Smokey Mountains of 1910. Moonshiner THADEUS STEED takes himself a young bride [FATE O’DARE] , but shortly after his wedding, he is forced to flee from the revenuers. In his absence, his younger brother HYRAM falls in love with FATE.
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“ANGEL OF HENRY STREET” (The Lillian Wald Story)
Lillian Wald, born into an affluent family, leaves comfort behind to live and to work in New York City’s Lower East Side of the 1890s, where 200,000 immigrants were crammed into 504 acres of tenement houses and factories. Lillian would establish The Henry Street Settlement House, The Visiting Nurses Association, Big Brothers (with Teddy Roosevelt), the first public playgrounds, among many other innovations benefiting those most in need. She would be forced to choose between marriage and her career.
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“THE WETBACK”
Set in San Ysidro, CA in 1976, this juvenile hearing for a Mexican illegal farm worker, presents insights into the ongoing problems confronting these isolated individuals in American society.
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“TRUCK STOP”
In Hattiesburg, Mississippi of 1980, Eartha’s Truck Stop Diner, where truckers have all of their needs met, is an oasis in the middle of Klan country. The widow Eartha, who is black and had been married to a white trucker, has been harboring her fugitive son in her upstairs room hoping to reach the statute of limitations for his crime. Unfortunately, things do not go according to her plans.
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“THE TOMATO LADY”
Based on a short story by Rose Hamilton-Gottlieb. In her small Iowa town, Erline Foster is disgraced by her teenage pregnancy and the breakup of her family. At age 30, and destitute , she returns home to confront her past and to forge for herself a new and truer identity. (Finalist TWP Contest Short Screenplay category)
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“A CUBAN STORY”
Based on co-writer Marcia Del Mar’s biographical novel about her family’s difficult escape from Castro’s Cuba of the 1960s, and the obstacles they encountered as immigrants trying to eke out new lives for themselves in the USA.
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SCREENPLAYS WITH JACKIE DESHANNON
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“FAREWELL TO THE LAST DRIVE-IN”
In 1980s Santee, CA the drive-in movie theatre is the center of the community. Everything is unfolding on the stage beneath the drive-in’s big screen where the high school principal will present the awards and scholarships between the drive-in’s double-features. Prom Queen Greer’s boyfriend wants her to marry him and help him to run the drive-in theater he loves. Greer is torn between her boyfriend’s offer and the college scholarship she’s just been awarded.
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“MIDWESTERN SKIES”
NIKKI JOHNSON travels to New York City in the early 1990s to pursue her dream of becoming a novelist. She falls for her room-mate’s boyfriend [JAKE ROTHMAN] and finds herself having to choose between a career and a personal relationship. (Finalist Forest Roberts Theatre Contest)
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Universal Studios “CLIFFHANGERS” NBC Series
MODERN DRACULA EPISODES BY MYLA LICHTMAN-FIELDS
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"SEALED IN BLOOD"
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NBC SPECIAL “DRACULA ‘79”
MOWs
CBS Emmy-winning Children’s Series “DUSTY’S TREEHOUSE”
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“THE HOUSE THAT SCOOTER BUILT” EPISODE
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“MYTHODRAMA: THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN THOUGHT THROUGH THEATER”
Chronicles the 7 Ages of Theater showing how theater has contributed to the evolution of human thought by giving voice to those things that the audience feels but cannot yet articulate at the conscious level.
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