TELEVISION
The plays got me into TV. The hardware is all mine by the way. I won it working as a scriptwriter, editor, breakdown writer, headwriter and story consultant on half a dozen soaps. Put my kid through school and me through film school and was a lot of fun. Still writing for TV but now it's my stuff.
12
12 is a drama series about recovery from addiction - each episode inspired by one of the twelve steps. The episodes connect a la “La Ronde” with a minor character in the first episode starring in the second, a minor character in the second episode starring in the third etc. until we come full circle in episode twelve. The series is set in the New York metropolitan area – in urban slums and million dollar beach fronts, in bodegas and ad agencies - and focuses on people of different ages, classes, sexual orientations and ethnicities. Script on request.
Someone Wonderful
SOMEONE WONDERFUL This one-hour, contemporary, drama series set in NYC looks at immigration through the lives of immigrant nannies and the mothers who hire them.
It’s Upstairs Downstairs but with a modern twist: the mothers who need “someone wonderful” to look after the kids, are only a few generations removed from their own immigrant forebears. And they aren’t ladies who lunch: they’re heading off to work as doctors, lawyers, therapists – their lives and livelihoods dependent on their nannies. Meanwhile our nannies battle homesickness, poverty, and instability, and are vulnerable to coyotes, jealous rivals, unscrupulous clients, and ICE.
As these women grow closer, their dramatic stories take us on an incredible ride, while normalizing the lives of immigrants today.
