Owner of scriptstories.com since 2007 and professional screenwriter since 1994. Expert in both story and character development, I have completed over 50 screenplays in all genres. My main talent is action, family and holiday films with suspense, action and comedy. I have just completed my first historical fiction family saga novel based on my father's Canadian immigrant family from 1910-1980s (mapleavenuenovel.com) which will soon be published.
My goal is to help clients achieve their writing goals in feature screenplays and in the development of new TV series. I have over twenty years of writing experience in feature scripts, TV series and novel writing. I previously lived in Los Angeles and New York City for many years but am currently residing in the Boston area where I grew up.
Columbia University
Graduate School of Arts, NYC
MFA in Screenwriting (3-yr program)
Honors in Narrative Film & Screenwriting
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
BA in Narrative Film & Playwriting
THE GENERAL'S WIFE - Historical Drama/Thriller
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis & Charles Gibb, PhD
A German youth's loyalties are suddenly tested when he discovers that his American-born mother is a Resistance spy working against his father, who is a Nazi General for the Third Reich.
THE NAUGHTY BOY - Holiday/Fantasy/Action Adventure
Original Screenplay by Suzanne Gillis & Kyle Watson
When the demand for the new electronic toys threatens to shut down Christmas as we know it, Santa Claus must do something drastic to prove that he still has what it takes to keep Christmas going and his thousands of ‘happy’ elves gainfully employed. He soon finds himself assigned to help a particularly naughty ‘tech-addicted’ boy whom he has to turn into a ‘nice’ boy by Christmas morn or else force his elves to stop making all their most famous yet ‘outdated’ classical Christmas toys.
DOG GONE DUBIE - Family/Comedy/Romance
Original Screenplay by Suzanne Gillis & Craig Frankel
When an overweight Brooklyn dishwasher and recent loser of the Annual Coney Island Hotdog Eating Contest is forced to join a weight loss program by his overbearing mother, he soon finds himself falling in love with the program leader, a beautiful young chemist and dietician from the Midwest who has sworn to cure him of not only his food-fetish about ‘slam dogs’ but also his dream of owning a gourmet hotdog stand in Central Park.
THE MOTHER LOAD - Family/Comedy/Romance
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis
When a no-nonsense driven businesswoman learns through her therapist that she has developed a pattern of dating men who all have serious ‘mother issues’, she vows never to date another man again unless she can meet his mother first and decern that their relationship is both ‘normal’ and healthy. Soon afterwards, she finds herself agreeing to date a fellow co-worker who has long sought after her, who gladly introduces her to his ‘perfect mother’ only to discover after their engaged that this woman is not only NOT his ‘real’ biological mother but is also a hired actress because his ‘real mother’ is a total nightmare.
MR. ANONYMOUS - Romance/Quirky/Comedy
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis
A romantically challenged mortician who longs for a family of his own suddenly finds himself a part-time position as a sperm donor in NYC. Soon after, she discovers that he is NYC’s most sought-after sperm donor and in love with a new unhappily married pregnant neighbor who might just be carrying ‘one of his own.’
UNDATABLE YOU - Comedy/Romance
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis
When a newly divorced owner of a famous Boston dating service makes a public announcement that she can make anyone in the city of Boston completely ‘dateable’, she is suddenly confronted by her most ‘undatable’ client of all – a particularly unruly and unkempt man who insists she makes good on her public promise or else close her business.
CUPID’S DAY OFF - Fantasy/Broad Comedy/Romance
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis
When New York’s most beloved Cherub is forced to take Valentine’s Day off as punishment for making too many ‘happily-ever-afters in New York’s Central Park, the Cherub decides to get even with his superiors by spending the day experiencing what all this human love business is all about ‘first hand’ while ignoring the fact that human love is strictly forbidden from all Cherubs.
IN-BETWEEN - Fantasy/Black Comedy/Drama
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis
When a seventeen-year-old virgin finds himself suddenly dead and assigned to a particularly obnoxious and callous Arch Angel ‘from hell’ whose sexual past is the stuff he always dreamed of – the teenager suddenly refuses to enter the afterlife until he can have sex with a particular ‘living female’ who shares both a disturbing and unorthodox connection to the Arch Angel’s past.
THE GAMEKEEPER - Family/Action Adventure/Fantasy
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis
On Halloween Eve, a pre-teen boy buys a used board game similar to Dungeons and Dragons from a strange neighbor who is having a yard sale. That night the boy is forced to stay home and babysit his younger brother while his parents go to a party. While playing the game with his two friends, he finds his baby brother missing and discovers he is now inside the medieval game where the evil Wizard Zorak kills young children to maintain his magical powers.
UNDER MY SKIN - Comedy/Romance
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis
A thrice-divorced Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon who is desperate to revive his failing medical career and hang onto his famous clients is talked into transforming a hopelessly romantic unattractive male chef and lounge singer into a female goddess only to find himself months later suddenly becoming attracted to his ‘newest’ patient.
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