About Me
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Owner of scriptstories.com since 2007. Professional Screenwriter since 1994. Professional Ghostwriter since 2007. Experienced in Comedy, Family, Action/Adventure, Suspense, Fantasy and other feature films. I specialize in both story and character development and solid story structure. I am currently working on my first historical fiction novel.
My goal is to help non-writers develop story ideas into feature screenplays and TV Series. I have over twenty years of screenwriting experience and have written over fifty feature scripts. I previously lived in Los Angeles and New York City and am currently residing in the Boston area where I am from.
Education
Columbia University
Graduate School of Arts, NYC
Majored in Screenwriting (3-yr program)
MFA - Honors in Narrative Film & Screenwriting
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
BA - Narrative Film, Screenwriting & Playwriting
Personal Screenplay Projects
THE GENERAL'S WIFE - Historical Drama/Thriller
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis & Charles Gibb, PhD
A German youth 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 in order 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he has to turn into a ‘nice’ boy by Christmas morn or else force his elves to stop making all their most famous yet ‘outdated’ classical Christmas toys.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 the programs 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 hard driven businesswoman who learns through her therapist that she has developed a pattern of dating men who all have serious ‘mother issues’ she vows to never 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 her discovers that he is NYC’s the most sought-after sperm donor as well as in love with a new unhappily married pregnant neighbor who might just be now 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 make 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-after’s 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 Hallows Eve a pre-teen boy buys a used board game similar to Dungeon’s and Dragon’s 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 find his baby brother missing and discovers that he is now inside the medieval game where the evil Wizard Zorak kills young children in order 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 transforms 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.
Personal Screenplay Projects
THE GENERAL'S WIFE - Historical Drama/Thriller
Original Screenplay by Suzanne E. Gillis & Charles Gibb, PhD
A German youth 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 in order 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 the programs 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 hard driven businesswoman who learns through her therapist that she has developed a pattern of dating men who all have serious ‘mother issues’ she vows to never 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 her discovers that he is NYC’s the most sought-after sperm donor as well as in love with a new unhappily married pregnant neighbor who might just be now 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 make 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-after’s 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 Hallows Eve a pre-teen boy buys a used board game similar to Dungeon’s and Dragon’s 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 find his baby brother missing and discovers that he is now inside the medieval game where the evil Wizard Zorak kills young children in order 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 transforms 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.