WRITING SAMPLES
SHORT FORM
Disney Channel’s “In the Nook”
GRADUATION
Celebrating the graduation / culmination season of Disney Channel’s target demo, we invited previous In the Nook guest AHMED MUHAMMAD - the high-school-aged founder of Kits Cubed (a service providing science kits to underprivileged Bay Area youth) - back onto the show to deliver a valedictory address to the Class of ‘21.
While the speech was originally drafted as a placeholder for him to replace with his own words, Ahmed - who was accepted to all eleven universities to which he applied - was so pleased with the copy that he not only delivered it verbatim on air, but used sections of it for his graduation address from his high school.
LONG FORM
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Kim Possible
NAKED MOLE RAP REMIX
To celebrate the release of the live-action remake of the classic animated series, the idea of updating a fan-favorite song from the Kim Possible cartoon was the perfect way to connect the new version to the original’s legacy.
Performed by versatile KP stars SEAN GIAMBRONE (Ron Stoppable), ISSAC RYAN BROWN (Wade) and NANCY CARTWRIGHT (Rufus, the Naked Mole Rat), the remix racked up 100,000 plays in its first year on Spotify, and the shot-for-shot remake of the original music video scored another 500,000 views on YouTube.
ARDYs
IMAGE SELL
The greatest challenge in announcing SOFIA CARSON as host of the ARDYs (Radio Disney Music Awards) was that the ARDYs ceremony would be live - while previous' years’ had been live-to-tape - creating the opportunity for an image campaign from whole cloth.
As much as we could have relied on previous years’ footage, it would have undercut the feeling of unpredictability that comes with a live show, which led to this approach where anything can - and does - happen.
THE MOTHERF*CKIN’ RUCKUS
Feature
A fictionalized retelling of the bizarre real-life incident of a wealthy pharma exec purchasing a one-of-a-kind WU-TANG CLAN album, heist epic The Motherf*ckin’ Ruckus (co-written with Joe Tower) garnered industry attention after placing in the Script Pipeline screenwriting competition, leading Pipeline’s founder to remark “No clue how (Gradet and Tower) threw so much into The Motherf*ckin’ Ruckus and still made it work - that alone is remarkable. No exaggeration: future master of screenwriting.”
This prologue sets a fanciful historical context for the wide-ranging adventure to follow.
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HERO CITY P.D.
Pilot
How do the heroic police of a crime-ridden city handle the changing of the guard when a superhero lands on Earth and starts cleaning up the town?
Short version: not well.
For the police of Hudson City’s 37th Precinct, day to day life becomes a chore, with all imaginable crimes put to a stop before they can even get out the door. But for hotshot detective Jake Hudson, it’s even worse - coming from a long line of Hud City cops, it’s his time to prove himself, and now he has to keep up with a literal superbeing.
A superbeing who, Jake discovers, might not actually be that super …
The cold open of the pilot introduces the squad and starts building out the world before everything turns upside down for them.
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THE SMART MONEY
Feature
A Scriptapalooza finalist, crime comedy The Smart Money follows low-level thieves Martin and Frank on their hard-luck quest to level up within a Brooklyn crime organization.
It doesn’t take long for the seemingly can’t-miss job to have them in way over their heads, and that’s before they get involved with Kate, the charming young woman who has no idea these guys are trying to rob her blind …
The story opens at the end, with Martin and Frank seemingly at their lowest, their partnership in shambles, before backtracking to where the trouble began …