December 5, 2025
10 a.m.-1 p.m.
297 Script Readings
Friday, Dec. 5 | 10 a.m.-1
Special Thanks
Barry Blaustein
Russell Boast
Katie Bottinelli
Jill Condon
James Dutcher
Mickey Duzdevich
Stephen Galloway
Montana Golin
Noela Hueso
Susan Isaacs
Susie Landau Finch
Dan Leonard
Abigail Palmer
Samantha Peale
Joseph Rosenberg
Special Thanks
STUDENT LEADS
Mia Garcia-Cobarruvias
Brent Stefani
STUDENT STAFF
Sage Adler
Ariadni Alexandrou Barcelo
Mila Asnis
Melanie Cho
Aine Cruit
Iris Petrillo
CHAPMAN ALUMNA
Naomi Cho
The Actors
Sage Adler
Ayoni Akinwande
Mila Asnis
Nazaneen Colton
Aine Cruit
Henry Fredrick-Gray
Jenna Gomez
Simon Gutierrez
Vipul Kachhwaha
Maxine Louthan
Charlotte Moskowitz
Kelsie Oba-Spence
Iris Petrilo
Gina Phan
Todor Pophristic
Ress Reynard
Luke Richardson
Diego Robinson
Brent Stefani
Paige Steppie
TITLE: Bunker Buddies
WRITER: Zoe Wren Arntsen
CONTACT: Zoewrena@gmail.com
LOGLINE: When a fiery on-and-off couple finds themselves confined to an underground bunker during an apocalyptic event, Peter and Mia must decide whether surviving the apocalypse together is worth their sanity.
CHARACTERS:
MIA (24): Female, confused about what she really wants, over the whole dating scene, bored, and attention-craving. Intense, unpredictable, and extremely avoidant of her own issues and everyone else’s.
PETER (26): Male, overly dramatic and sensitive. Textbook “performative man” and showcases his complexity by playing guitar at women, quoting obscure movies and posting ridiculous TikToks.
JACOB (25): Male, oblivious, obnoxiously “sensitive and empathetic”
The Screenplays
TITLE: Real Cinema
WRITER: William MacLeod
CONTACT: Wdmacleod@gmail.com
LOGLINE: When a B-movie filmmaker gets kidnapped by a film-obsessed serial killer, he must prove that his work has real meaning to save his life.
CHARACTERS:
DEAN: An entitled but skillless writer, still in denial about the quality of his terrible films. He’s always dreamed of being a great writer, but he gave up on art films and now sticks to what he’s good at campy slashers, dumb comedies, and terrible action films. To save his life, he’ll have to justify the artistic merit of his work.
RACHEL: Dean’s date. She’s way out of his league in both looks and personality. She works with sick children and has a selfless demeanor. Dean assumes she doesn’t know anything about film and tries to mansplain his job, but quickly realizes she knows a lot and is less than a fan of his work.
THE CRITIC: The maniac behind it all, this grimy basement dweller has been butchering directors and writers he doesn’t like for some time. Now he has set his sights on Dean; no doubt, he was stalking his obnoxious Instagram posts to hunt him down. But like all critics, he’s obsessed with looking smarter than he actually is. Dean has a chance to use his colossal ego against him to escape.
TITLE: Washed Up
The Screenplays
WRITERS: Erica Ramos & Ty Barros
CONTACT: eriramos@chapman.edu, tbarros@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: After a washed-up sitcom actor gets mistakenly kidnapped, he tries to convince his suggestible kidnapper to capture his much-moresuccessful costar and recreate their past fame.
CHARACTERS:
OSCAR (37): Tunnel-visioned wannabe comedian and has-been actor. Can’t let go of his glory days and would do ANYTHING to get back to them if he were given the chance...
GREG (31): Careless and suggestible kidnapper. Doesn’t want to be bad at his job but just can’t help it. Being easily distractable, he can get on board with just about any plan.
JERRY (39): Rich and sensible. Unlike Oscar, his career skyrocketed and he might still be living in his glory days. Completely moved on from the sitcom that started his fame.
The Screenplays
TITLE: Before You Go
WRITER: Tyler Barros
CONTACT: tbarros@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: When a father dies, his loved ones meet in remembrance, but when it’s his estranged son who is picked for the eulogy, no one knows what might be said.
CHARACTERS:
ANDRE (24): Tightly wound, hella pressed, Andre thrives in a corporate world of organization. Underneath his rehearsed, stoic exterior is a man who has spent his life trying to be “enough” for a man who can’t love out loud. Quick intellect, nervous habits, yet a volcanic honesty.
CHUCKIE (54): Burly, barrel-chested, the uncle who slips you tequila shots at the function. His weathered warmth and sly humor console and antagonize. A wheeze that has been earned by years of laughs. He carries the charm of your favorite beer: cold, dented, and always half-full. Loyal to Andre’s father, no matter what, yet sees Andre as the son he never had.
DEVYN (27): Sharp, elegant, queen bee; she owns every room she walks into. Even in all black, she’s always the moment. The sibling who grew into adulthood with ease; magnetic, emotionally literate, disarmingly intuitive. Beneath this is a fiercely protective older sister who would do anything for Andre.
GREAT AUNTIE CAROLINE (59): An aging tornado of pearls, cashmere, and free-flowing booze. The family’s self-appointed matriarch is equal parts glamour and disaster. She moves through the loss of her nephew like she does life: loudly, lovingly, and under the influence of copious amounts of Xanax.
MA (51): Composed, elegant, and exhausted in a way that only comes from loving two stubborn men for too long. She carries her grief with a careful, deliberate, quiet dignity. She’s warm, yet firm, sentimental, yet unsparing. She’s the emotional backbone of the family, even when she tries to veil any cracks behind her gentle touch and quiet reassurance.
The Screenplays
TITLE: Subject No. 1
WRITER: Paige Bazansky
CONTACT: bazansky@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: When a young woman working at an art gallery starts helping an eccentric artist with an elaborate project, she begins to question her morals and her place in the artist’s plan.
CHARACTERS:
IRIS (20): A struggling artist working as an attendant at a modern art gallery. She is spunky yet reserved, highly intelligent, and skilled. She realizes that she is entering a difficult and competitive field, and she is eager to please. Iris is candid about her pure and genuine love for her line of work, and she is motivated to express herself in any way she can. Feeling disillusioned with the state of the art world, she finds herself increasingly willing to compromise creatively and morally to gain the recognition she deserves.
ARI (24): A bold, unrelenting, talented artist who has amassed a dedicated following and established a notable place in the sphere. He is charismatic and smooth-talking, commanding attention when he enters a room. His controversial performance art captivates audiences. It is apparent that he has rich parents who fund his ambitious projects, and he won’t take no for an answer, probably because he has never been told no before. Ari is manipulative and cunning, and when his newest project is set to be featured in the gallery Iris works at, he takes advantage of Iris’s admiration to get her to do exactly what he wants.
FRANKIE (28): The gallery curator. A well-connected leader with high expectations.
GALLERY ATTENDANT #1
GALLERY ATTENDANT #2
GUEST #1
GUEST #2
TITLE: Stick-Up
WRITER: Maya Grant
The Screenplays
CONTACT: maygrant@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: A bank robber is forced to look inward after the teller recognizes him as her high school ex-boyfriend.
CHARACTERS:
MICHAEL (32): Misguided, insecure. A good kid who got mixed up with the wrong crowd in college, he now robs banks for a living.
KAYLEEN (32): Witty, tough. A bank teller who is too stubborn to confront her own issues.
WOMAN #1
WOMAN #2
MAN #1
BANK GOERS
BANK STAFF
The Screenplays
TITLE: Fallen Snow
WRITERS: Alisha Bartels & Olivia Shull
CONTACT: albartels@chapman.edu, oshull@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: When an ambitious nerd returns home to his small mountain village after hearing the entire population was killed, he runs into his hippie former roommate who drags him into an even bigger, almost yeti-sized, problem.
CHARACTERS:
FELIX (Mid-20s): Felix is ambitious. He wants to make change and go out into the big wide world. He feels frozen in his hometown. He is headstrong and usually takes charge. He takes other people's problems upon himself.
LORENZO (Mid-20s): Lorenzo is very easy going and chill. He has the mindset that everything will always work out. He thinks impulsively and doesn't care what people think of him. He’s not the smartest.
TITLE: Let Me In
The Screenplays
WRITER: Ralph Hutchins
CONTACT: rhutchins@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: As a family sits down for dinner, a sinister unspoken tension rests in the air, forcing a father to confront the truth of a tragic night.
CHARACTERS:
JAMES (Late-40s): He’s clearly lost control of himself, but used to be an overall kind and caring person. James was a husband and a father at one point, but he ultimately lost his family in an accident one night, when he lost control of the car coming back from a friend’s house for dinner.
CHARLOTTE (40s): Charlotte is a kind and caring person who loves her children. She works a job, but she works from home most days and is happily married to her husband, Thomas.
HARRY (Young-looking 18-year-old): Late teenager, son of Charlotte and Thomas, currently enrolled in school
SARAH (Young-looking 18-year-old): Late teenager, daughter of Charlotte and Thomas, currently enrolled in school
THOMAS (40s): He’s the spitting image of what James used to be, he’s a kind and caring man who looks after his family, the qualities that James used to have is exactly what Thomas has: He’s good looking, tall, strong build, a stable job and a loving family.
TITLE: Waiting
The Screenplays
WRITER: Emerald Westlake
CONTACT: ewestlake@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: When a grieving daughter asks a man sitting in the hospital waiting room to supervise her disoriented father, the strangers bond over crossword puzzles and comfort each other in their grief.
CHARACTERS:
NIGEL (55): Anxious and lonely. A cryptic crossword whiz. His father is on the operating table for a risky surgery. He wears rectangular glasses, paint-stained cargo shorts, and a puffer vest over a stretched-out t-shirt.
CLARY (85): Beer-bellied and kind-eyed. Chinos, a knit green jumper, and mismatched socks in boat shoes. He wears a rotten smile and easily cracks himself into a contagious laugh. He suffers from memory loss and his wife has just passed away. Sally’s father.
SALLY (45): Her bright smile and youthful chuckle can’t quite overpower the well of tears in her dark eyes. She feels immense grief for both her mother who has just passed and the fading of her father Clary’s memory. She prioritizes taking care of her dad over herself, but she’s overwhelmed and scared for his future without his wife and without his clear mind.
NURSE (30): A kind nurse who can often get sucked into the science of the job rather than the emotion and people skills that are necessary for it.
TITLE: Speak Easy
The Screenplays
WRITERS: Henry Frederick-Gray & Sage Adler
CONTACT: frederickgray@chapman.edu, sagadler@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: After the outlawing of abortion, the mafia runs its own underground Planned Parenthood, and when the daughter of the politician who outlawed it needs one, the Don sees a prime opportunity for extortion.
CHARACTERS:
JOHNSON (68): A wealthy conservative Christian politician from New Jersey. He attempts to come off as well spoken, but has a temper and an arsenal of cancelable words to shout at anyone who gets on his nerves too much.
BOSCO (68): The Don leading the New Jersey mafia. New York Italian accent, and an energetic voice that travels. Not one to mince words, or to be interrupted.
JESSICA (18): The emo/alternative daughter of Johnson, unafraid to raise her voice to her father, passionate about progressive causes, but unwanting of the spotlight.
DINO (28): A muscular Italian man, Bosco's muscle. Stern and only speaks when necessary.
TITLE: Relájate
The Screenplays
WRITER: Torrey Garvey
CONTACT: togarvey@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: On a failed night of clubbing, a heartbroken American is comforted by a friendly Spaniard, despite their language barrier.
CHARACTERS:
MARTIN (26): An American. High strung, reserved, always worried about something, sensitive.
JOSÉ (30): A Spanish native. Social, easy going, a friend to everyone, only speaks Spanish.
BEN (26): Martin’s friend. Outgoing, clueless, a total “bro.”
LIAM (26): Martin’s friend. Similar to Ben but a little more toned down.
The Screenplays
TITLE: Showbiz, Baby!
WRITER: Kiera Nusbaum
CONTACT: knusbaum@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: A seasoned Broadway performer is robbed of her first (and last) lead role by a terminally ill child.
CHARACTERS:
SASHA (43): A female Broadway performer on the brink of being “washedup,” desperately clinging to the sparkling opportunity of youth through dyed blonde hair and a relentless “diva” personality.
GINGER (12): A female theater kid suffering with a nondescript terminal illness. The most annoying person Sasha has met in her 20 years of show business.
BRADFIELD (22): An up-and-coming female producer only concerned with morality when it saves her some cash.
HOST (40): A male who has enjoyed a long tenure of success due to his unfailing ability to stir the pot when it comes to pop culture incidents.
KYLIE (32): Female, Sasha’s fellow thespian that is far more supportive of the newcoming actress.
ACTOR (30): Another fellow thespian doing their best to keep the show going.
AUDIENCE (25): A common heckler relishing in the commotion onstage.
DOCTOR (45): Sent to deliver some wonderful news live on TV. (Might not really have their PhD.)
The Screenplays
TITLE: Sweet Caroline
WRITERS: Leigh Fitch & Ariadni Alexandrou Barcelo
CONTACT: leightigerfitch@gmail.com, alexandroubarcelo@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: A group of high Harvard floormates devise a plan to get shy guy Bill to win over his crush the trickiest part: she’s surrounded by Secret Service at all times.
CHARACTERS:
BILL (19): Shy, harboring complicated feelings with Harvard, smart
NEIL (19/20): REALLY into astronomy, respectful, always thinking about the consequences
DAMIEN (19/20): Artsy and out of the box, a classic cool guy
CAROLINE (19): Blunt and sassy, JFK’s daughter
The Screenplays
TITLE: Midnight, Almost
WRITER: Paloma Corzo Torres
CONTACT: corzotorres@chapman.edu
LOGLINE: In a lonely bar on Christmas Eve, a disillusioned actress and a father questioning the life he’s built meet by chance and spark a brief connection that neither expected.
CHARACTERS:
CAMILLE (Late-20s): A performer and actress who’s tried both scenes and found herself disillusioned by each. She’s gone too far to turn back now, yet not far enough to feel fulfilled; haunted by the idea that people often quit right before the breakthrough. An only child with an absent father and a distant mother, she’s grown used to selfreliance. Though she has a close-knit circle of friends, she rarely feels truly connected to them. Lately, she feels like she wishes someone could simply tell her what comes next and how to get there.
STEVEN (50): Works in finance a career that’s stable and respectable, but he’s not what he once imagined for himself. Married for 20 years with two kids, a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son, he has everything that should add up to satisfaction: success, family, comfort. Yet beneath it all, he feels quietly detached from his work, from his home, and from the person he thought he’d be by now.
Other Available AP Loglines
TITLE: Bleeding Out
WRITERS: Lily Moskowitz & Charlotte Moskowitz
LOGLINE: A college senior finds confidence and an unlikely friendship in her phlebotomist.
CONTACT: lmoskowitz@chapman.edu, cmoskowitz@chapman.edu
TITLE: Zucchini
WRITER: Charlotte Moskowitz
LOGLINE: On the eve of graduation, two former best friends reckon with lost time over a loaf of zucchini bread
CONTACT: cmoskowitz@chapman.edu
TITLE: The Kids' Table
WRITER: Lily Moskowitz
LOGLINE: When a teenager finally gets to sit at the adults' table on Thanksgiving, it's not what she hoped.
CONTACT: lmoskowitz@chapman.edu
TITLE: Same Coffee, Different Day
WRITER: Ress Reynard
LOGLINE: An overworked college student finds herself in a self-imposed time loop.
CONTACT: treynard@chapman.edu
TITLE: The Big Blind
WRITER: Keili Carriere
LOGLINE: Three troubled brothers play a game of poker for their grandfather’s inheritance.
CONTACT: kcarriere@chapman.edu, (831)515-9614
TITLE: Camp Credit
WRITER: Allison Hunt
LOGLINE: For extra credit, two students grudgingly attend a camping trip with their professor's nerdy son, only to be threatened by a mysterious stalker.
CONTACT: alhunt@chapman.edu
TITLE: Drawn to You
WRITER: Joanna Campbell
LOGLINE: Stuck with her sister's boyfriend for the evening, a withdrawn teen opens up in ways she didn’t expect.
CONTACT: joacampbell@chapman edu
Other Available AP Loglines
TITLE: Lila
WRITER: Joanna Turner
LOGLINE: A young artist confronts her late lover’s husband at the wake.
CONTACT: joaturner@chapman.edu, (425)657-8591
TITLE: Unraveled
WRITER: Amelie Knox
LOGLINE: A broke knitter enters a knitting competition with a big-money prize, only to learn that a character from her past is plotting against her
CONTACT: striegnitzknox@chapman.edu
TITLE: No Tix
WRITER: Alice Radford-Brown
LOGLINE: Working-class teens sneak into the Glastonbury Festival to open their college acceptance letters.
CONTACT: radfordbrown@chapman.edu
TITLE: One Hundred Billion and One
WRITER: Diego Robinson
LOGLINE: Death talks to three people after they pass, learning about their lives and perspectives.
CONTACT: dirobinson@chapman.edu
TITLE: Fist Fight
WRITER: Todor Pophristic
LOGLINE: A wannabe gangster and prostitute butt heads in an empty parking lot.
CONTACT: pophristic@chapman.edu
TITLE: The Breakup
WRITER: Mirabelle Fisher
LOGLINE: On the first night of their couples’ vacation, Laura scrambles to find the right moment to break up with her much more confident girlfriend Phoebe, before she’s stuck with her for an unbearable two weeks.
CONTACT: mirabellefischer@icloud.com
TITLE: Bunny Squats
WRITER: Azul Giordano
LOGLINE: When a devoted boyfriend commits an audacious crime to keep the girl he loves, one wrong move could ruin it all.
CONTACT: agiordano@chapman edu
Other Available AP Loglines
TITLE: Test Me
WRITER: Marissa Johnson
LOGLINE: When a stressed student can't focus during the SATs, she makes it so no one else can, either.
CONTACT: marisjohnson@chapman.edu
TITLE: Muse
WRITER: Calista Labrador
LOGLINE: An obsessed artist experiences all five stages of grief when trying to find inspiration through her loved ones
CONTACT: clabrador@chapman.edu
TITLE: All In
WRITER: Chloe Pausch
LOGLINE: A college girl strives to untangle her situationship's feelings towards her.
CONTACT: pausch@chapman.edu
TITLE: Playing the Game
WRITER: Sage Ptasznik
LOGLINE: When a boyfriend finds his girlfriend in the bathtub with her roommate, he must figure out what is truly going on to decide if they can still make it to Valentine's dinner or if the relationship is over.
CONTACT: sptasznik@chapman.edu
TITLE: Coke and Cola
WRITER: Elizabeth Salvan
LOGLINE: A young man’s new life with his girlfriend exposes an addiction he can no longer ignore.
CONTACT: salvan@chapman.edu
TITLE: The Ick
WRITER: Aleena Sheikh
LOGLINE: An easily icked-out girl tries to find ways to get out of a first date.
CONTACT: alesheikh@chapman.edu
TITLE: Diego
WRITER: Pablo Schettino Gonzalez
LOGLINE: A teenage fisherman must survive cruelty and a grave illness to support his family in 1950s Spain.
CONTACT: pschettinogonzalez@chapman edu
Other Available AP Loglines
TITLE: Time Crunch
WRITER: Zoe Tran
LOGLINE: A teenager, nervous about starting college, dreams that he’s in a musical.
CONTACT: zotran@chapman.edu
TITLE: The Vote
WRITER: Libby Walzer
LOGLINE: Five girls selected by a dystopian council must decide which of them is most worthy of their country's affection and which won't live another day.
CONTACT: walzer@chapman.edu
TITLE: Dirty Dishes
WRITER: Sage Adler
LOGLINE: When an inconsiderate husband makes a small joke about his highmaintenance wife, she snaps and their 20-year marriage is put on the rocks.
CONTACT: sagadler@chapman.edu
TITLE: Splitting Roots
WRITERS: Sage Adler & Henry Frederick-Gray
LOGLINE: A resurrection goes wrong when a guilt-ridden girl brings back her dead twin sister as a vengeful revenant.
CONTACT: sagadler@chapman edu, frederickgray@chapman edu
TITLE: Sycophant
WRITER: Jenna Gomez
LOGLINE: A detective’s interrogation of a murderer leads her to believe that she is dealing with a deeply troubled teen, but the truth is much more complex.
CONTACT: jengomez@chapman.edu
TITLE: Tested Postive
WRITERS: Alisha Bartels & Audrey Sherman
LOGLINE: When a lonely, isolated young woman finds herself with an unexpected pregnancy, she is dragged to a dinner party where she must survive an anonymous stalker blackmailing her for more than one secret.
CONTACT: albartels@chapman.edu, ausherman@chapman.edu
Other Available AP Loglines
TITLE: Sacred Scripts
WRITERS: Jenna Gomez & Aine Cruz
LOGLINE: Tanya, a freshmen college student, goes to interview for her first job at Sacred Sips only to discover the coffee shop is owned by a cult with a leader who is desperate to escape it.
CONTACT: jengomez@chapman.edu, cruit@chapman.edu
TITLE: Ghost Problems
WRITER: Aine Cruit
LOGLINE: Larry, an insecure business man, owns a Halloween store in an abandoned mall with his one employee Linda; only for it to become haunted with a ghost that only has a problem with him on one of their biggest possible sale days.
CONTACT: cruit@chapman.edu
TITLE: This is Awk...
WRITERS: Julia Kirton & Ariadni Alexandrou Barcelo
LOGLINE: A year after a difficult friendship break up, two girls get stuck in an elevator together, forcing them both to confront their feelings and accept the future of their relationship
CONTACT: jkirton@chapman.edu, alexandroubarcelo@chapman.edu
TITLE: The Big Bang
WRITERS: Ayoni Akinwande & Iris Petrillo
LOGLINE: A mysterious diplomat has ulterior, and possibly biblical, motives for hunting a group of angels
CONTACT: akinwande@chapman edu, petrillo@chapman edu
TITLE: Wrath of Salvation
WRITERS: Henry Frederick-Gray
LOGLINE: A priest is shaken to his core when a mysterious man with a brutally violent interpretation of the scripture comes in for confession. CONTACT: frederickgray@chapman.edu