Hi, I’m Annie.
I write character-driven stories grounded in reality that explore themes of personal reinvention, resilience, and redemption.
My work blends emotional depth with humor and wit to showcase characters who learn to accept themselves and discover possibility in unexpected places.
I’ve completed feature-length drama and comedy scripts and two television pilots. Please email me for synopses, decks, or full scripts for the below log lines.
FEATURES
DRAMA
THE HIGHWAYMAN - In this imagined origin story of Alfred Noyes' iconic poem, three childhood friends find their lives spiraling into turmoil as personal hardship, forbidden love, desperate choices, and jealous revenge set them on a tragic course that will end in betrayal and death on a moonlit road.
THESE TEN YEARS - The true story of a coke-dealin' hustler at the end of his rope who impulsively moves to Taiwan. He spends the next decade overcoming his drug-entangled past while finding purpose, redemption, and love as he explores Southeast Asia.
HOME COMING - Rendered disabled in a freak accident, a steely doctor is forced to face the demons of her past when she must surrender her pursuit of international relief work and return home to the rural Shenandoah Valley to be cared for by her religious parents.
COMEDY
AMERICA, I HAVE A LIFE! - After an unsuccessful decade trying to prove her chops on Broadway, a melodramatic substitute teacher attempts to create a reality television show about her life to prove she’s happy being a single thirty-something with an atypical life path.
An homage to the early aughts that pays tribute to a time not very long ago when the way we communicated was rapidly changing - but people still left voicemails, used handheld video cameras, and there were only five(ish) reality shows. But perhaps the greatest difference? It was still a time when not just anyone could be a star…or at least not everyone thought they could be!
TV PILOTS
LOVE ME TENDER - An episodic series co-created and written with Alice L. Walker - From Elvis’s arms to the front line of 1960s counterculture, a young woman journeys from dissatisfied teenage naivety to aspiring reporter and exposes the political power chords hidden in the soundtrack of the Swingin’ Sixties. Put on assignment following musicians' rise to fame, she finds her voice through the lens of musical activism as a “World Beat Journalist.”
LAND O’ PLENTY - A single-camera half-hour comedy - A retired military colonel fulfills his estranged hippie brother’s dying wish and takes over his failing health food store in order to support the family he never knew he had. His conventional ways of thinking constantly clash with his high vibes family, granola store manager, woo woo staff and the boho beach town that is now, improbably, his home.