The Line Up
Sponsored by Heyman Talent Agency, Cindependent hosts six live screenplay readings utilizing local actors. The Screenplay Speakeasy is an incredible opportunity to hear new work with cutting edge talent right here in Ohio.
An alphabetical list of our 2023 Official Selections is below.
A Grave Mistake
In 1850's Georgia, dark secrets come to light when a man who was accidentally buried alive is saved by an amateur grave robber.
Reading: Saturday, 3pm.
http://cartertayler.com
Fibby
A woman with a medical condition finds herself face to face with the condition--a massive growth that has an appetite for men. It's loosely based on a true story.
Reading: Saturday, 10am.
http://garinpirnia.com
Hazel the Viking
A young woman discovers that the Viking genes she inherited give her amazing powers in any confrontation, but threaten her ability to pursue a normal career and family life.
Reading: Saturday, 10am.
Heart String Theory
A down-on-his-luck science fiction author writing an advice column under a female pseudonym falls in love with a woman from the future desperately looking for help to return to her own time and save her son.
Reading: Saturday, 10am.
Honed
An unexpected loss forces a military widow who took over her husband's knifemaking business to re-examine her grief.
Reading: Saturday, 10am.
Is This Thing On?
A failed comic struggles to revive his dead end career by going on the funeral circuit.
Reading: Friday, 1pm.
La Casita
Xiomara is a Puerto Rican Child Protective Services agent from East Harlem, with a massive secret: she has superhuman powers. She also has been chosen by a powerful revolutionary to be the last stand in an upcoming war where her neighborhood is caught in the crosshairs.
Reading: Saturday, 3pm.
http://boilingriverproductions.com
Lost Equinox
When a search party for a missing girl draws an unexpected visitor looking to cover her tracks, she must look to a compassionate park ranger for an escape.
Reading: Friday, 1pm.
http://www.hytendavidson.com
Medicine Show Blues
When a Depression-era traveling medicine show in the Mississippi Delta starts to fall apart, its con-man impresario bargains with the devil to make the show's snake oil do what it claims on the label.
Reading: Friday, 10am.
Nixin’ Nixon
Jane, a college student, comes home with exciting news: her longtime crush is coming over. Tonight. Her one problem? Her roommate Maggie's preferred bathroom decor. Will Jane convince Maggie to redecorate before it's too late?Adapted from the play by the same name.
Reading: Friday, 10am.
Parry
After surviving an ectopic pregnancy, Parry must find her way home by navigating the minefield of familial expectations and personal loss.
Reading: Friday, 3pm.
People in a Box
Artists and performers are trapped inside a mysterious theater where they are forced to perform in order to survive.
Reading: Saturday, 1pm.
Pop!
Sammy's Mom takes helicopter parenting to a whole new level in order to protect him.
Reading: Friday, 10am.
https://www.primitiveplanet.com
Review
In a video message, a social media acolyte invites other women to have sex with her boyfriend, but only if they film their review after. A game of power dynamics intertwines the lives of several amused participants, then the videos leak and those lives are forever changed, destroyed, or ended.
Reading: Saturday, 3pm.
http://imdb.me/zarantonello
Rhino Rickey’s Fantastical BowlaRama
Bert has planned the perfect celebration for his daughter Mabel. Or has he?
Reading: Saturday, 10am.
Room Service
A romantic engagement celebration in a luxurious hotel takes a disturbing turn when a terrified fiancée kills her husband-to-be.
Reading: Saturday, 1pm.
Stranded
Stranded is a suspense drama in which five tourists on a trip to see the 14-highest mountains in the world get stranded and struggle to survive, as it becomes freezing cold and their food, water, and oxygen runs out. Then, death begins striking everyone, starting with the pilot, and can anyone survive, and will anyone find and rescue them?
Reading: Friday, 3pm.
http://www.changemakersproductionsfilms.com
The Deal
Reading: Friday, 3pm.
The Pickleball Killer
Brigg, an aging pickleball sensation, with supernatural speed, and dark mysterious origin, becomes the target of the Cartel after he inadvertently rescues a young trafficked girl from their clutches. In an attempt to give Amy a better life, he becomes her father figure and she his daughter. The two develop a touching relationship that turns dangerous when they rescue her sister and other enslaved girls. The cops are closing in, but the cartel beats them and reclaims the girls. Brigg must use his special abilities and all his resources in a suicidal mission to free the girls.
Reading: Friday, 10am.
http://www.pickleballkiller.com
The Roar
With the help of a young boy, Patricio has come to slay a monster that has been terrorizing him for decades.
Reading: Saturday, 1pm.
Tony’s Swing
An autistic young man is forced to never return to the park again and his mother has to figure out a solution.
Reading: Friday, 1pm.
Enter the Genesis
Caleb Sears' journey of joining and escaping the cult called "The Genesis".
Reading: Friday, 10am.
Abyssus
Following a blowout, an oil rig undergoing a safety inspection is attacked by a sea monster.
Reading: Saturday, 3pm.
http://cartertayler.com
An Unwelcomed Time
Tara's childhood memories have been blocked away, letting her lead a somewhat normal life. Until that one thing brings it all back.
Reading: Saturday, 1pm.
Badger
One year after the self-inflicted destruction of her life-long best friendship, a desperately lonely, late-20s Chicago transplant attempts to forcibly recreate the magic of girlhood friendships by starting an adult scouting troop.
Reading: Friday, 10am.
Boneyfiddle
After being sent to live with a grandmother she barely knows, an eleven-year-old discovers that her new town has long forgotten secrets behind its worn-down storefronts, waiting to be discovered.
Reading: Friday, 1pm.
http://cartertayler.com
Buckhorn Academy
Two siblings get accepted to a prestigious boarding school deep in the Appalachian mountains, only to realize upon arrival that it is actually a school for cryptids.
Reading: Saturday, 1pm.
http://cartertayler.com
Clowntown Confidential
A deadbeat hotel detective finds himself up to his neck in funny business when he witnesses a faked murder at the second-largest clown convention in the southwestern United States.
Reading: Saturday, 1pm.
Darling, It’s Better
When Meredith returns to the rundown Atlantic City hotel she once called home she is visited by the ghost of her dead mother reincarnated as a mermaid.
Reading: Friday, 3pm.
Demon
Existentialism and a cigarette or two.
Reading: Saturday, 10am.