Writing
Available upon request (crystallperea@gmail.com) :
“Super Nova” Half-Hour Comedy (Original Pilot)
After blowing her career years ago and shifting to care for her alcoholic stage mom, a washed up comedy variety actress in her 50s makes one last attempt to revitalize her career with the help of a younger fan.
“Simmer Down” Hour-Long Dramedy (Original Pilot)
A disgraced cooking competition contestant tries to get her chef career back on track by posting cooking videos online, but viewers are more interested in whether she's dating her friend in the videos than the food itself.
“Not Faire” Half-Hour Adventure Comedy (Original Pilot)
At a Renaissance Faire, two queer best friends with opposite beliefs about relationships try to find out about their futures and love lives from a psychic, but are cursed to be stuck in the Renaissance period where they’ll have to learn to let go of their pasts and live in the present.
2022 Austin Film Festival Script Competition - Second Rounder
“Pocket Matey” Half-Hour Adventure Comedy (Original Pilot)
A lady pirate is killed for a crime she committed and cursed to come back to present day, but miniature sized, living in the pocket of a modern woman who’s never explored much of the world outside her home.
8 on The Blacklist
“Hive Mind” Half-Hour Sci-Fi Musical Comedy (Original Pilot)
An ill intentioned, sentient, giant beehive head of hair controls a spineless chump of a human, whose head it’s on. The woman just wants to live an invisible existence as a hairstylist and the beehive hair is an alien who wants world wide recognition and eventually control through music stardom.
“Cary And Pat Are Authentic” (The Other Two Spec Script)
Cary photoshops himself into photos to maintain the illusion that he’s still cast in Night Nurse. Brooke wants to steer Pat’s show in a more authentic direction by stealing other talk show segments. Streeter catches wind of Cary’s photoshopped photos and wants in too.
“Little Deborah” (Hacks Spec Script)
Ava makes a post on social media that spreads into a rumor that Deborah has died. Deborah wants to find out what her contemporaries really feel about her and her impact on the comedy world, which causes Ava to confront the anger of her grief over her dad’s death.
“Not In the Mood” (Pen15 Spec Script)
Maya and Anna walk in on Maya’s parents having sex. Gabe tries to hide his feelings for Sam during a kickball game.
2021 Austin Film Festival Script Competition - Second Rounder
Short Films:
Half Life (Short Film Script)
A woman returns to an abandoned beach side bath to see if a creature living beneath the murky water will leave her world and fears behind to join her.