Writing
Pilots available upon request (crystallperea@gmail.com)
“Madusa” Half-Hour Supernatural Comedy
On Halloween, a sculptor dressed as Medusa dies and is brought back to life, but now has the powers of Medusa—able to turn anyone to stone if she looks them in the eyes before kissing them.
Video performance of the pilot.
“Zip Your Lips” Half-Hour Comedy
After ignoring her vagina literally talking to her through a puppet of the letter V, an obsessive, social runner is faced with a pelvic health diagnosis, forcing her to slow down, stop running from her relationship issues, and take care of herself to heal and be able to run again.
“Simmer Down” Hour-Long Dramedy
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.
2024 Austin Film Festival Script Competition - Second Rounder
“Not Faire” Half-Hour Adventure Comedy
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 Buddy Comedy
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
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.
“Super Nova” Half-Hour Comedy
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.
“Dick Pickles” Half-Hour Comedy
A woman who chose to take care of her siblings over her sick, controlling father, is guilted into taking over her estranged dad’s spicy pickle business when he is given four more years to live, unaware he’s leaving her with a business built on lies and insurmountable debt as revenge.
“Bad Habits” Hour-Long Dramedy
A rebellious woman in process to becoming a nun takes fakes having mystical visions in order to secretly educate local women to help them take care of themselves and seek interdependence.
“Great Garden” Children’s Animated Comedy
A young girl steals from her wasteful neighbor’s giant vegetable garden in order to provide healthy food for other kids who are on the reduced lunch program like her and aims to change her community.
SPECS:
“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 (Genre 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.