JANYCE LAPORE SCREENWRITER/OFF OFF BROADWAY PLAYWRIGHT [email protected] 412-741-8415
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PLAYWRIGHT, published by Dramatic Publishing in English, Dutch and forthcoming, German. My plays have been produced all over the world, as well as Off Off Broadway.
SCREENWRITER My screenplays have garnered several major film festival awards. Presently, two of my scripts are in negotiations to be made into a feature films, and I have just completed filming my own short , “The Director.”
Management: T.J. Mancini - Crossroads Entertainment, West Hollywood, CA
NOMINATION: Carbonell Award for “Best Play of the year.”
SCREENWRITER: My scripts “Screaming My Heart Out”, “Poppytown”, “10 Minutes From Paradise”, “A Moment Of Indifference” and my short, “The Director” have all won major film festival awards. My newest script “Circle Of Six’ was completed in March, 2011. (See “Circle of Six” for awards) . MAJOR SCREENPLAY AWARDS 2011 “Best Screenplay” - California Independent Fim Festival 2011 “Best Screenplay” - Metropolitan Film Festival, New York City 2011 “Award of Excellence- NYLA - New York/Los Angeles International Film Festival 2011 “Choice Award - Best Screenplay” HITFlics Award - Action On Film International Film Festival 2010 Los Angeles Movie Awards - “The Award Of Excellence” 2010 New York City Acefest Award - “Best Screenplay.” 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival - “Best Suspense/Thriller” 2010 Independent Film Festival - “Best Script” 2009 Dino DeLaurentiis Award, - “Cinema City Film Festival, “Best Script” 2009 Hollywood Scriptwriting - “ Award for the Written Word”, LA 2008 “The Arthur Rosenfeld Award for Excellence in Writing and the Ability to Tell an Outstanding Story” at the Action on Film International Film Festival in Los Angeles.
(Please see all nominations and awards attached to each script)
SCREENWRITER.
10 MINUTES FROM PARADISE 2011 “Award of Excellence- NYLA - New York/Los Angeles International Film Festival “Award of Excellence”- Los Angeles Movie Awards “Best Script” - Independent Film Festival “Best Screenplay” - New York City Acefest “Best Suspense/Thriller”- Los Angeles Film Festival “Top Award” - WorldFest Screenplay Competition “Best Script” - Los Angeles Cinema Film Festival “Finalist” - 2011 Sacramento Film Festival (TBA) “Official Selection”- Action on Film International Film Festival 2011 “Diamond Award” - California Film Awards “Top Ten”- Final Draft Screenplay Competition “Finalist”- Maui Film Festival “Best Screenplay”- Independent Film Festival Awards “Best Screenplay”- Hollywood Script Writing Awards “Top Ten”- Texas Film Festival “Top Twenty”- Rhode Island Film Festival “Best Final Scenes in a Screenplay”- Feeding Frenzy “Best Drama”- Quantum Quest Film Competition “Top Ten”- New Century Writer Awards “Grand Finalist”- BDR Radmin Films Awards “Best Script:- Script Writers Magazine “Second Place”- 2011 Buffalo/Niagra Film Festival 2011 “Honorable Mention” Best Script” Los Angeles New Wave Film Festival “Top Twenty”- Rhode Island Film Festival
SCREAMING MY HEART OUT “Top Three” - 2011 Williamsburg Film Festival “Best Screenplay” Nomination - DeLaurentiis Cinema City Film Festival (TBA) “Official Selection”- Action on Film International Film Festival, “Best Screenplay”& “Best Scene”- Hollywood Scriptwriting Award for the Written Word “Official Selection”- Hoboken Film Festival “Best Screenplay”- Female Eye Film Festival, 2009 Toronto, Canada “Gold Award” - 2011 California Film Awards “Silver Drama Award”- International PAGE Screenplay Awards “Best Screenplay”- Hollywood Script Writing Awards “Finalist”- Venice Film Festal “Top Ten” - Cynosure Screenplay Competition “Top Ten”- New Century Writer Awards Coppola sponsored, New Century Writer Reading Series (Studio Reading, Off Off Broadway) “Top Ten”- Moondance Film Festival “Top Five”- Women’s Image Awards “Top Ten” - Canada’s Red Ink Awards
POPPYTOWN “Finalist”- Writers Network “Best New Film Noir”- Fade In Magazine “Finalist”- Writers & Artist Award “Official Selection”- Action on Film International Film Festival
A MOMENT OF INDIFFERENCE “Top Ten” - 2010 Canada’s Red Ink Film Festival “Official Selection”- 2011, Beverly Hills Film Festival
CIRCLE OF SIX - Just completed. 2011 California Independent Film Festival - “Best Screenplay” 2011 Toronto International Film and Video Festival - Nominated “Best Script” (TBA) 2011 Metropolitan Film Festival - New York - “Best screenplay” 2011 “Choice Award - Best Screenplay” HITFlics Award - Action On Film International Film Festival 2011 LA Movie Awards, Honorable Mention” 2011 Writer’s Place Screenplay Competition, “Top Twenty Finalist (TBA) 2011 Beverly Hills Film Festival, "Official Selection" 2011 Indie Gathering Film Festival, "Second Place" 2011 Los Angeles Cinema Festival - Hollywood, “ Award of Merit”
FILMS A short, “The Director”, filming completed. The script was awarded: 2010 “Award of Merit”- Los Angeles Cinema Film Festival of Hollywood 2010 “Best Dramatic Scenes”- Action on Film International Film Festival 2010“Official Selection -, Action on Film International Film Festival
PLAYWRIGHT: Five New York Credits
DOLORES RAIN Florida Council of the Arts Award
PRODUCTIONS Acme Acting Company Miami, Florida Organic Theatre Chicago, Illinois Cleveland Public Theatre Cleveland, Ohio
A CURSE OF ANGELS New Dramatist Award New York, New York
FERRIS WHEEL AWARDS Carbonell Nomination: Best Play of 1998 Florida Council of the Arts Award Winner, Chicago International Play Award, Center Theatre Top Ten, New Century Writer Awards / Francis Ford Coppola reading, New York
PRODUCTIONS FERRIS WHEEL Canon Theatre Los Angeles, California Chicago Dramatist Chicago, Illinois Florida Shakespeare Theatre Miami, Florida Off Off Broadway, Common Basis Theatre New York, New York Off Off Broadway, Flipside Theatre New York, New York Off Off Broadway, 13th. Street Rep New York, New York Off Off Broadway, Fireside Theatre New York, New York
PUBLICATIONS Ferris Wheel Dramatic Publishing Chicago, Illinois Translated into Dutch Uitgeverrij Vink Holland
DERRINGER Developed Off Broadway, 13th. Street Rep New York, New York
NOVEL WRITING “Cruel Poetry” by Vicki Hendricks. Serpent’s Tale, London England. Published, 2007 Assisted and advised well known novelist, Vicki Hendricks, with character and plot development with her latest novel “Cruel Poetry”.
LATEST SCREENPLAY - CIRCLE OF SIX, Completed March/April 2011
“Circle Of Six” A brilliant Harvard Philosophy professor witnesses a suicide in his classroom that sends him to the darkest side of Las Vegas nightlife, where he becomes involved in a horrific crime that devastates the family of people he lives with in a small trailer court just behind the glaring lights of the Las Vegas Strip.
Presently all screenplays are being reviewed by several different studios.