​ATROPOS (experimental puppet film)

LOGLINE: A marionette violinist struggles to continue performing when his strings begin to snap -- both on his instrument and on his body.

Recipient of The Longhorns Creators Foundation grant

BITERS (experimental horror)

LOGLINE: When a reckless surfer takes to the beach after Hurricane Harvey, she comes home with more than she expected... and finds herself infected with a dangerous parasite.

Co-written and directed by Matt Sherwood

​Official Selection: SXSW Film Festival,  ​Palm Springs International Film Festival, Carrboro Film Festival, Houston Horror Film Festival, South Texas Underground Film Festival

CHARETTE (experimental drama)

LOGLINE: An architecture grad student living abroad searches for her Turkish family home in her dreams... but can she ever really go back?

Co-written and directed by Sara Pinar Onder

Official Selection: SXSW Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Istanbul Film Festival

CUTOUT (experimental drama)

LOGLINE: An overworked artist grapples with how her relationship with her work has been commodified through capitalism. 

​Co-written and directed by Cris Magliozzi

​Official Selection: LA Student Film Festival

GODHEAD (drama)

LOGLINE: When a determined mother retrieves her son from a mysterious cult, she's confronted with an even more frightening reality -- he may not want to be saved.

Co-written and directed by Andrew Neylon​

THE NOSE (experimental comedy)

​LOGLINE: Inspired by Nicolai Gogol's short story, "The Nose" follows the peregrinations of a part who has left the whole to begin its own subversive narrative.

Recipient of The Center for Puppetry Arts' Xperimental Puppetry Theater grant

A PUG & WOLF CHRISTMAS (comedy)

​LOGLINE: Two misfit creatures search of love and a relief from loneliness on Christmas Eve.

Story by Davey Morrison & Bianca Dillard

Recipient of The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists grant

TEXAS MERMAID MOVIE (drama)

LOGLINE: After her mother's death, a young girl reconnects with her father and seeks consolation from a mysterious mermaid.

Co-written and directed by John David Devergiliis

Official Selection: El Paso Film Festival, Roosevelt Island Film Festival, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Block Island Film Festival

TV/SERIES

All scripts available upon request.

SHORT FILMS

FEATURES

​​​​​Davey MORRISON

ADAM & EVE (romantic comedy TV/web series; Avrec Art House/Hewes Pictures)

LOGLINE: He's the only man on Earth. And she's just not that into him.

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MOSKOWITZ & MOSKOWITZ (and also Doris) (animated TV comedy pilot)

​A dimwitted paranormal private investigator and his brilliant secretary solve a series of absurd metaphysical crimes sweeping across Cityopolis.

SELF ISOLATION (experimental web series)

LOGLINE: The crushing horror and unanticipated hilarity of realizing you are alone, and you are trapped.

Produced by a one-man cast and crew during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF POE & PRICE (animated TV comedy pilot)

​LOGLINE: When eccentric author Edgar Allan Poe unexpectedly finds himself hurtled into the 1970s, he’ll have to team up with washed-up actor Vincent Price to find his way back to his own time -- solving a series of grisly murders inspired by his own writing in the process.

REMEDIAL ALGEBRA: Episode 2 (TV/web series episode; Culture Nine Productions)

LOGLINE: A pen that brings whatever it draws to life helps whisk a couple of inattentive students out of their boring algebra class.

TRANQUILITY: "JAMIE" (TV episode; The University of Texas at Austin)

​LOGLINE: A down-on-his-luck musician experiences incredible success after a wish is granted from a penny in a fountain... the only problem is, it wasn't his wish.

WRITERS' BLOCK: "EUGENIE" (romantic comedy TV episode; BYUtv)

LOGLINE: When a 19th century French novelist finds himself falling for his heroine, he's forced to choose whether to hold on to his creation or let her live her own life.

​​ANY OTHER NAME (comedy-drama)
LOGLINE: After their mother‘s death, a pair of identical twins realize they’ve been going by the wrong names their entire lives -- and, as they try to solve the mystery of who is really who, they undergo a shared identity crisis that extends well beyond their names.

BEN & THE ART OF REGRET (horror-comedy)

LOGLINE: Ben is depressed. His girlfriend dumped him and now he feels like he sees her everywhere he goes...which turns out to be true. Ben has somehow been inadvertently cloning his ex with his mind, and, when the clones turn bad, he'll have to find a way to get rid of them -- or die trying.

AWARDS: Academy Nicholl semifinalist

BLOOD OF ISRAEL (horror-comedy)

LOGLINE: A slacker Mormon missionary discovers the true value of saving souls when he finds out his companion is a vampire.

AWARDS: Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition finalist: second place

THE DEVIL'S BOUNTY (horror-western; King Cup Productions)
​LOGLINE: When a determined young bounty hunter sets out to retrieve her outlaw ex's body, she finds herself battling mysterious demonic forces within the woods... and, perhaps, within his rotting corpse, which might not be quite as dead as she'd hoped.

FORTY DAYS IN THE DESERT (absurdist comedy)

LOGLINE: When a would-be prophet is faced with temptation, he finds himself, despite his best intentions, failing at virtually everything.

I SEE THE DEMON (horror; Junesong Productions)

​LOGLINE: At her surprise birthday party, an emotionally on-edge woman experiences unexplainable phenomena that threaten to turn the best night of her life into a never-ending nightmare.

Co-written with Jacob Lees Johnson and Martha Duzett, directed by Jacob Lees Johnson, starring Jon Heder

PEBBLE CREEK (action-comedy; Test Area North)

LOGLINE: When a rundown Idaho ski resort finds itself under attack from an actual yeti, the resort's ragtag team of washed-up employees is forced to step up, finally take control of their lives, and do battle with the monster. 

​Story by Dusty Hulet

THE SEVEN DEATHS OF RASPUTIN​ (magical-realist horror... farce?)
LOGLINE: A young Russian aristocrat's attempted assassination of Rasputin is complicated by the appearance of unwanted houseguests -- and by the fact that the mad monk inexplicably just won't die.

SKIN DEEP (horror; Top Dead Center Films)

​LOGLINE: When the son of a famous country singer goes to clear out his family home after his father's unexpected death, he's terrified to find a dead, mutilated body in the basement. Soon, he's under attack from a pair of criminals who are desperate to get rid of the body… and anyone who might be a witness.

​TROLLEY PROBLEMS (comedy-drama)

LOGLINE: A frustrated, down-on-his-luck philosophy professor realizes he may not know quite as much as he thought about how the world works in the middle of a midlife crisis. 

​WORST SUMMER EVER (horror-comedy; Happy Rabbit Productions)

LOGLINE: When a summer camp finds itself under attack from a masked killer, one of the camp counselors will have to put all her wilderness survival skills to the test if she wants to make it back home alive.  

WWJD (comedy; New Play Project)

​LOGLINE: A college student's first date with his crush is thrown into disarray when Jesus Christ, the savior and redeemer of all mankind, shows up as the unexpected third wheel.

Adapted from the play by Anna Lewis