Young voters in 1860 were much like Gen-Z of today: they were the least racist voters in the electorate, the most scientifically educated, and the most economically progressive. In the winter of 1860, a handful of friends in Hartford started a strident political club called “The Wide Awakes” which soon spawned 2,000 chapters and 100,000 members across 20 states. Along the way, they made the nascent Republican Party into the home of America’s woke youth and pushed the Party to the left. The heart of this story is a personal narrative of the club from its beginnings, revealing one of those rare moments in America when a handful of young people actually changed the course of history.
Archives: Projects
White House Plumbers
The untold story of Nixon’s Plumbers – and the scores of dirty tricks they pulled off for years before they were sabotaged from within at the Watergate.
Mark Twain Project
A TV series based on Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s travel books detailing his epic journey becoming Twain.
Theorem Season 1
An ongoing mystery series following a podcaster who investigates the bizarre deaths of over 20 cold war defense scientists. THEOREM is a modern deconstruction of the conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s. A collaboration with Jake Hart and James V. Hart (Hook, Contact).
The Bitter Sea
June 1967, fourteen cargo ships get stranded in the Suez Canal’s Great Bitter Lake as war between Israel and Egypt erupts. Thus begins one of history’s most amazing and forgotten stories of survival, connection, and friendship.
Doomsday Project – Script Sample
A group of students discover a forgotten Manhattan Project machine that promises to change their lives and help the world. Ex Machina meets a satanic Her.
Covenant – Pitch Deck
Survivors of an ancient secret society struggle to expose their dark conspiracy to achieve immortality. “True Detective” meets “Orphan Black.”
Wild Goose – Synopsis
An “Indiana Jones” style globe-hopping Adventure series about a lone man’s struggle against the dying light of the American Empire.
GI Show – Look Book
Set in the ruins of Korea after the expulsion of their Japanese oppressors, the true WWII story of a few stir-crazy American soldiers who started a touring vaudeville theatre company that went on to become a huge success.
Parallax – TV Treatment
An assistant P.I. and his comrades race through different parallel universes, struggling to avoid their pursuers and find the way back home.