Tom Moran

[ONE-ACT] A frustrated uterus goes walkabout in search of fulfillment.

[TEN-MINUTE] A bickering couple's camping trip goes from bad to worse when they discover that their tent is haunted.

[TEN-MINUTE] A new employee is shocked and bewildered at her co-workers' extravagant entries into the firm's holiday gift exchange.

{TEN-MINUTE] A man skeptical about the intentions of his father's new fiance confronts him over a game of craps in a rundown Vegas casino.

[FULL-LENGTH] Brady Hobbs is a resolute atheist and a starting NFL quarterback – until he’s injured, and his fundamentalist backup reels off a string of improbable victories. Now he’s determined to get his job back and show the world that talent, not faith, is what wins the ballgame.

[FULL-LENGTH] Astronomer Jillian Carter has had a rough couple of years: first her husband ran off with an undergrad, then she struck out again and again trying to fund her research. That all changes when a distinguished scientist offers her a generous grant, but as her funders’ requirements grow more and more objectionable, Jillian realizes she’s getting sucked into the world of climate change denial.

[FULL-LENGTH] For two decades, trapper Joe Warren and his daughter have eked out an existence on a remote stretch of the Yukon River. But the arrival of an unexpected visitor hoping to live off the land throws their careful life into turmoil and forces them to confront mistakes they thought they’d buried. (O'Neill semi-finalist)

[ONE-ACT] In May 1673, a convent in a small town in Italy mysteriously burned to the ground. But was it accident, or arson? Based on a true story.

[ONE-ACT] Sean's figured out an ingenious (or perhaps not) way to keep women from dumping him: hit them with an exit interview, designed to accentuate his positives and get them to change their minds. Over the course of three separate dates, he comes to realize the deception isn't going to work, but also figures out what will.

[TEN-MINUTE] 15-year-old Chloe met Woodrow on Discord and was instantly enamored. Which is a problem, because Woodrow is a telegraph operator in 1881.

[TEN-MINUTE] An old-fashioned superhero has to deal with both a ticking time bomb and his stridently feminist new sidekick.

[TEN-MINUTE] Melanie is headed out on a first date - but her smartphone's GPS app sends her to her ex-boyfriend's house instead. The phone then starts to speak up on Melanie's ex's behalf, convincing her to try to reconcile with him - at which point we discover the phone's true motive is to reunite with a former lover of his own.

[TEN-MINUTE] Ted's not taking his 50th birthday very well, especially now that his ex is getting remarried. So he lures her back the only way he knows how: by dressing up like a pharaoh and enlisting her into his funerary obligations.

[TEN-MINUTE] Mark comes to a college admissions office with an unusual offer: he wants to bribe them to reject his daughter so he doesn't have to pay for college.

[TEN-MINUTE] Arthur has returned to his hometown in search of an explanation for an inexplicable event in his youth. A chance encounter with a local on a local trail gives him an unexpected answer.

[TEN-MINUTE] Neophyte necromancer Morris gets called in to reanimate dowager Belinda’s dead cat. But this turns out to be merely preface for Belinda’s much larger and more gruesome request: to bring her daughter’s dead boyfriend back to life.

[TEN-MINUTE, MUSICAL] Henry David Thoreau escapes his cabin on Walden Pond to invade his sister's house on pizza night. Co-written with Marty Moran.

[TEN-MINUTE, MUSICAL] The founders of communism take in a baseball game. Co-written with Marty Moran.

[ONE-ACT] Hannah is uniquely unlucky in love. Brandon has had way more romantic success than he ever wanted. When these two forces of nature meet, will it end their respective misery or just prolong it?

[TEN-MINUTE] A progressive-minded worker at an educational software company is horrified to find out some of the side business the firm engages in.

[ONE-ACT] In this dystopian comedy, the government has started using computer dating algorithms to play matchmaker. But what happens when you substitute compatibility for romance?

[ONE-ACT] It ain't easy being green - or 250 feet tall, or radioactive - but Godzilla has weathered all storms. But what good will fire breath and bulletproof skin do him when he's facing down a full-blown existential crisis?

[ONE-MINUTE] A couple communicating via text use increasingly lengthy and bizarre acronyms to summarize their thoughts.

[TEN-MINUTE] Faded videogame superstar Pac-Man gets another shot at stardom when he is found by an old nemesis.

[TEN-MINUTE] The Jacobses are called into the school psychiatrist’s office to learn their daughter’s calm demeanor and exemplary study habits are evidence of a horrible new malady: Attention Surplus Disorder.

[TEN-MINUTE] A CPR instructor gets a little too attached to his Resusci-Annie dummy.

[TEN-MINUTE] Josh and Patty's relationship is built around Zodiac signs. So what happens when Josh finds out he may have gotten his birthdate wrong? And can their Zodiac signs (appearing as characters) help iron the whole thing out?

[TEN-MINUTE] A group of books relegated to the library book sale have mixed reactions to their impending fates.

[ONE-ACT] Luke won a contest to have dinner with three historical figures of his choice, then picked three people to impress his fiancée Jenny. When the dinner goes horribly wrong, it’s up to some of history’s greatest luminaries to help Luke win back Jenny’s love.

[TEN-MINUTE] Sibling rivalry takes a turn for the surreal when Curt one-ups his brother Lee’s story with an outrageous tall tale. Unless, of course, he’s telling the truth…

[TEN-MINUTE] A businesslike father has had enough of his mischievous son. So he fires him.

[TEN-MINUTE] Matt tries to get his terminally ill brother Jason excited about joining a fantasy football league. But Jason has a different idea of what constitutes "fantasy."

[TEN-MINUTE] Miriam's been working in the shadow of her brother for years now and is starving for some recognition. But that's easier said than done, since her brother is busy trying to lead the Israelites to the promised land.

[ONE-ACT] In this Shakespearean mashup - written entirely in blank verse - the meddling friars in “Romeo and Juliet” and “Much Ado About Nothing” are revealed to be the same person, executing both far-fetched schemes at the same time.

[ONE-ACT] The characters in a hack Western novel have had enough. So they rise up in rebellion against their author.