AJ Clauss

writer & actor

home is NYC

home is also the little kentucky river
and a kayak

home is also queer spaces

& a good girl named Stella

writer & actor

home is NYC

home is also the little kentucky river
and a kayak

home is also queer spaces

& a good girl named Stella

Scripts

When You Were Small

by AJ Clauss

Synopsis

When high-schooler Christie survives three days lost alone in the Kentucky woods, the locals believe she’s been blessed by God. People flock to the park to pray while the Park Rangers, who saved Christie’s life, struggle with their own ghosts. There's bound to be a fine line between being blessed and being haunted.

When high-schooler Christie survives three days lost alone in the Kentucky woods, the locals believe she’s been blessed by God. People flock to the park to pray while the Park Rangers, who saved Christie’s life, struggle with their own ghosts. There's bound to be a fine line between being blessed and being haunted.

Henry Makes a Bible

by AJ Clauss

Synopsis

Two college students on their way to becoming doctors in a cut-throat system are willing to do anything and everything to make their way to the slippery top, while trying to survive their friendship amidst a torrential love triangle. A story of the world's most famous medical textbook, referred to today as the doctor's bible. Recipient of the EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission.

Two college students on their way to becoming doctors in a cut-throat system are willing to do anything and everything to make their way to the slippery top, while trying to survive their friendship amidst a torrential love triangle. A story of the world's most famous medical textbook, referred to today as the doctor's bible. Recipient of the EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission.

Salty

by AJ Clauss

Synopsis

When some queer little penguins try to raise an egg together at one of the last remaining conservation zoos, the spectacle draws in good business but a lot of hate. At a time when all of the other animals have stopped procreating, there's this one cracked egg that defies all odds and there's also this murderous fox who's old habits die even harder.

When some queer little penguins try to raise an egg together at one of the last remaining conservation zoos, the spectacle draws in good business but a lot of hate. At a time when all of the other animals have stopped procreating, there's this one cracked egg that defies all odds and there's also this murderous fox who's old habits die even harder.

Rat Jaw

by AJ Clauss

Synopsis

Set at the pit-stop of a devised Ultra-Marathon in Kentucky, Rat Jaw follows the relationships of endurance runners and their partners over the span of one race which takes a dangerous turn, forcing the pit-stop to not just be a place for calories and dry socks, but a refuge.

Set at the pit-stop of a devised Ultra-Marathon in Kentucky, Rat Jaw follows the relationships of endurance runners and their partners over the span of one race which takes a dangerous turn, forcing the pit-stop to not just be a place for calories and dry socks, but a refuge.

Close Your Eyes and Sleep

by AJ Clauss

Synopsis

Mackenzie Barrow is a professional hypnotist on the brink of a new clinical procedure that allows patients to re-write or erase the past. Some say hypnotism is the art of falling asleep, but it's also about when to wake up.

Mackenzie Barrow is a professional hypnotist on the brink of a new clinical procedure that allows patients to re-write or erase the past. Some say hypnotism is the art of falling asleep, but it's also about when to wake up.

Pardon the Fool

by AJ Clauss

Synopsis

A royal palace, run by Queen Siva, hires a court jester who is about to turn the whole place upside down, like tipping a cow, or a porta-pottie. Part stand-up, part romance, part guillotine.

A royal palace, run by Queen Siva, hires a court jester who is about to turn the whole place upside down, like tipping a cow, or a porta-pottie. Part stand-up, part romance, part guillotine.