TV COMEDY PILOTS
POTENT
When an overly naive young woman discovers an alterative sexual wellness centre that might hold the key to unlocking her sexual potential, she leaps at the chance to work alongside a quirky crew of liberated healers, but struggles to fit in and squelch her sexual hang-ups.
Available: Pilot script, Characters, Pilot synopsis, Series overview, Season 1 Episodic breakdown, Pitch Package
Awards: Selected by AccessCBC for development mentorship (2022), Austin Film Festival Comedy Teleplay, second rounder (2021)
BEAR, BILLY & BEYOND
An uptight, fiercely independent woman struggles to co-parent with an eccentric hippie man half her age, while navigating the changes he and his Burning Man friends bring to her personal and romantic life, without totally going bonkers.
Available: Pilot script, Characters, Pilot synopsis, Series overview
Awards: Austin Film Festival Comedy Teleplay, Semi-finalist (2019); Coverfly Red List (Top 5%)
AMPLIFIED
A comedy webseries about a group of outspoken teens – all outsiders in their own rural communities – who struggle to collaborate as a team, after they’re brought together for a national youth poetry slam competition.
Available: Pilot script
RIP IT UP
In the early 90’s punk music scene, a classically trained musician pursues an unlikely career as the lead singer of an all-woman alt-rock band The Rippers, while striving to keep her new angry rock identity from reeking havoc on her personal life.
Available: Mini bible, character break-down.
Short Films
MRS. CLAUS’S COMPLAINT (comedy)
Fed up with being stuck inside, in the world’s most isolated location, Mrs. Claus vents to her online therapist about the unique challenges of her marriage.
Screened: Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, 2022
not a west coast girl…yet (Comedy)
Out of her comfort zone in San Francisco, a naïve farm girl overshares during a job interview and discovers some awkward truths about herself.
Screened: at the Vancouver Performance Quarantine Festival (2020), Winner: Audience Choice Award
THE PROCEDURE (drama)
A young woman struggles with indecision about her unplanned pregnancy as she tries to make sense of her fears manifesting as different versions of her future children.
Status: Currently in post. Will be released Fall, 2022
Shannon Rayne 