Playwright & Screenwriter

TV & Film

l to r: Will Brittain, Jessie Dean & Gabriel Jason Dean at the premiere of PIGSKIN in NYC.

l to r: Will Brittain, Jessie Dean & Gabriel Jason Dean at the premiere of PIGSKIN in NYC.

Gabriel Jason Dean speaking at The Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts in Washington DC.

Gabriel Jason Dean speaking at The Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts in Washington DC.

Television

in development

Deplorable

An unforgettable epic ‘bout a forgotten Veteran turned addict who'll do just about anything to save his chosen family and their small Georgia hometown from becoming the bottom of someone else’s bottom line. One hour drama.

Rabble

Set fifteen minutes in the future, a group of train-hopping gutter punks form a group of modern-day Robin-Hoods committed to a revolution to steal back the American dream. One hour drama.

We Belong

A queer throuple raises their children in Brooklyn. Co-written with Jessie Dean. Finalist for Humanitas New Voices Award. Half-hour comedy.

Film

in development

Pigskin

Feature-length drama about a high school football star in small town Texas who comes out to his team just before State.

D'Angelico

Feature-length drama about two estranged brothers -- one, a hot shot liberal lawyer, the other, a convicted murderer and member of the Aryan Brotherhood -- who are forced to reunite when their father dies.    

TenderFoot

Animated feature for kids set in the late 1800s that follows LaLa, a young Bigfoot as she and her tribe of the Bigs protect the forest from an ambitious industrialist.