Sallie Patrick
sallie@fellswoop.net
bio
In 2004, Sallie completed The Burgermeister's Daughter,
a screenplay written alongside Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary,
Fur) for Girl from Queens Productions. She now works as
Wilson's research assistant. Sallie received the 2003 Alfred
P. Sloan Fellowship for her script Kingdom of Shadows,
the 1999 Reynolds Price Award for her script make-believe,
and her play Twelve has been awarded grants for a 2006
Pittsburgh premiere. Her short films have been screened at various
festivals and aired on television ("A Day at the Races",
"Switcherooni", "A Thumbnail Tale", "One
Nation Under Tommy"). Sallie holds a BA from Duke University,
an MFA from Carnegie Mellon, and is a member of the Dramatists
Guild and Women in Film (L.A. division).
work
Between Trapeze & Train
Full-length play (1M, 1W, 3 Puppeteers)
A devastating circus train wreck leaves only two survivors:
a strong-man named Oswald, and a side-show performer dubbed
"The Largest Woman in the World." They meet in the woods near
the accident, and Oswald soon realizes they have lost everything
in the wreck: their families, friends, livelihood, and home.
The woman has also lost her memory, so Oswald decides to give
her a new past, to protect her from the sorrowful truth of their
current situation. He builds a Shadow Circus and together they
reconstruct a new life from the shattered past they share.
Twelve
Full-length play (3M, 3W)
Turning twelve means Mei must find employment in a nearby
city, leaving the orphanage where she was raised. She fears
this future because she has witnessed the twelve-year-olds
before her disappear into the unknown. Mei decides to fight
her fate, and enlists a mystical Chinese Dragon to help her
scheme a way to stay eleven forever.
Twelve is dark fairytale about population restriction
and the resulting gender discrimination in China, written
for the
Half the Sky
Foundation.
"Down in the Trailer Ark"
One-act (1M, 2W)
After their trailer park is flooded, a delusional man and his
wife prepare to repopulate the world. A local reporter arrives
to find holes in their story and their boat, and everything
starts to sink.
Bluebird
Feature-length screenplay
Shannon is reading To Kill a Mockingbird for her high
school English class. The required essay topic is to “take
a walk in someone else’s shoes.” She chooses to
study Molly, a mysterious bus-driver who has just moved to their
sleepy town. Shannon becomes obsessed with the rumors of Molly's
lesbianism, and as secrets come out into the open, Shannon's
good intentions only foster the town’s ignorance and hatred,
leading to Molly’s ruin.
Kingdom of Shadows:
A Portrait of the Lumiere Brothers
Feature-length screenplay
At the end of the 19th century, Louis Lumière is commanded
by his father to reinvent Edison’s Kinetoscope, to "get
the image out of the box" so people may watch films together
as an audience. Louis becomes entranced with Annabelle, the
sensual dancer captured inside the Kinetoscope. He identifies
with her, since he himself feels trapped by his family and career,
and he sets off to project her from the box. Anabelle's image
haunts Louis as he struggles against his controlling father,
his brother’s bourgeois complacency, his wife’s
peculiar jealousy, and the protests of conservative Paris who
fear his new and "ungodly" technology will disrupt
the already teetering status quo.
make-believe
Feature-length screenplay
Life in the 1950’s seems peachy-keen for everyone except 10-year
old Norma Mae and her dysfunctional parents. In order to cope
with her comatose mother and washed-up father, Norma dresses
up as her favorite femme fatales, escaping into her imagination.
But when Tate, a peculiar teenager with an obsession for death,
moves to the neighborhood, he teaches Norma that her make-believe
is only the first step to solving her problems.
"Fizzbert"
Short screenplay
Hubert, a lifetime loser, tries to buy a soda. He receives instead
an ancient dusty bottle with a cap that reads, You are a
winner. Despite the mocking of his doubting wife, Hubert
sets out to claim his mysterious prize from the soda company
that has long been out of business.
"OutofSpace"
Short screenplay
In the not-so-distant-but-very-overcrowded future, an idealistic
farmboy moves to the city with hopes of making it big by making
things small.
