Anthony R. Sciullo
tsciullo@fellswoop.net
bio
Anthony R. Sciullo received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from
Carnegie Mellon University in 2002 and was awarded a Shubert
Playwriting Scholarship. His screenplay, Third Sight,
received a 2002 Sloan Foundation Screen Writing Fellowship and
was also a semi-finalist for the 2003 Chesterfield Writers Project.
He received a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Playwriting
for the 2005 Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Prior to graduate school, Anthony was a board member of Tale
Spinners Theater and a member of their Oral History Playwrights
Project, researching and developing plays based on oral history.
His plays Homework, Candlestick Tales (in
collaboration with the OHPP) and Red Harvest were produced
by Tale Spinners in San Francisco.
work
Plays [skip to Screenplays]
"Road to Virginia"
One act
Comedy
Paula and Ray have been struggling for two years to have a baby
and their lack of success has put a strain on their relationship.
After trying everything western and non-traditional medicine
has to offer, they finally achieve their goal in the most unlikely
manner.
Quicksand Tango
Full length play
Comedy
Aqua has finally found the girl of his dreams; too bad she's
married to his best friend.
Contrition
Full length play
Drama
Leo is released from prison and discovers that his parents refuse
to take him in. His only hope is a young priest, the man who
put him in jail in the first place.
Reverentia
Full length play
Drama
Johnny rebels against his mother when he rejects his "gift"
of the mal occhio, the evil eye. His mother won't let him escape
his heritage and uses her own "gift" to force him,
nearly destroying her whole family.
Screenplays [back to Plays]
Riding Black
Feature film screenplay
Comedy
A young slacker promises to fulfill his dying Grandfather‚s
last wish to be buried beside his first true love; now all he
has to do is defy his whole family, steal Granpap's remains
and escape to Prague one step ahead of his very pissed off Dad.
Minimum Wage
Feature film screenplay
Comedy
Nick always wanted to play the hero and he finally gets his
chance when he foils a robbery at his fast food job; but when
he doesn't get the hero's recognition he craves, he robs the
place himself in revenge. His conscience eventually gets the
better of him and he decides to return the money but first he
has to steal it all back from his cohorts in crime.
Third Sight
Feature film screenplay
Drama
Esther is the CEO and chief scientist of a failing biotech company
struggling to market a new drug to treat degenerative blindness.
When her teen-aged son is diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa,
she's forced to choose between her career and her family; but
it's only when she's willing to risk everything she loves that
she is able to find a way to save her company and her son.
