THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Sam Brevik is about to turn thirty, has just lost another job and despite his best efforts, can’t get his life or his epilepsy in order. Having seizures in dive bar bathrooms, struggling to pay Brooklyn-sized rent, unexpectedly fathering a child with his neurologist, Rachel: some would consider this rock bottom, but for Sam, it’s just another Tuesday. However, there’s been a few strange developments: a shadowy figure is trailing him and his seizures are now accompanied by strange combinations of numbers in his head. After a few breathless chase scenes through Williamsburg, the stranger materializes at Sam’s new job. He is Theo Panagopoulos, acclaimed alien hunter and long-time colleague of Sam’s recently assassinated father, Stephen Timmerman. Abandoned at birth by a man he never met, the cynical Sam initially declines the invitation to Stephen’s Sedona memorial. But when Theo tempts him with the possibility of an epilepsy cure left in his father’s research, Sam agrees to travel to the Arizona desert with the big-haired, loquacious conspiracist.
The Nervous System, is a dynamic ensemble show about an epileptic misanthrope’s search for answers, both personal and cosmic. In this hour long Sci Fi comedy, we explore the world of aliens, conspiracy theories, and the mystery of how many exit signs one man can steal from a job without being fired.
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EFFECTED
Ida and Hunter are a mess, worn out, dirty, coated in blood, and their day is only half over. They are the owners of Spider Island Make Up Effects Studio, in Los Angeles California, and they spend their days making monsters, sculpting zombies, and building beasts.
With the help of their lovable stoner model builder Green and audacious studio manager Ozi, Spider island is responsible for TV’s most popular zombie television show, The Rising. Yet unlike their undead creations, Ida and Hunter have larger goals aside from fake brains. When an offer comes in for a big budget horror film, the two girls must assemble some new faces if they are going to beat out the rival studios for the contract.
Effected is a dark comedy about the people who design and bring your dreams and nightmares to life. They build Iron Man, not Tony Stark. They sew up Chuckie and give him a knife. They create the kidney, liver, lungs, and eyes stolen from unsuspecting college kids on vacation.
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DOWNSIZERS
"You know this whole thing is incredibly vague. For a guy who gives this speech, what like thousands of times a day, you suck at it. What am I doing? Killing people?" - Melvin
Melvin is dead, and to no one’s surprise has not ended up at the pearly gates. Instead he is in Maspeth Queens, in front of a low level executive, named Mr. Webb. He has received a small amount of fortune, because unlike most who end up in hell, he has been handed a gun, and a fully loaded work week. Melvin is now a hit man for the devil, or the preferred lingo, personal downsizer.
Melvin’s job isn’t an easy one though, and stalking the living is difficult when there is an army of attractive blondes ready to shoot you at every turn. Navigating the corporate world is hard enough for a junkie like Melvin, can he make it in this cutthroat world of the dead? Can this unemployed slacker handle his afterlife a little better than his life? Only Melvin can answer that.
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RUNNERS
"That's my restaurant Emma. It's not Jacob's. It's mine. Marcus gave that to me. I didn't beat an Iron Chef, or win a series of challenges, or travel the world. I fucking cooked, I cooked every night for that man. When he met me I was chopping daikon, in the basement, on Christmas. I came from Harlem, in the snow, at 4:30 in the morning. Subway wasn't even running. But I fucking made it. Only one there. And he shows up and he shakes my hand, and says to me, "Kid, thank you, Merry Christmas, but we're closed, and Jesus, you are destroying that radish". " - Davis
Davis Stone is the definition of a celebrity chef, he runs one of the busiest and most popular restaurants in NYC, he works for one of the greatest restaurateurs in the world, and he is beloved by the community. He’s the tattooed bad boy of the culinary world. But in this cutthroat industry, little ripples can make big waves.
Davis is barely holding it all together, beautiful daughter, ex wife, job. And when a shift in power at work takes his restaurant that he has built from the ground up away from him, he isn’t going to go down without a fight. Get ready for a back of the house look into the hippest restaurants, clubs, and bars in the five boroughs.