JANYCE LAPORE
SCREENWRITER/OFF OFF BROADWAY PLAYWRIGHT

janycelapore@gmail.com
412-741-8415
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SCREENPLAYS NOMINATION

Nominated for “The Arthur Rosenfeld Award for Excellence in Writing and the Ability to Tell an Outstanding Story” at the 2008 Action on Film International Film Festival in Los Angeles. Hollywood Scriptwriting Award for the Written Word

I am an Off Off Broadway playwright published in English, German and Dutch. As a new screenwriter, my scripts Screaming My Heart Out, Poppytown and 10 Minutes From Paradise, have all won major film festival awards.
(Please see all nominations and awards attached to each script) SCREENPLAYS

SCREAMING MY HEART OUT

“Best Screenplay” Nomination, DeLaurentiis Cinema City Film Festival
“Official Selection” 2009 Action on Film International Film Festival, Trailer created by festival
“Official Selection” New Jersey Film Festival, 2009
Winner, “Best Screenplay” Female Eye Film Festival, 2009 Toronto, Canada
Nominated, “Best Screenplay” The Alliance for Women Filmmakers, LA (TBA)
“Silver Drama Award”, International PAGE Screenplay Awards
“Best Screenplay”, Hollywood ScriptWriting Awards
Finalist, Venice Film Fesitval
Top Ten, Cynosure Screenplay Competition
Top Ten, New Century Writer Awards
Coppola sponsored, New Century Writer Reading Series (Studio Reading, Off Off Broadway)
Top Ten, Moondance Film Festival
Top Five, New Jersey Film Festival
Top Ten, Canada’s Red Ink Awards

10 MINUTES FROM PARADISE

(Presently under option )
(then titled SCRATCH DANCERS)
Top Award, WorldFest Screenplay Competition
Finalist, Maui Film Festival
10 MINUTES FROM PARADISE
“Official Selection, 2008" Action on Film International Film Festival
Top Ten, Final Draft Screenplay Competition
Winner, “Best Screenplay”, Independent Film Festival Award
Best Screenplay, Hollywood Script Writing Awards
Top Ten, Texas Film Festival
Best Final Scenes in a Screenplay, Feeding Frenzy
Best Drama, Quantum Quest Film Competition
Top Ten, New Century Writer Awards
Grand Finalist, BDR Radmin Films Award
Open Door, Script Writers Magazine
Top Twenty, Rhode Island Film Festival

POPPYTOWN

“Silver Drama Award” Cinema City International Film Fistival Online Monthly Award
Best New Film Noir” Fade In Magazine Screenplay Competition
Finalist, Writers & Artist Award
“Official Selection, 2008" Action on Film International Film Festival
Finalist, Writers Network

MEMBERSHIP

Writers Guild East

PLAYS

OFF OFF BROADWAY PLAYWRIGHT, NOMINATED FOR A CARBONELL AWARD FOR
THE “BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR”

DOLORES RAIN

Florida Council of the Arts Award

PRODUCTIONS

Acme Acting Company Miami,Florida
Organic Theatre Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland Public Theatre Cleveland, Ohio

A CURSE OF ANGELS

New Dramatist Award New York, New York

FERRIS WHEEL AWARDS

Carbonell Nomination: Best Play of 1998
Florida Council of the Arts Award
Winner, Chicago International Play Award, Center Theatre
Top Ten, New Century Writer Awards / Francis Ford Coppola reading, New York

PRODUCTIONS

Canon Theatre Los Angeles, California
Chicago Dramatist Chicago, Illinois
Florida Shakespeare Theartre Miami, Florida
Off Off Broadway, Common Basis Theatre New York, New York
Off Off Broadway, Flipside Theatre New York, New York
Off Off Off Broadway, 13th. Street Rep New York, New York

PUBLICATIONS

Dramatic Publishing Chicago, Illinois
Translated into German and Dutch
Uitgeverrij Vink Holland

DERRINGER

Developed Off Broadway, 13th. Street Rep New York, New York

NOVELS

“Cruel Poetry” by Vicki Hendricks, Serpent’s Tale, London, England. Published 2007
Assisted and advised well known novelist, Vicki Hendricks, with character and plot development with her latest novel “Cruel Poetry”.

LATEST PROJECT

Working Script: A Cuban escapes his homeland on a raft to become a famous American guitarist

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