Cybelle often writes her own material (see "Films" and "Audio Fiction" pages). In addition, she enjoys writing for other directors and writing together with others! Additional writing samples below.
Sleepaway
Format: 10 page short film
Sleepaway is a ten minute comedic drama that follows a family splintered by grief as they transport their matriarch’s body across the state in a Uhaul trailer. It explores how loss and the different forms it takes can destroy relationships or bring them closer together.
Semi-Finalist: Palm Springs Women in Film & Television & Stage 32 Short Script Competition
Finalist: CASCADIA International Women's Film Festival (Screenplay category)
Fallout: New Vegas
Format: First 15 pages of full length screenplay
In an alternate future where the Cold War turned hot and the world has become a nuclear wasteland, an amnesiac courier becomes entangled in a battle between factions to control the lawless, sordid, Wild West ruins of Las Vegas.
As an exercise for a screenwriting class on adaptations, Cybelle wrote the first 19 pages of an adaptation of the hit video game Fallout: New Vegas.
What's Coming To Him
Format: First 15 pages of full length screenplay
After their mother's death, two siblings find out she was abused as a teen, and set out to find the now
elderly man to get revenge.
First Base
Format: 30 minute one act play
During the summer of 1976 in small town West Virginia, four young girls discover the challenges of love, life, and softball. Girls are finally allowed to play in Little Leagues, but our heroes have other problems. Will Anne find a way to connect with her absent father? Will Jenny get the girl? And will they win the big game?
Brick Theatre Company produced a virtual production of First Base in their 2020 New Play Festival, directed by Chloe King.
Watch on Youtube HERE.
