If interested in a sample or perusal copy of any script, please email me at mdgardiner94@gmail.com
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Screenplay
AS DEAD AS DISCO
Feature.
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Once Upon a Time… At The Jersey Shore…
Young lifeguard captain Sandra Faye discovers the gruesome corpse of local beach bum “Disco” Davies and is flung into under-the-boardwalk underworld of drugs, violence, public nudity, and …beach badges in this sun-poisoned dark comedy.
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Plays
FRANKENSTEIN UNLEASHED:
Full Length. 2m, 2f, 1 boy. Flexible Casting & Set.
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Frankenstein Unleashed is a wickedly in-your-face tragicomic riff on Mary Shelley’s classic novel, exploring what happens when Victor Frankenstein actually completes his work on The Creature’s “Bride.” Infusing bold humor, classical allusions, and a fair dose of all-out gore, Michael Gardiner’s new play ponders nothing less than what it means to be “alive.”
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Workshop: The Black Box Performing Arts Center, 2021.
ALL HOPE IS LOST:
Full Length, Dark Comedy. 5 Actors.
Flexible Casting & Set.
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Somewhere between a Grimm fairy tale, an absurdist satire, and a children's television show, follow the impossibly optimistic and innocent Hope on her bizarre odyssey of self-discovery. As she interacts with a multitude of freakish characters, we'll begin to question: can hope truly flourish in an absurd and mean world?
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