'Split Screen' Dramatic Reading

Split Screen is my first comedic play, a story set on two film sets, 25 years apart. In 2009, acclaimed filmmaker Raul Castellano has gone through a 4 year creative drought and is now mounting his comeback film. He invites his lost love, a film reporter who inspired his film, to the set, and when she surprisingly shows up, he sets out to win her back even as financial and cast problems throw the filming into chaos.

In 2034, his daughter, Julia Castellano, mounts her debut film in a world haunted by COVID19. Facing a still sexist industry, a cast that doesn’t believe in her, and her internal struggle to be more than her father’s daughter, she takes refuge in her budding romance with her editor, an older woman who pushes her to embrace her artistic vision.