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Musical Television Pilot by Stephen Nolly
LOGLINE: When a mixed-race session musician is tired of getting told he "doesn't look like a rockstar," he finally gets his shot when a Music Producer agrees to take him to to the "Big Show" - the only catch: He has to hide his ethnicity with facepaint in this late 70's ROCK MUSICAL pilot.
WRITER BIO: Stephen Nolly is a biracial, Japanese-Jewish, Air Force brat who cut his teeth in New York’s theater scene. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he was a resident artist at TriBeCa’s Flea Theater (Drama Desk, OBIE Award). Since coming to LA to pursue more Film & TV, Stephen has become a Paramount Mentorship Finalist, a WB Writers’ Workshop Finalist, was accepted into Soho House Script House Lab (w/ Barry Jenkins & Lulu Wang), was named a CA Artist Fellow, and won the Thriller Genre in the 2022 ISA Fast Track Fellowship. His scripts have also advanced at the Austin Film Festival, Sundance Episodic and Feature labs, named in the top 34 pilots at Slamdance, Finalist in the Circle of Confusion Discovery Fellowship, Finalist in Script Pipeline’s Film Pipeline contest, Finalist in WeScreenplay’s Diverse Voices, two scripts listed in this year’s The Originals Bureau, and an Audio Drama anchoring the holiday-themed Naughty List. Stephen enjoys high-concept, socially-conscious stories, is an amateur locksmith, dabbles in horology (watchmaking), was a competitive ballroom dancer, and is a member of Mensa. Stephen is repped by Sherice Dugan at Sandstone Artists.
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