“A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.”
-Tobias Wolff
Sketch Comedy Writer
2025
UCB Maude
2024
Script Pipeline Feature Film Screenplay Contest
Two scripts placed in one of Hollywood’s elite contests.
Blindsight - Semifinalist
(top 18 of 4091 = top .4 percent)
Nocturnal - Quarterfinalist
(top 45 of 4091 = top one percent)
Repped by Zero Gravity
James is now a client of Zero Gravity, a film and television production and management company based in Los Angeles, whose A-list talent makes up some of the industry’s best. Film/TV credits for Zero Gravity include OZARK and BEAST OF NO NATION.
Featured on Black List site
James’ original screenplay, AXIS, scored in the top percentile of thousands of scripts on Franklin Leonard’s Black List site, as judged by its seasoned industry reviewers, earning the coveted, exclusive “reader certified” status, held by other top tier screenplays, such as Amazon Prime’s HONEY BOY. James is producing AXIS, alongside Andrew Baird, with Elevated Films (DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, THE BUTLER, ALL IS LOST) attached to the project.
2024 ScreenCraft Horror Competition Quarterfinalist
Exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,200 submissions.
Writing/Producing at Hooked. Revolutionizing Young Adult Content.
As a Staff Writer and Creative Executive, James has written/developed original Young Adult (YA) screenplays and pilots for HookedTV, in addition to adapting/creating works of short and longer form YA fiction on the Hooked reading app.
Audience numbers for his works have reached exciting totals:
For fiction: 15 stories published. 6.7 million readers.
For film: 25 short films. 132 million views.
He’s also written/developed podcast/audio story content, distributed via Snapshot, and through the podcast HOOKED ON HORROR, Hooked’s riveting horror anthology series, available on Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
YA Story of the Month: Dangerous Species
James’ original YA sci-fi thriller DANGEROUS SPECIES was featured as the Hooked fiction story of the month for December, 2020 on Snapchat. To date, it’s accumulated 502,000 reads across all distribution platforms.