Embracing the Monster By David Beck. Screenplay and pitch deck available upon request. Set to the composer’s immortal music with choreography by Pontus Lidberg.

In a remote cabin, a morphine addicted young man visits his uncle in exile, the legendary composer Tchaikovsky, who is doomed to take poison by order of the Tsar as punishment for homosexual crimes, all the while navigating through a surreal landscape of dancing hallucinations and inner-demons.

Genre: Psychological horror

TIME-OUT WITH AUNT BARBARA written by Jennifer Bobbi and David Beck. Television Pilot (30 minutes), Pitch Deck, and Story Bible available upon request. Based on the beloved character and social media sensation created by Jennifer Bobbi.

A child TV star of the 60s struggles to make her comeback in the modern age. Tonal references: Mister Rogers meets Strangers with Candy.

Genre: Comedy Series

MEHMET

(screenplay commission) Script available upon request. written by David Beck and Ezgi Cohen.

A Turkish immigrant gives up a glamorous life as a beloved actor in his homeland when he acclimates to New York City, gets a job in food delivery, and falls in love with a male school teacher, but when a family crisis draws him back to Istanbul, he must face the traditional upbringing he fled.

Genre: Romantic Comedy / Drama

OLD FASHIONED LOVE STORY

(Stage play) Script available upon request. written and performed by David Beck.

Old Fashioned Love Story is a tale of being young, gay, drunk, and in the arts. On the piano, David pines for lost love, for New York, for that period of life that seems all too fleeting as he shares his bittersweet love story with a talented fashion designer of ten
years…of the forces that keep them together as they tear themselves and one another apart…

“David Beck’s voice is acerbic and his wit is sharp.” – Booklife

“David Beck is a revelation and a delight.” -Broadway World

PATRICK’S TURN

(screenplay) Script available upon request. written by David Beck.

After his father suffers a debilitating stroke, a young jazz musician moves back into his parents’ sleepy Ohio home to care for him, but he feels confined and longs to pursue his own future elsewhere.

Genre: Comedy / Drama

UNTITLED LISA POTTS PROJECT

(screenplay commission) Outline phase. Written by David Beck and the director Catriona Rubenis-Stevens.

On an afternoon in July, twenty-one year old preschool teacher Lisa Potts and four of her students were brutally attacked by a man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and donning a machete in Wolverhampton, England. This is her story. Written and produced with the blessing of Lisa Potts herself.

Genre: True Crime