Raymond Sage, Thesis Supervisor Elisha Clark Halpin, Thesis Honors Advisor
Keywords:
Comedy Film Movie Feature Screenplay Queer LQBTQIA+
Abstract:
As a Musical Theatre major and Creative Writing/Business minor with a focus on Screenwriting and the Film/Entertainment industry at large, I decided that the ideal culmination of my educational journey would be in a full-length feature film screenplay. Not only would I write the screenplay, as I have already done, but I also would have a reading of the show wherein I would play one of the main characters in the piece. As a result, this feature film is a culmination of both my skills in performance and creative writing and affords me the chance to prove myself as a serious, multi-hyphenate artist. The subject matter of the artistic work itself is a topic near and dear to my heart and fields a question that I often pondered as the only LGBTQ student at my high school: what if I could see who else around me is gay? This feeling of otherness, and the subsequent longing to know and feel community, became the catalyst for what is hopefully a laugh out loud but heartfelt take on many of the experiences I had in high school, with a slightly supernatural twist. This piece is my love letter to my seventeen year old self, and I am honored to submit it as my honors thesis.
