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Tom Schneider
Philadelphia, United States
Tom studied philosophy and painting at Hampshire College and showed his work in galleries across the US before trading his paint brushes for an old typewriter at a pawn shop somewhere in New England.
He wrote his first screenplay; Exiled while living in Moscow, Russia. After several more he wrote his first of six novels.
His screenplay Dead at Silver Lake, placed as a semifinalist in Creative Screenwriting’s Unique Voices Screenplay Contest, 2023. His work Headless 1776 placed as a quarterfinalist in Script2Comic 2022.
Scripts By Tom
Dead at Silver Lake
A young moonshiner witnesses a murder and gets caught in a mystery that threatens his sanity, his life, and his soul.
Feature Crime, Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery, Thriller For sale 75pp
3 readers love this script
Witch Hunt 1730
In 1730, a reporter travels to the Pine Barrens to cover a witch trial and learns there’s more to the story than witches and someone wants him dead.
Feature Crime, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller For sale 100pp
2 readers love this script
The King of Pain
A mysterious snake oil salesman is hired by the JD Bullion Medicine Show but they soon regret it when they learn the cost.
Feature Crime, Film-Noir, History, Mystery, Thriller For sale 102pp
1 reader loves this script
Betsy's Battlefield
General Washington launches an attack on Trenton in the blizzard of 1776, and a young Betsy Ross must stop Colonel Von Donop and 2,000 Hessian forces to secure his victory.
Feature Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War For sale 93pp
1 reader loves this script
Casey's Crucible
When the FBI and CIA use a modeling agent as a honeypot to catch her lover, an on-the-run assassin, she uses everything she’s got to turn the tables on them.
Feature Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller For sale 79pp
1 reader loves this script
Hollywood Sacrifice
The hunted becomes the hunter when a former government assassin tries to save a dancer from a secret-society’s deadly ritual.
Feature Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller For sale 67pp
Montauk Mayhem
When a boy goes missing, a fortuneteller holds the key, and only an on-the-run former government agent can save him. But he’ll have to unleash hell to do it.
Feature Crime, Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery, Thriller For sale 68pp
Headless 1776
In 1776, Elijah travels from Philadelphia to Tarrytown, NY, where he joins the revolution, falls in love, and brings about the rise of the Headless Horseman.
Feature Action, Adventure, Fantasy, History, Horror For sale 50pp
Foundings
Set in the 1700s, Foundings explores the mysterious legends that color America’s past and the human pursuit to find meaning in a tumultuous world.
TV Pilot Adventure, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller For sale 52pp
1 reader loves this script
Broken Monarch
1979: Vietnam veteran Glenn experiences episodes of lost time, when Lindsey enters his life holding the key to his past. He unravels a plot to kill the First Lady and a conspiracy threatening his life.
TV Pilot Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller For sale 65pp
1 reader loves this script