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Lucas Calzada
Writing
Here are a few proof of concept vids and loglines for your perusing pleasure. All represent my journey as a writer to where I am now— along the way acquiring new skills to fortify my craft, and gaining deeper insights into what it means to be human.
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Proof of Concept Scenes
I got plenty of ideas for projects, so decided to film some scenes to share the ideas with the world. If you'd like to know more about the series, or are interested in helping bring them to life, contact me.
"How Does That Make You Feel?"
Original Series Premise by Lucas Calzada
TITLE: How Does That Make You Feel?
GENRE: Satire (Comedy-Drama Limited Series, TV)
LOGLINE: A gay, upwardly-mobile, New York psychiatrist with a roster of idiosyncratic patients begins to unravel under the added pressure of keeping up with his social peers.
"In Contempt"
Original Series Premise by Lucas Calzada
TITLE: In Contempt
GENRE: Workplace Comedy (half-hour, TV)
LOGLINE: A misfit group of demeaned and devalued public defenders desperate for respect attempt to rise to the challenge of their trickiest client yet: a vapid ex-billionaire wrongly accused of murdering her husband.
"Love, Los Angeles"
Original Series Premise by Lucas Calzada
TITLE: Love, Los Angeles
GENRE: Ensemble Romantic Comedy
(half-hour, TV)
LOGLINE: "Love, Los Angeles" follows the romantic ups-and-downs of a diverse group of friends as they launch into their 30s, hoping to find love while holding onto their friendship in the City of Angels.
"Raúl, Slouching"
Original Series Premise by Lucas Calzada
TITLE: Raúl, Slouching
GENRE: Dramedy (half-hour, TV)
LOGLINE: A single, gay, 30-something Mexican American graphic designer living in Los Angeles searches for meaning and personal fulfillment in a world lurching further into the gyre of the 21st century.
"Kameron is Burning"
Original Series Premise by Lucas Calzada
TITLE: Kameron is Burning
GENRE: Comedy-Drama (half-hour, TV)
LOGLINE: An ambitious yet indecisive, 30-year old, gay Black content creator struggling to make a living in West Hollywood seeks self and belonging in a community that chafes at his intersectional identity.
Original Pilots
Gaylord Manor
In his large Pasadena home, a commercial actor houses his "chosen family"-- made up of aging queer folks with no next of kin , as well as younger folks on the LGBTQ spectrum + allies-- exploring what family is and means today in our modern world.
Half-hour Comedy (Multi-Cam)
North to Aztlán:
A Queer, Reflexive-Performative Audio Documentary-Romantic Comedy Regarding the Latino Experience in Alaska While Searching for Love in an Era ofLate-Stage Capitalism
In a work of speculative nonfiction, struggling actor-writer Lucas Calzada visits his hometown of Anchorage, AK to record an audio documentary about the Latino experience in the state, however the project veers off the rails thanks to conflicts with old friends, complicated romantic entanglements, and (of course) late-stage capitalism.
Half-hour Dramedy (Audio Narrative Limited Series)
Mixed
A diverse group of actors, artists, and activists strive to change the world for the better, even as the world scorns them for being agitators and ne'er-do-wells.
Half-hour Dramedy
Motley Fools
Set in Ye Olde London, following a young William Shakespeare and his eccentric theatre troupe trying to make their art and live their best lives in an era on the cusp of progressive change. Told with a diverse ensemble cast, cheeky modern humor, and contemporary flair.
Hour-long Comedy
Boyle Heights
A spunky, community-driven, radio variety show recorded in the Mexican-American enclave of Boyle Heights gets a chance to shine with the help of its "pocho" producer, an overbearing investor, and the endearing cast and crew.
Half-hour Comedy
Wander·Lust
A raunchy, behind the scenes look at the mischief and mayhem of a travel show as its host and crew seek to make the most of their on-the-road lifestyle.
Half-hour Comedy
Feature Screenplays
Rebels
Status: Work in progress.
Genre: Character-driven indie drama
Logline: Set in Alaska, when a lonely itinerant worker befriends a discontent housewife, both are forced to confront their present lives and decide which path to take forward on the road of life.
Danny
Note: My first feature screenplay!
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Logline: When a neurotic memoir-writer shackled by his past falls for an itinerant actor, he must choose between life and death, ambition and love, the past, the present, and the future.
TV Spec Scripts
Abbott Elementary
Logline: With the end of the school year just around the corner, Janine searches for validation in her work as a young teacher; Gregory helps Melissa deal with anger issues; while Jacob feels left out.
Note: Written towards the end of season 2.
Barry
Note: Written between seasons 2 and 3.
Logline: A sense-memory exercise in class stirs up painful, repressed memories in Barry, which further inflame due to pressures from Sally, Fuches, and Gene, until Barry finds relief the only way he can-- thru a violent spree, orchestrated by NoHo Hank as a means to eliminate his rivals.
What We Do In The Shadows
Note: Written between seasons 2 and 3.
Logline: A lonely Nandor crashes his ex's Vampire Wedding with Guillermo's help in an effort to reclaim his lost love, while an invited Nadja and Laszlo try to make the most of the sexual bacchanalia while attending.
Master of None
Note: Obsolete. Was sad to see this show go. I particularly enjoyed how it would diverge into fascinating stories unrelated to its main character.
Logline: Reeling from his recent breakup and questioning his professional future, Dev meets a young man that opens his eyes to new romantic possiblities.
Broad City
Note: Obsolete. A brilliant show that tapped into my love of broad humor and slapstick, sight-gag comedy. Such a joy writing this one.
Logline: Frustrated by her lack of professional success, Abbi tries out the legal field, helping Ilana contest a fine for public urination.
Short Screenplays
Are You My Mamá?
A little girl goes on a quest in her neighborhood to find her mother. Wrote this short for a class. Simple, cute, straightforward.
Alexandria
A successful yet cagey photographer who’s currently in a professional slump, is challenged to reveal himself— emotionally and physically— by the advances of a beautiful and mysterious model, finding new inspiration to revitalize his work in this cerebral, erotically-charged short script.
Stay
A young man, still scarred after the death of his only parent, is visited by an old friend, forcing him to make a choice about his future.
CHILD
Long-tormented by the death of his infant son, a haunted and desperate young man attempts to free himself of the pain of the past in a dark night of the soul. An experimental piece.
Miss Mary
An overly enthusiastic young woman from a small town moves to LA for adventure in a classic fish-out-of-water scenario. Wrote this for my SUPREMELY talented friend Valerie. Maybe one day we'll film it...
Theatre Plays
Curtain Rising
Genre: Solo-Show Action-Comedy
Logline: A cautious, self-deprecating stagehand recounts an unbelievable tale of mistaken identity— one that thrust him center stage in a globe-trotting adventure of survival against an evil mastermind bent on destabilizing the world...all while falling in love!
Note: written to be performed by one actor.
PACHANGA! Latinx Stories for Kids
Genre: Kids/Family Show
Logline: With the guidance of their oh-so-cool teacher, a group of Latinx students share folk tales/myth/stories their parents told them growing up to help them come to a shared understanding of what it means to be Latinx/a/o in America. With stories of adventure, romance, slapstick comedy, and even poetry, the show is both educational and a rollicking good time for all.
Sketch Comedy
(Most of these are a few years old, but thought it would be fun to share.)
Commercial for the new high-tech makeup: a dead squid.
The three witches from Macbeth getting into some spell problems.
Game show where people guess what they're tasting.
A second version, might be fun to compare the changes.
A small packet of three sketches— one about a Muse, the second is the dead squid again, and in the last one a guy goes to a fantasy land to battle a villain.
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