Hannah Rose Vernot

I have been writing for comedy onscreen for several years up to this point. It has become the primary genre which underlines most if not all of my work. In 2021, I wrote, directed, and produced a comedic short film called “Coastal Redwood Grove,” adapted from my screenplay called “Coastal Marina Farm.” This was a fake infomercial about a grove or orchard of overplanted and defective trees that made fun of science denial. It was showcased at a local film festival in 2022. As one of my earliest works, it is how I got my start and something I will never not be proud of.

The very first feature-length film I have ever worked on is a low-budget comedy film called “The Perfect Candidate.”

It is a film I helped write with three other writers about a disgruntled tech job applicant. He is tired of being rejected and kidnaps the hiring manager at one of the firms he applied at. He forces said manager to go through the interview process, this time answering the questions himself. It was a movie I had a superb time working on, if only for the fun experience I had collaborating with other writers on different comedic scenes to put together a feature film.

After that, I decided to try my hand at writing television pilots, knowing it would be a lot less stressful to suss out a half-hour comedy than hour-long drama. I wrote a thirty-nine-page-long sitcom pilot about two sisters who have just realized they died and their ghosts are stuck in the living realm. This leads to numerous instances of the women attempting to plot to get their souls to ascend with varying levels of success. It’s a script initially written in freeform that then just kind of naturally fell into the three-act structure of a sitcom episode.

The aforementioned original sitcom script was eventually entered into and is currently being shopped for different screenwriting contests or programs. Another sitcom script that I wrote to be entered as a submission for a screenwriting fellowship is a spec script for the show, What We Do in the Shadows. The fellowship in question asked for two scripts–one original and the other a spec script of a preexisting show. It was a challenge, but writing the spec was an exercise that helped me practice structuring a pilot. It gave me confidence to write more pilots.