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2009 Screenplay and Teleplay Semi-Finalists

DRAMA 

The Fix by David Poulshock 

Wonderwall by Mike Rinaldi 

Backslide by Thomas McNeely 

Tickling the Dragon’s Tail by Daryl Coon 

Inheritance by Jeannette Manning and Joseph Yuan 

Peace of Violence by Judy Vann 

Hidden in Plain Sight by Perry H. Patterson 

Spread the Alarm by Heidi-Annette Hall 

Palmer by Cheryl Guerriero 

Winkle by Richard Stephen Bell 

Crescent by Joseph Muszynski 

Life Between the Panels by James Vicari 

The Girl With the Camera by Darcy Gentling 

COMEDY 

Middle-Management Material by Sabrina and Sean London 

The Fall Guy by James A. Eliasberg 

Serial by Patrick Kevin Day and Andrew Hanson 

Drunk Dial by Bradley Jackson 

Sex With My Ex by Sage Wells 

Splice of Life by Mark Potts and Cole Selix 

Headhunter by Melissa Goetz 

You Shot Me, I Love You by Brandon Edwards 

The Southern Pole by Lance Slaton 

Monster Child by Mark Steven Porro 

LATITUDE 

Muti by Bob Bowersox 

Willie Francis Must Die Again by Allen Durand 

Goodbye David by Kristin Andrea Hanratty 

Serial by Patrick Kevin Day and Andrew Hanson 

Ballad of the Absent Man by Adam Glasseye Beckley 

Where the Sidewalk Ends by David Massie  

SCI-FI 

The Dorms by Matthew Bey 

The Little Room Above by Samuel Minier 

The City That Never Sleeps by Patrick Kevin Day 

The Other Side by Sean Wolfson 

The Master Code by Monica Hafer 

TV – SITCOM 

Big Bang Theory: The Kinetic Hamster Proposal by Kristen O’Steen Bobst 

30 Rock: Sticks and Stones by Tanisha White 

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Gang Joins the Army by Stephanie Maxwell 

TV – DRAMA 

Friday Night Lights: Just a Game by Sarah Cornwell 

Mad Men: Damage Control by Lee A. Carlisle 

Castle: Lullaby of Broadway by C. Paniamogan-Dauz and M.G. Paniamogan