Tag: true crime

Lady Killer a semi-finalist for Outstanding Screenplays

August 27, 2025

MacLean’s acclaimed TV pilot Lady Killer, which explores women who date men in prison, has racked up another laurel. The project is a semi-finalist for the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition. The script, which began as a web series concept for Super Deluxe, has garnered attention from agencies, directors, and production companies as well as … More Lady Killer a semi-finalist for Outstanding Screenplays

THE POINT selected for 15th Anniversary Summer Playwrights Festival!

June 19, 2024

Coming this July: Moah love and murdah! THE POINT – Murph and Scanlan join love birds Lugo and Teenie for a debaucherous party deep in the Massachusetts woods. At first, they miss the underlying tension between the couple but then realize that the night is about to take a deadly turn…  Ali’s latest play, an … More THE POINT selected for 15th Anniversary Summer Playwrights Festival!

THE POINT Opens Winterfest to Raves.

February 28, 2024

Ali MacLean’s new play about love, class warfare, and opioids in Massachusetts, opened EST/LA’s Winterfest Festival of Plays last week, as the Pick of the Playwrights Unit. Starring Ashley Denise Robinson as the Co-ed, Abby, Michael King as Lugo the local drug kingpin, Greg Winter as the hapless Scanlan, Brent Morin as the heartsick Murph, … More THE POINT Opens Winterfest to Raves.

MacLean places in top 9% for Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023 competition

October 28, 2023

Ali’s play FINAL RESTING PLACE has made it to the final round of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023. With a submission total of over a thousand scripts, MacLean is in the top 9% of the selected playwrights. The Women’s Prize is the first of its kind which celebrates and champions female and non-binary playwrights … More MacLean places in top 9% for Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023 competition

MacLean published again by Smith and Kraus – Best Monologues of 2023!

October 12, 2023

Marking the 6th and 7th publication for Ali, Smith and Kraus‘s newest anthologies to hit the shelves The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023 and The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2023 both feature two pieces each from Ali’s plays. Each book has a monologue from Ali’s acclaimed play This Will Be Our Year (Hugo and Shannon), … More MacLean published again by Smith and Kraus – Best Monologues of 2023!

She’s Not There gets top ranking on Coverfly

April 10, 2023

It’s a good week for Ali’s screenplay, She’s Not There. First her award-winning story is advanced to the next round by Script Lab, then she lands in the Top 8% of discoverable projects and Top 10% of projects on the site. In a highly competitive field such as the Coverfly screenplay database, which showcases hundreds … More She’s Not There gets top ranking on Coverfly

Lady Killer Top Ten in ISA’s Austin Competition

September 20, 2021

Ali MacLean’s multi-award-winning dark comedy pilot Lady Killer has been named the top ten comedies in the International Screen Play Association’s Table Read My Screenplay competition. The winner is given a reading at the acclaimed Austin Film Festival, however due to COVID, it may be moved to a streaming performance. MacLean’s pilot follows women who … More Lady Killer Top Ten in ISA’s Austin Competition

COVERFLY selects Lady Killer for Live Read

July 29, 2021

Coverfly, a searchable script database that recommends writers to studios, producers, managers, literary agents and executives looking to find emerging, yet unsigned writing talent, has chosen Ali MacLean’s award-winning dark comedy pilot for their Live Read series. Coverfly partnered with the Storytellers Conservatory via the Screen Actor’s Guild, to host robust virtual live reads of … More COVERFLY selects Lady Killer for Live Read

Lady Killer Performed by Veteran Comedy Cast at Scriptd Virtual Reading

February 21, 2021

A cast of veteran stage and TV actors led a laugh-filled reading of MacLean’s dark comedy, Lady Killer, which explores women who date men in prison. The Scriptd reading, which comprised of the pilot and second episode, included Emily Goss (Shook), Wes McGee (NCIS), Deb Hiett (Documentary Now), Rob Nagle (Little Fires Everywhere), Phil LaMarr … More Lady Killer Performed by Veteran Comedy Cast at Scriptd Virtual Reading

SCRIPTD presents a Live Reading of Ali MacLean’s LADY KILLER

February 10, 2021

Scriptd connects talented writers with fans and the industry to help promote and actualize film and TV’s next big scripts Described as Waitress meets What We Do In The Shadows, Lady Killer is MacLean‘s award-winning, dark comedy TV pilot, tonally similar to Barry. Shelly’s family and friends in small-town Bogalusa aren’t crazy about her long-distance courtship with Wayne … More SCRIPTD presents a Live Reading of Ali MacLean’s LADY KILLER