Carly Bryann Young
Carly is a professional storyteller with over 10 years of experience as a trained and prolific writer, specializing in fantasy, adventure, supernatural, and historical epics.
She has written feature screenplays, stageplays, manuscripts, shorts, TV pilots, and co-wrote an original ballet production, 'Accoladis', with director & choreographer Natasha Middleton of Media City Ballet. Her scripts have received option agreement contracts from producers, and her stageplay 'King of Trinidad' placed in the Top 20 out of 1,200 entries at the 2007 Young National Playwrights Competition in New York. She later directed a staged reading of 'King of Trinidad' at the Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre in Burbank, CA. In addition to her writing, Carly has applied her art skills to character design and storyboarding. She has 4 years of experience in stage combat, has choreographed an ensemble sword battle, and appeared as a featured pirate swordfighter in an independent film short based on Peter Pan. She has worked in stage management and directing at the Newport Performing Arts Center (including her own play, 'Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Unbound'), and has also directed short films including a music video for Neil Gaiman's song 'The Problem with Saints', featured on several websites including both Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer's blogs (over 10,000 views on Youtube). Her goal is to be a full-time writer-director, utilizing her knowledge and love of storytelling to create enduring fictional worlds. |
Audrey Bryann Young
Audrey is a professional, classically trained dancer with 15 years of experience, as well as an agency-represented theatrical actress and an artist proficient in multiple types of media.
She has performed in numerous stage productions, including Ballet Hawaii’s 2006 production of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at the Honolulu Blaisdell, with principal dancers Vanessa Zahorian (San Francisco Ballet) and José Manuel Carreño (American Ballet Theatre). Audrey was lead dancer for several ballets: ‘Shiver’, a senior dance project at the University of Hawaii at Hilo; ‘Accoladis’, ‘The Cat and the Witch’ and ‘The Little Match Girl’, as a company dancer for Media City Ballet (projects directed & choreographed by Natasha Middleton). She has also performed several solo pieces, including one she choreographed. As an actress, Audrey has appeared in a stageplay, a university student film, and several shorts, including a music video for Neil Gaiman’s song ‘The Problem with Saints’. Her goal is to choreograph dance sequences for feature films, TV and theatre. She is also interested in dramatic acting roles that require emotional depth and characterization. |
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Unbound
"Her name was Mary Shelley, and this is her tale... not the one she wrote, but the one she lived."
Genre: historical drama Writing prodigy Mary runs away with her lover, the radical free-love poet and science enthusiast Percy Shelley, and Mary's naive aspiring-starlet stepsister tags along. They end up at the retreat of Lord Byron, a capricious bad-boy celebrity for whom Claire is a groupie - together, they form a group of intellectuals who call themselves 'The Elect'. When Byron issues a challenge to write a frightening story, Mary weaves their personalities, and her own tragic experiences, into a literary patchwork - but her creation also foreshadows things to come, for the very people who have given her inspiration will become sources of heartbreak...and tragedy. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Unbound is an original stageplay written by Carly Bryann Young, based on real-life events from the early 1800's. A stage reading was performed for the members of the GRT (Group Repertory Theatre) in Burbank, California on St. Patricks' day 2014. The World Premiere was a full production performed on the mainstage Alice Silverman Theatre at the Newport Performing Arts Center in Newport, Oregon under the direction of Carly Bryann Young (August 15-24, 2014). |
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King of Trinidad
"He doesn't care what size his dominion is, just as long as he's King of it."
Genre: historical dramedy
An eccentric French nobleman proclaims himself king of a derelict 4-mile wide island, only to have it seized for use as a cable station.
King of Trinidad is an original stageplay by Carly Bryann Young. It is based on the real-life events of James Harden-Hickey (photo on the left is of a real stamp for James' island kingdom). The script placed in the Top 20 of the 2007 Young National Playwrights Competition in New York.
Genre: historical dramedy
An eccentric French nobleman proclaims himself king of a derelict 4-mile wide island, only to have it seized for use as a cable station.
King of Trinidad is an original stageplay by Carly Bryann Young. It is based on the real-life events of James Harden-Hickey (photo on the left is of a real stamp for James' island kingdom). The script placed in the Top 20 of the 2007 Young National Playwrights Competition in New York.
| King of Trinidad - original stageplay by Carly Bryann Young |
Away From the Sun
"A custody battle between the living and the dead..."
Genre: ghost story, gothic faerietale
A young girl with a deadly aversion to sunlight runs away from her superstitious stepmother, only to be held hostage by ghosts from her father’s past.
Away from the Sun is an original stageplay written by Carly Bryann Young. It is the combination of a Tim Burton-style ghost story and a Grimm’s faerietale, and takes place in a countryside estate during the late 1700s.
Genre: ghost story, gothic faerietale
A young girl with a deadly aversion to sunlight runs away from her superstitious stepmother, only to be held hostage by ghosts from her father’s past.
Away from the Sun is an original stageplay written by Carly Bryann Young. It is the combination of a Tim Burton-style ghost story and a Grimm’s faerietale, and takes place in a countryside estate during the late 1700s.
| Away from the Sun - original stageplay by Carly Bryann Young |
Changelings, The Webseries
"Every faerietale you’ve ever heard… is real."
Genre: action-adventure, post-apocalyptic fantasy
When the human realm is invaded by faerietale creatures, an escaped human slave-warrior and a runaway Faerie princess must work together to end the conflict.
Changelings is an original webseries written by Carly Bryann Young.
Genre: action-adventure, post-apocalyptic fantasy
When the human realm is invaded by faerietale creatures, an escaped human slave-warrior and a runaway Faerie princess must work together to end the conflict.
Changelings is an original webseries written by Carly Bryann Young.
| Changelings season 1 - original webseries by Carly Bryann Young |
| Changelings - the novelization by Carly Bryann Young |
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Sample Adaptations
My desire is to take on adaptation assignments for big-budget, commercial action-adventure tentpole films - the PDF documents below are adaptations of known works that I use as writing samples. The rights to these projects belong to their respective copyright holders.
Note: some of the script files contain outdated contact info on the title pages - please contact us only via email at [email protected].
for any questions, comments or inquiries you might have!
Note: some of the script files contain outdated contact info on the title pages - please contact us only via email at [email protected].
for any questions, comments or inquiries you might have!
'Sandman' is a dark fantasy graphic novel series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics/Vertigo.
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'A Princess of Mars' is a planetary adventure-fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, book one of the series. This script is the first of a projected trilogy, which will include 'Gods of Mars' and 'Warlord of Mars'.
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'Shadow of the Colossus' is an action-adventure fantasy platforming videogame created by Fumito Ueda, developed by Team Ico, and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. This script includes elements of two other Fumito Ueda/Team Ico videogames: 'Ico' and 'The Last Guardian.'
| Shadow of the Colossus - feature adaptation by Carly Bryann Young |
