Jason Nunes

Jason is an award-winning New York-based writer and actor. His screenplay “Resurrection Men,” a winner of the AIVF Screenwriters Mentorship program with Maureen Nolan, second place for The Writer’s Place Screenplay contest, an official selection of the Queens International Film Festival, a finalist of the Acclaim Screenplay Competition, and a semi-finalist for Screenwriting Expo 4, was recently optioned. Look for the film in 2009.

His sitcom pilot script “Drunk @5” was a winner of The Screenwriter Dig with Mark Canton. His short screenplay “Mrs. Fox” was a finalist of the Queens International Screenplay Competition. His one-act “Roulette Night” won the critic’s choice award at the 2005 Samuel French One-Act Competition, his one-act “Love in the Time of Atkins” was a semi-finalist, and, last year, his one-act “Telling the Leaves” was a finalist. His short story, “Accidental Antichrist” was a finalist of the Santa Fe Writers Project.

Jason’s work has been called “Deliciously funny and revolting…”. The Slamdance Script Competition said, of his screenplay “Resurrection Men,” “…this script is an excellent embodiment of the dark comedy genre.”

Actor, Writer (Brooklyn, NY)

Working On: Exit Strategy–a new web series for Teen Nick–coming Jan 2010

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