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dan shea, grade five

@danvshea.bsky.social

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Scrawler from the holler ✍️ Dreamkatcher (Lionsgate) / AFF winner / The Ballad of Billy Lamb (novel) / 🐶🥾🚴🪕

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dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Apr 15

I wrote this thing about Appalachia, poverty, substance misuse, labor issues....& time travel.

And HOPE. Really & truly about hope.

Hit me up if you want to take a look at the deck or read the pilot.*

*Or if you happen to be @mikeroyce.bsky.social & you want to showrun it.

child standing in front of an Appalachian home

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dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · 25d

I won AFF.
It did nothing.
But I *did* get a dope-ass trophy.

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Sep 11

MSM stopped talking about Melissa Hortman's assassination within 24 hours. GOP has already determined this will be their rallying cry thru 2028, and MSM will play along per usual.

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Sep 2

This admin has already employed the WAG THE TAIL strategy, now they're gonna run the DAVE playbook.

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Aug 27

That was my problem with it. The metaphor implied was wonderful until it stopped being a metaphor and was just literally explicitly screaming itself. Glad I watched it. Never need to again.

But also: I'm glad some filmmakers can get to a place where they can take changes & make movies like this.

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Aug 21

I get such a rush from a good cleaning & checkup. I'm 10 yrs old all over again. I even make sure I get a sticker (usually Spider-Man).

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Aug 15

If you don't check trivago that guy will bite you.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Aug 14

conservatives/republicans going full on fascist with occupying cities with the military is yet another reminder to NEVER TAKE CONSERVATISM SERIOUSLY. THEIR CRITICISMS AREN'T REAL. YOU CAN'T MEET THEM HALF WAY. THEY AREN'T A SERIOUS IDEOLOGY. THEY CAN ONLY BE CRUSHED, NOT DEBATED.

thank you.

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dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Aug 13

Author waiting for response to her query email.

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Turn Reich at the next stop sign."

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Jun 19

but that's the beauty of #theatre. it's an ephemeral moment shared by performer and audience breathing the same air, sharing the same energy. it's sorta like magic.

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dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Jun 12

yer basically who I wrote my book for, N.

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James Finn Garner @jamesfinngarner.bsky.social · Jun 5

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dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · May 12

[Except for spring pollen season. And milo harvesting season. And burning season.]

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · May 12

Yeah, and I’m not dragging them. There are just so many wonderful ways of writing screenplays.

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · May 12

I'm not saying they're not right, but by these metrics

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · May 9

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · May 9

New headshot for pitch deck

#writer #screenwriter #indiefilm #movies #writing #film

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dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · May 9

I have an Austin Film Fest-winning screenplay (family coming-of-age comedy) searching for a director and/or producer. HMU if you wanna read. #indiefilm #directing #film #austinfilmfestival #screenwriting #filmmaking #movies

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · May 8

I'd like to buy a vowel.

P_ECE OF SH_T

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · May 8

And again, because someone decided to parachute in and stir the "Old People Are Why Trump Won!" line -- no. It was WHITE PEOPLE. Including a lot of younger ones. I will trust older Black folks over younger white ones any damn day, frankly.

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dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · May 7

As usual, @jamesfinngarner.bsky.social nails the issue. Great read on rejection.

I feel like he wrote this just for me lol.

The Bung & Gargle, w James Finn Garner jamesfinngarner.substack.com?utm_source=n...

The Bung & Gargle, w James Finn Garner | Substack

Humor and the writing life. Chicago. Cocktails. Monkeys. Click to read The Bung & Gargle, w James Finn Garner, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · May 3

If you see this list your getaway vehicle.

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Apr 22

"Hey there..."

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Mar 31

First read-thru for KILLDEER pre-production. #indiefilm #screenwriter #writer

dan shea, grade five @danvshea.bsky.social · Mar 24

🎶 REJECTIONNNNNN 🎶

#writing

a man is walking down a dirt road with a horse drawn plow .

ALT: a man is walking down a dirt road with a horse drawn plow .

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