SCRIPT 2: DOUBLE WEDDING

BIO:
Chriselle is a host of the Podcast “Write On! With Chriselle Almeida” that features her own scripted fictional writing. It airs on Rukus Avenue Radio in partnership with I Heart Radio. Chriselle also is a passionate D.E.I trainer with The Nova Collective.

CHRISELLE ALMEIDA was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She has a BFA in Acting from the University of Connecticut and received a full scholarship towards her MFA in Acting from UCLA. Chriselle has primarily worked as an actor. Career highlights include The Big Bang Theory, Sex and the City 2, The Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy, Shameless, and most recently, Never Have I Ever.

SCREENPLAYS:
1.SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES AT THE GYNECOLOGIST
Short Film/One Act Play
"A gynecologist’s office manned by Viola with visits from Shakespeare’s tragic women, each with their own issues."
ACCOLADES:
*Best Feature Screenplay, Wide Screen Film Festival Toronto, Honorable Mention, 2024
*Open-Door Playhouse, Podcast, Produced, 2022
*Coverfly, The Red List, #7 Comedy Short, Jan 2022
*ScreenCraft Film Fund, Quarter Finalist, 2022
*Table Read My Screenplay Competition, Austin Film Festival, Top 10 Finalist, 2021
*New York Script Awards, Best First-Time Screen Writer Short, Winner, 2021
*Best Feature Screenplay, Wide Screen Film Festival Toronto, Honorable Mention, 2024
*Tuesday@9 LA, Selected Script, Staged Reading, 2021
*Goa Short Film Festival, India, Official Selection, 2021
*Arkadia Studio Screenwriting Contest, Finalist, 2021
*Festival Angaelica, Pasadena, Featured Script, 2021
*Noble International Film Festival, India, Selected Script, 2021
*Station House Reading Series, Hollywood, Zoom Reading, 2021
*Hollyshots Film Festival, Hollywood, Script Semi-Finalist, 2020
*UK Film Festival, London, Script Top 30 Finalist, 2020
*One Act Festival, The Theatre Project, Featured Playwright, 2020
*Pacific North West Playwrights Festival, Featured Playwright, 2020
*Breakthrough Reading Series, Hollywood, Staged Reading, 2019

2. KARMA IS A BITCH
TV Pilot Dramedy, 1 Hour
"Karma, our Indian-American protagonist, has a strong sense of justice and decides to open a Revenge for Hire Business. With her close friends and neighbors, all with their own special skill sets, this band of misfits comes together to take down the bad guys. With Karma's mysterious past, it seems like there may also be super powers involved."
*Tuesday@9 LA, Selected Script Reading, 2021
*Station House Reading Series, Hollywood, Zoom Reading, 2021
*Noble International Film Festival, India, Selected Script, 2021
*Hollywood Hills, Private Staged Reading, 2019

3.FLASHBACK HIGH
TV Pilot (1 Hour Single Cam Comedy)
"A brown woman in a Connecticut town, gets a second chance to live through high school when a wish she makes on New Year's Eve comes true."
*Noble International Film Festival, India, Selected Script, 2021
*Breakthrough Reading Series, Broadwater Theatre, Hollywood, Reading, 2022

4.SIBLINGS
TV Pilot Sitcom, 1/2 Hour, Multi Cam
"The lives of three grown sibling roommates are turned upside down when their traditional Indian mother, who is getting a divorce, decides to move in with them."
*Tuesday@9 LA/Fountain Theatre Hollywood, Selected Script, Staged Reading, 2022
*Noble International Film Festival, India, Selected Script, 2021
*Script Winner, Tagore International Film Festival, India, 2021
*Breakthrough Reading Series, Hollywood Reading, 2021

Chriselle is currently working on adapting the novel, "Skin" by the late author, Margaret Mascarenhas, a dark drama based on true past historic events blended with mythology from India and Africa.After her grandmother's stroke, Pagan, an American journalist and cross cultural hybrid, flies to Goa, India. As Pagan digs into her family history, she discovers, to her horror, that her ancestors made their fortune in the African slave trade. After centuries of these disturbing facts lying buried, Pagan uncovers her true identity AND the secrets of her heritage that lie under her skin. An engrossing tapestry of diasporic tales by women, spanning three continents and several generations, Skin ultimately tells the story of the magical bond between Mothers and Daughters.