Script File
Icky People
1984. Grace Pickett, (16, bi-racial, adopted from birth) runs from her extreme fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah to seek out her biological parents in Las Vegas. In the hair raising search for her origins, she finds an unexpected person who she’s been wondering about her entire life - and it isn’t her ex showgirl mother or parolee father.
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Blaire BaronWriterThe Candidate, Women in Boxes,
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Genres:comedy, coming of age, dramedy
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Number of Pages:118
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Country of Origin:United States
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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CinequestSilicone Valley
October 19, 2021
Finalist
Blaire Baron is an award winning actor, writer, director. Her career spans 25 years on TV, film, stage - from avant garde Privilege (Criterion) to Penny Marshall blockbuster, A League Of Their Own, she has appeared in over 40 films and TV serie . Blaire is Founder/Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Youth Festival - an L.A. based, global youth performing arts movement, for which she's received awards from PBS and the City of L.A. Blaire takes the Shakespeare Youth Festival program to Botswana, Kenya and Mexico, where young people perform Shakespeare in Setswana, Kiswahili, Luo, Spanish and English. Blaire wrote/produced the documentary, Women In Boxes. She co-wrote, produced and co-starred in The Candidate, (award winning short '16) She won Outstanding Achievement in Playwrighting for "The Milk Meetings" (Ophelia Theatre Co, NY). Her trilogy (Outspoken, Illspoken & Unspoken) won awards at Hollywood Fringe, 2018. Her play, The Below, won New York New Works Festival.
Being adopted informs all my writing, funny or sad or somewhere in between. ICKY PEOPLE - a partially autobiographical script is a coming of age story about when adoption isn't a happily ever after ending. It is dedicated to anyone who happens to feel stuck in a family or culture where "being yourself" is not advised.