Base

Role

Writer

Male or Female?

Male

First and Last Name:

Ron Barenburg

City:

New York

About Yourself:

About You:

I have been writing screenplays for many years and had several optioned. I have written and ghostwritten scripts in many genres and ‘voices’. I am also a published poet and a playwright with two one act plays produced recently in Manhattan.
 
Below are the loglines of my available scripts,including; Shorts, TV Pilots, Made for TV Movies, and Full Length Features . Writing samples available upon request.

SHORTS

DOWNSIZED – Death of a Salesman meets Twilight Zone.

THE LAST CANDLE – A woman’s last wish surprises her priest.(GHOSTWRITTEN)

PLAY GOD – A dead sister. Twins, one a priest, the other seeking revenge. And then there’s their mother

OPTIONED

TABLES – She turned fifty, turned to online dating with a vengeance and turned around her life. A true story. (GHOSTWRITTEN)

THE ROAD THROUGH MAGGIE – Frustrated artist learns how to cope from ex-flapper.

GHOSTWRITTEN

FLEAPORT – A wacky group of characters inhabit a small town like flea market in the nineteen seventies outside of JFK. (PILOT)

GRIEF AND GRATITUDE -Based on true stories, heartbreaking, spiritual and hopeful about organ transplants and the health professionals at one Midwest hospital that deal with the donors and recipients. (PILOT)

BLOW THAT WHISTLE – Two black dudes in the hood switch from reffing basketball to reffing couples. (PILOT)

TICKETS – Three buddies scam Off Track Betting for big bucks without getting scratched. Can they score Mega bucks and win the Lottery?

POLAR SWAP – Three couples flee to the Arctic to escape impending doom.

TWISTED TRUTHS – Dad sues daughter, daddy dearest he’s not.

NAKED SUCCESS – Single mom strips to support daughter.

CHOPPERS – Chino and his boyhood buddy, Flacco, steal motorcycles, outwit the cops and run a ‘chop shop’ in the Bronx, New York City. 

ELECT THE DEAD – Environmentalists want to save the planet, while an oil exec just wants to save his ass.

THE REVENGE OF CRYSTAL – Vigilante has a whole new meaning when Crystal shows up. She’s a ‘ball buster’, really.

FULL LENGTH FEATURES

PAYBACK –  Richie Stone is an ex-cop whose lovers are dying to see him

SMALL TOWN BLUES – Honest cops, hippie chicks, corrupt police union bosses, at the ass end of the sixties, early seventies, come together in this ‘based on a true story’ action flick.

LINEAGE – Lost books of the Bible and Mission Impossible collide

SAFETY ZONE – P.I. pisses off a Columbian drug lord, finds a good friend dead, and his therapy group in fear of their lives, and that was on Monday.

DISARMING – One cop’s crusade to ban handguns divides the Nation and makes for unlikely allies on both sides.

COLLARD GREENS AND PASTA – Black teen gang runs chop shop, out races cops and outsmarts the Mob. Oh, and sends inner city kids to college.

ALIKE – Sixities anti-war icon and longest held POW are pawns in a Presidential election.

FOOTPRINTS – Divorced mid fifties guy comes out to his ex wives and kids.

CHANGES – Three middle aged couples deal with menopause, kind of.

THE GIRL IN THE PARK – A by the book female exec tries to crack the glass ceiling