HAROLD ABRAMS
SCREENWRITING
Grave Affairs
SeriesFest Special Live Read Event
SCREENWRITING
Grave Affairs
SeriesFest Special Live Read Event
SCREENWRITER
Grave Affairs
SeriesFest Special Live Read Event
MY APPROACH
I write stories about people forced to confront the parts of themselves they’ve spent a lifetime avoiding. I live for the drama, with some humor woven throughout. Heart is mandatory and unexpected twists are an exciting challenge to incorporate into my worlds.
TV SERIES
Years as a television producer taught me that there’s always another story behind the one we’re telling. Yes! I’m talking about the drama behind the scenes. I love to write about workplaces, institutions, and the people who keep them running (or destroy them), exploring what lies beneath the polished surface, where humor, heart, chaos and uncomfortable truths reveal themselves.
grave affairs
ONE HOUR TV DRAMA – A disgraced funeral planner returns home to rebuild her reputation and reclaim her dominance in the competitive — and sometimes funny — death business.
At its heart, GRAVE AFFAIRS is about reinvention. As we grow older, the mistakes that once defined us often look different through the lens of experience. Sometimes they’re failures. Sometimes they’re the very decisions that shaped who we were meant to become. Through the darkly funny and fiercely competitive death business, the series explores redemption, revenge, wisdom, and the courage to face the past before building a future.
Featured in The Denver Gazette following my Pitch-A-Thon win at SeriesFest, where GRAVE AFFAIRS was recognized as the top television pitch.
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GRAVE AFFAIRS continued its development through mentorship with Call to Adventure Media, where the pilot script and pitch deck were further refined.
LAST DANCE
ONE HOUR TV DRAMA – Two estranged sisters are thrust into a cutthroat reality TV ballroom competition, forced to face their past and navigate a world of high stakes, aggressive rivals, and simmering secrets — all under the unforgiving glare of the spotlight.
LAST DANCE is about the performances we give—both on camera and in our everyday lives. Inspired by my years as a television producer, the series pulls back the curtain on the exhilarating, exhausting world behind reality TV, where every polished moment is built on impossible deadlines, competing agendas, fragile egos, and countless unseen decisions. Beneath every seamless broadcast is controlled chaos. LAST DANCE explores the people responsible for creating that illusion, while asking what happens when the carefully crafted roles we perform—for audiences, for family, and for ourselves—begin to unravel.
FEATURE
Not every story is a television series. Some ideas deserve the intimacy and momentum of a feature film. I’ve come to love the challenge of crafting a complete emotional journey—creating characters whose paths through conflict, love, and self-discovery invite us to better understand ourselves.
CRUSHED
FEATURE FILM – A successful TV producer returns home after 20 years to move his estranged parents into assisted living, forcing him to confront the relationships he abandoned and reckon with his own expectations of reconciliation and redemption.
CRUSHED explores the crushes we never quite outgrow and the relationships that continue to influence us long after we’ve left them behind. It asks whether reconciliation is ever too late and whether coming home is less about returning to a place than rediscovering yourself.
The next story is already taking shape.
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