Comedy Writing
Original and television spec writing samples available upon request.
Frankie is currently in active development on the following projects:
DROP DEAD – Comedy Pilot
DROP DEAD, an original dark comedy pilot written and created by Frankie Campisano.
Accolades for DROP DEAD:
First Place Winner – Best Screenplay – Feel the Reel International Film Festival (Aug 2022)
Award Winner – Best Dark Comedy Teleplay, Georgia Comedy Film Festival (2022)
Finalist – Great American Script Contest (2022)
Finalist – Peachtree Village International Film Festival (2022)
Finalist – Best Dark Comedy Screenplay, Houston Comedy Film Festival (2022)
Semi-Finalist – Creative World Awards (2023)
Semi-Finalist – Laugh or Die Comedy Fest (2023)
Semi-Finalist – Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition (2023)
Semi-Finalist – Emerging Screenwriters Comedy Screenplay Competition (2022)
Semi-Finalist – Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards (Summer 2022)
Quarter-Finalist – Stage32 New Voices in Animation Screenwriting Contest (2022)
Quarter-Finalist – Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2022)
Quarter-Finalist – Creative Screenwriting TV Pilot Screenplay Competition (2022)
Quarter-Finalist – New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition (2022)
Quarter-Finalist – Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards (Season 7)
Quarter-Finalist – Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards (Season 7)
Official Selection – Women’s Comedy Film Festival in Atlanta (2023)
Official Selection – International Cannabis & Hemp Film Festival (2023)
Official Selection – Script Summit Screenplay Contest (2022)
Official Selection – Atlanta Comedy Film Festival (2022)
Official Selection – Yucca Valley Film Festival (2022)
SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT – Short Film
SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT is an odyssey in the the world of fast food secret menus and basement beauty pageants. An experimental comedy short inspired by Adult Swim’s INFOMERCIALS.
SMBP is currently on its festival run.
FINALIST, BEST HORROR COMEDY FILM – OREGON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (2024)
FINALIST, BEST STUDENT FILM – OREGON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (2024)
FINALIST, BEST COMEDY SHORT (USA) – ALTFF ALTERNATIVE FILM FESTIVAL (2024)
OFFICIAL SELECTION, COMEDY – SUNSCREEN FILM FESTIVAL (2024)
HONOURABLE MENTION, EXPERIMENTAL FILM – HASTINGS ROCKS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (2024)
INTERLUDE – Comic Book Limited Series
Cover Art for INTERLUDE #1. Art by Brian Mendez. INTERLUDE follows non-binary runaway Roz Yada on a trek across the American West after selling their soul to a demon. Along the way, they’re pursued by a cyborg space lizard bounty hunter, a trigger happy waitress, and a whole mess of government agents.
CREEPS, INC. – Ongoing Comic Book / Animated Series
Co-written by Steve Autore, Art by Evan Burdett. Fired from his dream job at CREEPS, INC., a washed-up hometown hero recruits his former best friend to start their own paranormal agency and restore his reputation. Key art above, cold open below.
Spec Scripts
JOE PERA TALKS WITH YOU – “JOE PERA TAKES YOU TO THE DENTIST”
RICK AND MORTY – “THE LONGEST RICK”
I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE – “AMERICAN RETAIL FAMILY”
Frankie Doesn’t Review Movies
Frankie Doesn’t Review Movies is satirical column published by The Edge magazine, masquerading as movie reviews.
Doctor’s Orders
Doctor’s Orders is a weekly satirical humor column written by Frankie Campisano and Lauryl Fischer and originally published by The Pendulum both online and in print. The Pendulum was acquired by Elon New Network in 2016.
Year One:
Post-Study Abroad Distress Syndrome
Elon’s Addiction to Construction
What to Do When Your Friends Abandon You for Greek Life
Tall-Tale Telling Tour Guides
How To Spend Your Gap Semester and Lose Your Journalistic Integrity in One Fell Swoop
In Memory of Squirrels Past
How to Become a Meme and Influence People
Fighting Early On-Set Senioritis
Fear of Missing Out on Spring Convocation
Navigating the Job Market
Health and Wellness, Wealth and Hellness
Economic Diversity: Who Needs It?
In Registration and Food Trucks, You Win or You Die
An Open Letter to Kanye Omari West
Prescribing The Ultimate End of Year Bucket List
Year Two:
Elon University life as a First-Year vs. as a Senior
Get Your Hours Checked, Einstein Bagels
Procrastination: It Happens to All of Us
Andy Grammer Cancels Elon Homecoming Concert: Is This Grammergate?
Elon’s Technology Needs an Upgrade
Voter Registration and You
Weekend at Joaquin’s
A State Fair to Remember
Don’t be a Halloweenie
Registration Games
Go Fund Yourself
Additional Published Credits
“Pet Peeves (Free to a Good Home)” – Colonnades Art & Literary Journal (2015)
“Television Courtroom” – Collision Magazine (Spring 2016)
“El Niño” – Visions Magazine (Spring 2016)
“SuperNOVA” – Teen Ink Magazine (2012)
“The Trees” – Teen Ink Magazine (2011)
“Dog Souls (Jesus in Aisle Three)” Winner, Honorable Mention 2015 NC State poetry contest judged by National Book Award nominee Patrick Phillips.
Way back in 2012, Frankie wrote and self-published their first novel, “PROJECT NOVA“, a 120,000+ word action-packed psychological thriller. The novel is no longer publicly available for purchase, but if you ask nicely, they’ll give you a copy so you can laugh about it together.
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