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Brian T. Arnold

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2020 First Look Project - Winner (Horror & Thriller)

The End

2020 First Look Project - Winner (Drama)

Brian T. Arnold is a screenwriter, actor, and director. His feature screenplays have won the Tracking Board Launch Pad Competition, Best Thriller and Best Drama in the Script Pipeline First Look Competition, and Best Thriller in the Shore Scripts Competition. He’s also placed in the Top 50 of the Nicholl Fellowship and the Top 20 of the Roadmap Route One Screenplay Competition, and he’s been featured on the Hit List and the Young & Hungry List.

Open Houses, a comedic web series that Arnold co-wrote, produced, and starred in, was featured on Funny or Die, Comedy Cake, and Stareable. All episodes are available at http://www.openhousestheseries.com.

Arnold studied improv and sketch comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade and The Groundlings, wrote and performed for the sketch team Hot Lunch at iO West, and wrote for the CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase.

You can also see him in the background of various movies and tv shows, trying not to pull focus.

Arnold was born and raised in Bluefield, West Virginia and studied Broadcast Journalism at Concord University. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is trying his best.

Success Stories

2x Winner Secures Manager and Agency Rep

March 15, 2021

First Look Project winner Brian T. Arnold (The End) found rep with John Zaozirny and Kate Sharp at Bellevue following Pipeline introductions, and shortly thereafter signing with agents Sheryl Petersen, Adam Perry, and Halle Mariner at IAG. In 2023, Brian was hired to pen a reboot of the 1980s cult classic Electric Dreams. He was also […]

Reboot of 80s Cult Classic Written by Pipeline Winner

October 10, 2023

Two-time winner of the First Look Project, Brian T. Arnold is adapting a reboot of the 80s cult classic Electric Dreams. Paul Davidson set to direct. Read the blurb on Variety.

Script Pipeline Writers Dominate the Black List

December 15, 2022

Multiple Script Pipeline writers have made The Black List over the years, from 2021-2022, we had a streak ... In 2021: Screenwriting Contest Winner Cauliflower by Daniel Jackson, which secured the #1 spot, First Look Project winner The End by Brian T. Arnold, and It Was You by First Look Project finalist Will Yu. In 2022: Screenwriting Finalist Pure by Catherine Schetina, which […]

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