
Sean Collins-Smith is a former midnight crime journalist, journalism professor and nurtures a life-long obsession with Bruce Springsteen. He’s lived in Richmond, Virginia, for all of his 30 years, where he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University after studying cinema and broadcast journalism.
Sean started entering teleplay contests in 2017, when he became a finalist in the Austin Film Festival. Since then, Sean has been in a finalist in the Atlanta Film Festival, the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Competition, and won the 2018 ISA Fast-Track Fellowship, which connected him to his eventual manager, Jewerl Ross of Silent R Management.
Sean and his wife are moving to Los Angeles in November in pursuit of a television writing career with nothing more than four pilot scripts, two cats and a dream of being a showrunner.
In “Badlands,” Bruce Springsteen declares:
“Poor man wanna be rich,
Rich man wanna be king,
And a king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything,
I wanna go out tonight,
I wanna find out what I got.”
For Sean, it’s time to cross the country and find out what he’s got.
The 20th Annual Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest is searching for extraordinary writers with original television pilots or unproduced indie series scripts.
The 25th Annual Script Pipeline Screenwriting Contest is searching for extraordinary writers with feature screenplays across all genres.
The 14th Annual First Look Project searches for higher-concept material across MULTIPLE categories for film and TV, introducing select writers to reps and producers.
Well. What’s old is new again … It’s been over 15 years since Evan Daugherty (2008 Screenwriting winner) sold Snow White and the Huntsman to Universal—in what is still one of the biggest spec sales ($3.5m) from an unproduced writer in Hollywood history. So why not another fantasy script in 2026? Paramount Primal picked up […]
Scott Wagner, winner of the First Look Project (Drama) with his screenplay Intern of the Year signed with manager Aubrey Morgan at Adventure Media in 2026. Pipeline execs called Intern of the Year, loosely based on Scott's own experiences working in a hospital, as "one of the "most riveting dramas we've ever reviewed." The Pipeline […]
Screenwriting Competition winner Untitled Home Invasion Romance (formerly Getaway) was produced in the summer of 2024 released in 2026 and is now on streaming. Jason Biggs (American Pie, Orange is the New Black) makes his directorial debut with the crime/comedy. Stars Anna Conkle (Pen15), Arturo Castro (Broad City), Meaghan Rath (Hawaii Five-o), and Justin H. […]
