Danielle Weinberg

Attorney: Mark S. Temple, (310) 888-0044, mst@entatty.com

A published author since the third grade, Danielle recently sold an original romcom script. Her feature screenplay COASTAL WATCH placed first out of more than 15,000 scripts in The Script Lab's 2024 TSL Free Screenplay Contest. Danielle's feature screenplay IRL was named to The Best of the Independent Writers' Caucus in 2024, and her play MURDER, PARTY OF TEN was featured in the 2023 New Works Festival of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company. She is the writer, producer, and director of the upcoming sci-fi short film INVASION '53, starring Jeffrey Combs.

Danielle is a graduate of the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University and earned an M.F.A. in Feature Film Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She has worked for Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (STAR TREK, SLEEPY HOLLOW), and developed projects for Johnson Production Group, Orlando Jones and Legion of Creatives. Her influences include Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, and Steven Spielberg. Danielle is passionate about classic Hollywood, Sherlock Holmes, Disneyland, swimming, Bing Crosby, the Anaheim Ducks, and the Washington Capitals.

Honors & Awards

Winner of The Script Lab's 2024 TSL Free Screenplay Contest - COASTAL WATCH - 2024

The Best of the IWC - IRL - 2024

non-WGA

Female, 40+

COASTAL WATCH

(Feature)

In the vein of Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW: A recently traumatized teen witnesses a murder in the beach house across the street, but when no one believes her, she seeks out the answers herself and finds her own life in jeopardy.

IRL

(Feature – comps: ROXANNE, YOU'VE GOT MAIL)

"Cyrano" in the world of online gaming: Romantic but insecure war vet Landon helps his hunky best friend win the heart of an amazing girl — a player in Landon’s online video game — even though Landon is in love with her!

CURIOSITY

(Pilot – comps: CASTLE, VERONICA MARS)

Sherlock Holmes with a sci-fi twist: An outgoing young undergrad teams with a brilliant but socially inept A.I. researcher to solve baffling murder cases — and gradually comes to realize that her genius partner is the world's first android.

Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Procedural, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age, YA

Female, 40+

unrepped