Danielle Weinberg

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

Writer, producer, and director Danielle Weinberg won The Script Lab's 2024 Free Screenplay Contest with her feature screenplay COASTAL WATCH, which placed first out of more than 15,000 scripts. She recently sold an original romcom feature script, and her play MURDER, PARTY OF TEN was featured in the 2023 New Works Festival of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company. Danielle’s directorial debut is the sci-fi short film INVASION ’53, starring Jeffrey Combs. The film will have its world premiere at the Oscar-qualifying Cinequest Film Festival. She is currently in development on several independent features.

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 worked in development for Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (STAR TREK, SLEEPY HOLLOW), 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 - COASTAL WATCH - 2025

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.

SCALPEL'S EDGE

(Feature)

To pay for his mother's nursing care, a cash-strapped medical resident moonlights as a doctor for criminals but finds himself trapped in a ruthless world he may never escape.

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