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Will DeWitt

Screenwriter & Storyteller

Features, TV specs, and interactive fiction — from eldritch buddy-comedies to branching worlds where the reader holds the pen.

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2× Semifinalist — Emerging Screenwriters Top 100 — Table Read My Screenplay, Hollywood at AFM 4× Quarterfinalist — ScreenCraft, Page Turner & more
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The Scripts

Six scripts, three genres, one rule: every page earns the next. Read the opening pages right here — full scripts available on request.

Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi • Original Feature

Dick & Leo Fight a Monster

103 pages2024Feature

During the 1972 Moscow Summit, President Nixon and General Secretary Brezhnev must set aside the Cold War and team up when an eldritch horror, summoned by a rogue Henry Kissinger, threatens to consume both superpowers. Part buddy-comedy, part cosmic nightmare, all heart.

Semifinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure (2024)
Semifinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2022)
Top 100, Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood at AFM (2021)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Action & Adventure (2021)
Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Competition (2023)
Quarterfinalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices (2024)
Quarterfinalist, Page Turner Feature GENRE (2023)
Dick & Leo Fight a Monster••PP. 1–3
NIXON
What in FDR's broken legs was that?
KISSINGER
It was Polio.
NIXON
The hell are you... That was polio?
KISSINGER
FDR's affliction. It was polio.
Nixon looks bewildered at Kissinger.
NIXON
I know that damned cripple had polio, Henry! What was that? Did they lose control of one of their freak experiments or something?!
KISSINGER
Mr. President...
Nixon is spiraling now. Kissinger simply nods his head toward Brezhnev, who has been staring at Nixon throughout.
NIXON
Oh, what does he know, Henry? He can't speak English!
BREZHNEV
I can assure you, Dick, that whatever that was, it certainly isn't ours.
Nixon stops cold, wide eyed at the old Russian speaking fluent English, before furiously turning back to Kissinger.
NIXON
Oh, what the fuck, he speaks English now?
BREZHNEV
I learned when I was 12.
NIXON
Then why the hell have we been talking through translators this whole time, you mother fucker?
BREZHNEV
I find your enemies speak more freely when they think they can't be understood.
Nixon storms up out of his seat and rushes at Brezhnev, who stands up to meet him. The Secret Service and Devyatki agents both rush in, some grabbing their principals, some pointing guns at each other. Everyone shouting.
A loud SQUAWK pierces through the shouting, shaking the room and silencing everyone.
Continue reading the full 103-page script upon request
Action / Adventure / Horror • Original Feature

The Lantern Society and the Portal of Power

46 pages2025Feature (Second Draft)

In 1920s San Francisco, a teenage thief is recruited by The Lantern Society, a secret occult order, after a deadly encounter with an ancient evil. As a shadowy cult called the Pallid Mask races to open a portal between worlds, an unlikely crew of misfits must infiltrate a gangster’s mansion and stop a ritual that could damn them all.

The Lantern Society••PP. 1–3
EXT. MANSION PERIMETER WALL - NIGHT
Located right off San Francisco Bay, a large, early 1900s-style mansion sits afloat in a sea of fog, islands of manicured lawn and maintained walkways lit by lamps here and there.
A gangster, in desperate need of a shave and on his nth cigarette, shotgun slung over his shoulder, rambles past. He doesn't see a thing.
A beat passes before two figures fall from the top of the wall and land gracefully on the ground.
One of them, EDITH (16), in black, her short haircut obviously her own doing, hawk-like eyes trained by a hard life to catch everything, looks at the guard, then her watch.
EDITH
(sotto)
He's thirty minutes early.
ARSENY (60s), also in black, old, grumpy, portly, but moving as if he could still feature as an acrobat in a traveling circus, comes up beside her.
ARSENY
Why am I not surprised?
EDITH
I'm telling you, Arseny. These guys might be off by five minutes, but 30?
ARSENY
They maybe increased patrols.
EDITH
For what? We haven't seen any cars come in.
Arseny pauses, almost sniffs the air. His eyes narrow.
ARSENY
They must've gotten a shipment in. It is ripe for the picking.
EDITH
I don't like it.
Continue reading the full 46-page script upon request
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror • Original Feature

Lost Carcosa

42 pages2019Feature

When a 100,000-year-old alien temple is unearthed on a distant colony world, a shrewd UNE diplomat and a military captain are drawn into a web of political intrigue, ancient mysteries, and cosmic dread, all spiraling toward an incident that could shatter humanity’s fragile interstellar peace.

Lost Carcosa••PP. 1–3
Strange is the night where black stars rise, / And strange moons circle through the skies, / But stranger still is Lost Carcosa.
INT. TEMPLE - DAY
SUPER: Aquila, Aquilan Republic
A dusty chamber, it could be Egypt if it weren't for the disturbing statue featured prominently against one of the walls. An archeologist, JAMES, kneels before it in silent communion, unflinching, unmoving, simply staring into what appear to be the statue's eyes.
After a beat that JUST pushes the borders of uncomfortable, the archeologist BLINKS.
JONAHS
Yes.
James stands, revealing a SPADE gripped in one of his hands. An ASSISTANT walks in.
ASSISTANT
Hey Dr. Jonahs, we've got lunch outside.
INT. TEMPLE - LATER
The DIRECTOR and other archeologists walk into the dusty chamber. They falter.
DIRECTOR
Jesus...
James is revealed to be kneeling in front of the statue again, exactly as he was, but this time COVERED in blood. The body of the assistant has been splayed in front of the statue in some arcane ritual.
Continue reading the full 42-page script upon request
Comedy • Spec Script

Ted Lasso: “Cheese Hill”

39 pages2020TV Spec (Half-Hour)

When Roy Kent reluctantly reveals his guilty pleasure (cheese rolling), Ted seizes the opportunity for a team-building day on the hills of Gloucestershire. But as the team tumbles downhill (literally), Rebecca must confront Rupert’s unwelcome appearance, and the real bonding happens somewhere between the bruises and the finish line.

Ted Lasso: “Cheese Hill”••PP. 1–3
ROY
Well, tell you what. This weekend, I'm going to...
Roy looks around and leans in conspiratorially. Ted and Sam give each other a look but mirror Roy.
ROY (CONT'D)
(sotto)
My favorite British event. It's... Not exactly cool, so I don't tell anyone about it, but you two can come with me if you want. Experience something really British.
TED
(sotto)
How British?
ROY
(sotto)
You'll want to invade half the world for tea.
TED
Well, to get me to want to do that, it ought to be REAL British! What is it?
ROY
(sotto)
Cheese rolling.
SAM
(sotto)
What is cheese rolling?
ROY
(sotto)
Well, everyone lines up at the top of a tall hill and they release a big wheel of cheese and everyone chases it down the hill. The person that catches the wheel of cheese gets to keep it.
Continue reading the full 39-page script upon request
Comedy • Original Pilot

Camp PHUN

32 pagesTV Pilot (Half-Hour)

When serial screw-up Drew Birch finally lands in front of a judge ready to lock him up, his mother makes a courtroom scene and an offer: let Drew serve his sentence at Camp PHUN, the family summer camp he hated as a kid. The kids might just survive him. He might even grow up.

Camp PHUN••PP. 1–3
INT. COURTHOUSE - DAY
A JUDGE (65), very judge-like, deadpan, sits in his chair, adjusts his bifocals, looks at a few sheets of paper.
JUDGE
Well, Mr. Birch, I can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like this in my 20 years on the bench -
Standing in front of the judge is DREW BIRCH (26) but still dressed like a frat boy, man-child who hasn’t thought about another person’s feelings possibly ever.
DREW
Thank you, your honor. I really think the incident allowed me to really bring out my creative side in a way that I haven’t really been able to in a long time. It was really quite refreshing and I DEFINITELY don’t think it should be illegal or anything.
JUDGE (CONT’D)
NOT a compliment, Mr. Birch --
DREW
Oh! Tickets! Make it legal, charge people $14-15 a pop, we’d make money hand over fist!
JUDGE
Mr Birch! Now, what you did might not have caused much damage, but it appears to be the latest in a long string of minor offenses. Community service does not seem to have rectified this behavior so I’m afraid what might work is a short sentence behind bars. I’m thinking six months might -
Suddenly, from the benches in the back, a VOICE.
VOICE
Objection, your honor!
JUDGE
(Nonplussed)
That’s not how that works -
A woman dressed like she’s incognito in a 50s noir film, scarf over hair, large sunglasses, stands up, OLIVIA BIRCH (59), more money than sense, but her heart is in the right place.
OLIVIA
I say again, objection!
DREW
Oh no -
JUDGE
(Nonplussed)
Ma’am this is a courthouse -
OLIVIA (CONT’D)
This young man just hasn’t been given the opportunity to learn from his mistakes, your honor!
DREW
Mom, stop -
OLIVIA (CONT’D)
Of course he didn’t learn anything from cleaning up trash from the side of the highway! What he needs is an opportunity to touch the lives of children and maybe - along the way - maybe they’ll touch him as well!
DREW
Oh God...
JUDGE
(STILL Nonplussed)
Ma’am, who are you? And what are you doing making a scene in my courtroom?
OLIVIA
My name is Olivia Birch, your honor! And I’m the owner of Camp PHUN!
JUDGE
Olivia Birch is it? And what do you propose we do with your son instead?
OLIVIA
I propose that, instead of wasting the tax payers’ money, you let Drew serve out his sentence at Camp PHUN, making a difference in the lives of kids!
DREW
Oh no, your honor, please. I’ll take a year -
The judge looks back and forth between the two. Sees Olivia’s exuberance and Drew’s absolute horror at the thought of spending months at camp.
END OF COLD OPEN
Continue reading the full 32-page script upon request
Sci-Fi / Action • Spec Script

The Expanse: Spec Episode

58 pages2019TV Spec (Hour-Long)

When Naomi is kidnapped by isolationist settlers on a frontier world beyond the Ring Gates, Holden’s rage threatens to ignite a full-scale conflict. As the Rocinante crew mounts a rescue against impossible odds, alliances form in unlikely places and Amos guards a secret that changes everything.

The Expanse: Spec••PP. 1–3
HOLDEN
I don't give a good god damn about rumors, Bobbie. I want Naomi out of that cage!
Amos and Alex turn around to watch the scene unfold as Bobbie starts walking after Holden.
BOBBIE
Look, Holden, I understand you want to make sure Naomi is safe, but...
A beep on the comms interrupts Bobbie and the whole crew turns toward the monitor.
ALEX
It's coming from New Amarillo.
HOLDEN
If it's Carol, I swear I'm going to nuke this God-forsaken place.
Holden pushes the button to accept the connection and the crew takes a step back when they see Naomi on the other end.
HOLDEN
Naomi!
NAOMI
Look, I don't have a lot of time, they'll be tracking this connection for sure. They've got a whole room full of alien tech, that's why they bashed me over the head and dragged me to a cell.
Continue reading the full 58-page script upon request
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Game Writing

Branching narratives where the player holds the pen. Two of the games below are playable right here, no download required.

The Timeless Library — Gamucatex
Game Writer • Gamucatex, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023–Present)

Gamucatex

Writing branching narratives and dialogue for an interactive fantasy game set in a richly imagined world that includes locations like The Timeless Library, a mystical archive where the world’s histories are recorded and guarded. Collaborating with international teams to develop character voices across multiple player paths and integrate narrative within gameplay systems.

Branching narrative flowchart
Narrative Design

Branching Narrative Architecture

Designing complex story structures where player choices carry real consequences. Building dialogue trees and narrative flowcharts that maintain cohesion across dozens of branching paths while keeping each route emotionally resonant.

Playable

The Timeless Library: Tutorial

Step into the archive where all the world’s histories are kept. A playable tutorial sequence introducing the Timeless Library and its keepers — dialogue, choices, and world all in the browser.

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Playable

Little Red Riding Hood

A branching retelling of the classic tale, built in Twine through The Narrative Department. Your choices decide how the story through the woods unfolds — and how it ends.

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“I always looked forward to whatever he wrote next because it was both entertaining and heartfelt. That’s the perfect word to describe Will and his work: heartfelt. He puts his whole heart into what he’s producing.”

Mario Mergola — The Narrative Department Cohort
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Other Work

Pocket FM

Staff Writer • Remote (2025–Present)

Localizing and adapting narrative content for western audiences in an audio format. Translating stories across cultural contexts while maintaining emotional resonance and narrative integrity.

Ghostwriting

Pandaz Media (2022–2023)

As a ghostwriter for Pandaz Media, I produced high-volume narrative content (20,000 words per week) while matching established character voices and story styles. I worked closely with international creative teams, incorporating complex revision notes from multiple stakeholders into cohesive final narratives across extended projects.

“As a ghostwriter, Will consistently demonstrated his mastery of the craft. He had the uncanny ability to bring ideas to life with his words, captivating readers and conveying the intended message with precision.”

Alona Jarden — Project Manager
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The Story So Far

Will DeWitt at Arches National Park
Arches National Park, Utah

I’ve spent my life chasing stories. As a kid, it was the sci-fi and fantasy books I devoured on bookstore floors across Texas. In college at Baylor, I turned that itch into a journalism degree, then spent a year as the sports editor for a string of small-town newspapers in the kind of middle-of-nowhere Texas that makes for great fiction even if it doesn’t always make for great living.

After a brief stint in the corporate world at Facebook (where I learned a lot about content systems and lost a small piece of my soul), I made the decision that would define the next chapter of my life: I moved to Los Angeles to pursue an MFA in Screenwriting at Pepperdine University.

That decision cracked everything open. At Pepperdine I found my voice in sci-fi, action, and genre writing, graduating in 2021 and stepping into the LA production world. I worked as a PA on sets for The Amazing Race, Samsung, Harbor Freight, and Moving Picture Institute, learning the machinery of storytelling from the ground up.

Since then, I’ve been writing full-time. My original feature Dick & Leo Fight a Monster has earned seven competition placements including multiple semifinalist honors. I’ve ghostwritten novels at a pace of 20,000 words per week. I currently write branching narratives for Gamucatex, an international game studio based in Copenhagen, and most recently joined Pocket FM as a Staff Writer, localizing and adapting content for western audiences in an audio format.

When I’m not writing, I’m probably hiking through a national park with my camera, exploring a new city, or reading whatever book I can get my hands on. I photograph everything I see. It’s another way of paying attention to the world, which is really all that storytelling is.

Washington, D.C.Current Home
Los Angeles, CAMFA & Production
TexasWhere It All Began
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Résumé

Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
May 2021 • Features, Sci-Fi, Action
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism
Baylor University, Waco, TX
May 2011 • News & Editorial
Writer CV Narrative CV Copywriter CV
Staff Writer
Pocket FM, Remote • 2025 – Present

Localizing and adapting narrative content for western audiences in an audio format. Translating stories across cultural contexts while maintaining emotional resonance and narrative integrity.

Game Writer
Gamucatex, Copenhagen, Denmark • June 2023 – Present

Collaborate with international teams to establish overarching narrative direction and story integration. Create compelling dialogue and maintain consistent voice across multiple storylines and player paths. Develop branching narratives that respond to player choices while maintaining story cohesion.

Freelance Writer
Remote • June 2022 – Present

Create diverse narrative content including scripts, story treatments, and character materials. Adapt writing style and narrative approach for different genres and target audiences.

Ghostwriter
Pandaz Media, Kfar Saba, Israel • June 2022 – May 2023

Produced high-volume content at 20,000 words per week while consistently meeting rigid deadlines. Developed compelling narratives while matching established character voices and story styles.

Production Assistant
Various Productions, Los Angeles, CA • April 2021 – July 2022

Coordinated logistics for narrative-driven productions including The Amazing Race, Samsung, Harbor Freight, and Moving Picture Institute.

Production & Development Intern
Captivate Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA • January 2019 – May 2019

Analyzed and provided detailed coverage on original script submissions. Developed and pitched original narrative concepts to studio executives.

Data Integrity Specialist
Facebook, Austin, TX • June 2017 – August 2018

Analyzed content for narrative consistency and brand voice compliance.

Media Relations Assistant
American Football Coaches Association, Waco, TX • March 2012 – February 2017

Coordinated communications and content distribution across multiple stakeholder groups.

Sports Editor
The Cameron Herald, Cameron, TX • August 2011 – February 2012

Led content creation for sports sections across multiple weekly publications.

Semifinalist — Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure (2024)
Semifinalist — Emerging Screenwriters Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2022)
Top 100 — Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood at AFM (2021)
Quarterfinalist — Emerging Screenwriters Competition (2023)
Quarterfinalist — ScreenCraft Action & Adventure (2021)
Quarterfinalist — Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices (2024)
Quarterfinalist — Page Turner Feature GENRE (2023)
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Let’s Work Together

Got a project in mind, a story that needs telling, or just want to say hello? Drop me a line and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

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