Teresa Sullivan(III)
- Writer
An agent once described Teresa as "Jackie O meets Dave Barry, with just a touch of dirty Chelsea Handler." But if it was up to Teresa, she'd say she's more like J.K. Simmons in the Farmers Insurance commercials, "I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two."
Born in Scotland and raised in New Jersey, Teresa zigzagged all across the country in eighteen moves with her husband, Tim, a 2-Star Coast Guard Admiral, now retired, and their four children. She's earned a black belt in Taekwondo, worked in Micronesia for a CDC Epidemiologist, stumbled across still-live WWII bombs in the Saipanese jungle, entertained top brass and heads of foreign governments and lived to tell (write) the tales.
Since home was where the military sent her, the stage and screen had to wait, but the writing wouldn't. So, Teresa filled those years with newspaper and magazine writing, (TIME, The San Francisco Chronicle, Army/Navy/Air Force Times) to name a few.
Back on the mainland, Teresa penned two award-winning plays at the Eugene O'Neill Theater in Connecticut. She wrote comedy for theater troupes and had comedy sketches produced off-Broadway.
The day her husband left active duty was the day Teresa was accepted into the prestigious UCLA Master of Screenwriting program. She aced the challenge with a record number of productions including the University's first streaming drama pilot, Doubleblind. Teresa won a Samuel Goldwyn Award and a Producers Caucus Award for her work as creator and co-writer for this project.
She was a contributing writer to the anthology, Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (Netflix) produced by James Franco's Elysium Bandini Studios. She has two produced shorts, Lucky Day and Claws, the latter which she both wrote and directed.
Teresa has optioned her original comedy feature, Stewardess, which pokes fun at the deplorable lack of civility in the airlines and has completed two adaptations -Ten Hours until Dawn by Michael Tougias, and The Dodger, based on the book, "Lost in the Sun" by Wallace Wasinack, the true story of Roy Gleason, the only MLB player to earn a World Series Championship ring and a Purple Heart in Vietnam.
Teresa created and developed , (2022) a drama series based on the life of the hugely popular 1950's first Late-Night host, Faye Emerson, a TV pioneer that time and television history forgot.
It's been many years since Teresa, with tears in her eyes left her home in Teaneck, New Jersey, but she gets to revisit that special time and that special place in her play, "The Beatle Club," recently produced in Virginia. Set in New Jersey in the summer of '65 when the Beatles were coming to New York, it was one of those watershed moments that everyone old enough remembers. The play highlights the fragility of those young, innocent dreamers wanting nothing more than a ticket to Shea Stadium and the gut-wrenching effects that war, any and every war, can have on a family's story.
Born in Scotland and raised in New Jersey, Teresa zigzagged all across the country in eighteen moves with her husband, Tim, a 2-Star Coast Guard Admiral, now retired, and their four children. She's earned a black belt in Taekwondo, worked in Micronesia for a CDC Epidemiologist, stumbled across still-live WWII bombs in the Saipanese jungle, entertained top brass and heads of foreign governments and lived to tell (write) the tales.
Since home was where the military sent her, the stage and screen had to wait, but the writing wouldn't. So, Teresa filled those years with newspaper and magazine writing, (TIME, The San Francisco Chronicle, Army/Navy/Air Force Times) to name a few.
Back on the mainland, Teresa penned two award-winning plays at the Eugene O'Neill Theater in Connecticut. She wrote comedy for theater troupes and had comedy sketches produced off-Broadway.
The day her husband left active duty was the day Teresa was accepted into the prestigious UCLA Master of Screenwriting program. She aced the challenge with a record number of productions including the University's first streaming drama pilot, Doubleblind. Teresa won a Samuel Goldwyn Award and a Producers Caucus Award for her work as creator and co-writer for this project.
She was a contributing writer to the anthology, Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (Netflix) produced by James Franco's Elysium Bandini Studios. She has two produced shorts, Lucky Day and Claws, the latter which she both wrote and directed.
Teresa has optioned her original comedy feature, Stewardess, which pokes fun at the deplorable lack of civility in the airlines and has completed two adaptations -Ten Hours until Dawn by Michael Tougias, and The Dodger, based on the book, "Lost in the Sun" by Wallace Wasinack, the true story of Roy Gleason, the only MLB player to earn a World Series Championship ring and a Purple Heart in Vietnam.
Teresa created and developed , (2022) a drama series based on the life of the hugely popular 1950's first Late-Night host, Faye Emerson, a TV pioneer that time and television history forgot.
It's been many years since Teresa, with tears in her eyes left her home in Teaneck, New Jersey, but she gets to revisit that special time and that special place in her play, "The Beatle Club," recently produced in Virginia. Set in New Jersey in the summer of '65 when the Beatles were coming to New York, it was one of those watershed moments that everyone old enough remembers. The play highlights the fragility of those young, innocent dreamers wanting nothing more than a ticket to Shea Stadium and the gut-wrenching effects that war, any and every war, can have on a family's story.
