As his books The Railway Series become the global TV phenomenon Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, the Reverend W. Awdry’s own career and legacy decline. Spec screenplay currently in development. First draft copyrighted in 2024. Page one rewrite registered with the WGA in 2025. SemifinalistScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Screenplay Competition 2025Creative ScreenwritingContinue reading “The Blue Engine”
Author Archives: Sean O'Connor
Singing Lessons
A music teacher learns to build meaningful relationships with his new high school choir students. Original spec screenplay that began as a class assignment for Asbury University’s Advanced Screenwriting course in spring 2014. It was heavily revised in 2019 and copyrighted in 2021. SemifinalistEmerging Screenwriters Family & Holiday Screenplay Competition 2025 Contact Sean here toContinue reading “Singing Lessons”
Rusty Steeple
A struggling church in Birmingham, Alabama investigates its own history and is forced to reckon with a complicated past. Docudrama spec screenplay currently in development. Based on a true story as depicted in the article “The Church with the Rusty Steeple” by Mark Barnard, to which Sean O’Connor Screenplays LLC acquired the rights in 2023.Continue reading “Rusty Steeple”
My Husband Shot John Lennon
After troubles in her marriage and her husband’s arrest for murder, Gloria Chapman wrestles with her relationship with God and whether to remain married to and forgive her husband. Biographical spec screenplay based on a true story as depicted in Gloria’s testimony published in Alliance Life in 2017. Copyrighted in 2022. SemifinalistPage Turner Screenplays FaithContinue reading “My Husband Shot John Lennon”
Cedarville Video Projects 2024-25
Co-edited this montage of student video projects from several of my courses in the Broadcasting, Digital Media, and Journalism major at Cedarville University during the 2024-25 school year.
Sean O'Connor, M.F.A. 