Professional Portfolio
mark Stuver sag-aftra
WRITER
Mark entwines stories with a social and environmental conscience, even as he boldly entertains. He has worked on feature-length adaptations, page-one rewrites with producer and director oversight, and original films - including a thriller, a sci-fi epic, an action-fantasy, and a musical - and has written, revised and consulted on multiple pilots for television. He has also developed a comic based in his once long-time neighborhood of Venice Beach called The Boardwalk Guardians.
Samples available upon request.
2024 FATHER'S DAY - homage to Arnold Schwarzenegger's most popular films, a story of fathers and sons, both born and chosen
2023 THE NEXT ONE - a sci-fi western that premiered at the LA Shorts Fest
2021 GREAT KILL - a horror sci-fi set in the mountain west
2019 GO BACK - a sci-fi comedy feature about aging gracelessly and trying to turn back the clock
2019 CALL ME ISHMAEL - a visually inventive and culturally relevant retelling of the classic, Moby-Dick
2018 RIDE - thriller about a girl on a ride-share gone terribly wrong, Official Selection Beverly Hills and Oaxaca Film Festivals
2017 DARK WOLF - an action fairytale with a mythic spin on werewolves
2016 NATURAL HISTORY - a workplace sitcom based on Mark's time at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
2015 SHARED SPACE - a workplace sitcom set in space, Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Pilot Launch TV Script Contest (2018)
2014 SNAPSHOTS OF THE PAST - a Dinosaur Encounter written for NHMLA
2013 Rydell Essayist for THE TALE OF HILLBELLY at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
2013 MANCHESTER - a Neo-Noir set in LA, page-one rewrite
2013 MA Thesis: Rain Maker: How Imagination and Fantasy Create Pathways to Empathy and Healing
2012 THE BOARDWALK GUARDIANS - an unconventional super-hero comic book set on Venice Beach
2011 RAIN MAKER - an original epic sci-fi screenplay about a girl surviving on a world of ice
2011 Contributor to the ‘Society to Save Rocks Quarterly Newsletter, Jan-March 2011’ Hyderabad, India
2010 RUMOURS - an original movie musical - The Big Chill meets Mamma Mia! - with the songs of Fleetwood Mac
2009 MOBY-DICK - a wholly original and faithful adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel