Typically focused on comedy (but well-versed in other genres), Matt DeNoto has a solid track record of creating intelligent, compelling stories in both short and long forms.  He knows how to make jokes funny on the page and how to strike the right balance between silly and heartfelt.  He has several projects ready for production.

PROJECTS BEING SHOPPED

MASTER & SLAVE & CLAIRE is a multi-camera sitcom about a down-and-out woman forced to move in with her S&M enthusiast brother.  The project was a semi-finalist in the NBC Playground competition based on this 5-minute pitch video:

ELEANOR (co-written with Jim Eshom) is a horror feature script about a group of college kids who break into their town’s infamous Murder House, where twenty years ago home invaders slaughtered an entire family.  Except for four-year-old Eleanor, who escaped into the walls, where she’s been living like a feral animal ever since.  When she sees the college kids breaking in to party, she has flashbacks to that fatal night.  But this time she’s fighting back.  Explore the pitch deck here.

NIGHT OF THE PARTY (co-written with Jim Eshom) is a sophomoric comedy feature script in the vein of National Lampoon or Cheech & Chong.  Two estranged brothers reconnect over the course of an epic party overflowing with booze, drugs, and assorted bodily fluids.

PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED WORKS

HARRY POTTER AND THE TEN YEARS LATER is a popular webseries with millions of views on YouTube and write-ups on dozens of sites around the world.  It has screened across North America, including at Stan Lee’s Comikaze.  It is the winner of two LA Web Fest Awards, including Outstanding Producing.

DeNoto was invited to shoot his short film RUSH JOB on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank as part of the AT&T Create-a-thon, where it would go on to be named one of the winners of the mobile category.

In 2013, DeNoto was commissioned by The Visceral Company to write the sketches and songs for their horror-comedy show HEMOPHELIA’S HOUSE OF HORRORS, which made that year’s list of Best Rated Theatre by BitterLemons.com.

His zombie short DEFENSE MECHANISM won Best In Show at the inaugural Pensacon Film Festival, and has screened at numerous other fests as well as the popular zombie convention Walker Stalker Con.

DeNoto was a featured playwright for the 2017-2018 season of PlayGround-LA, which selected two of his original pieces for staged readings.

Other short works of his have been produced by the Long Beach Playhouse, Theatre Unleashed, Zombie Joe’s Underground, and Forces of Nature Productions.