KEITH VARNEY

I GOT FIRED

Book, Music & Lyrics: Keith Varney

An aspiring writer spends six years working in a soul-crushing cubicle. When an evil new boss takes over, he is forced to make a decision that gets him fired. With security guards & everything. Based on a true-ish story. Some names have been changed to protect the guilty.

THE ROAD HOME

Book, Music & Lyrics: Keith Varney

Eighteen years after a tragedy broke them apart, famous musician Matthew returns home to repair his relationship with his childhood best friend Carrie who is running an impossible campaign to be the first black woman ever to represent her district in 1980 North Carolina.

SVU: THE MUSICAL

Book, Music & Lyrics: Keith Varney

An unauthorized parody of a certain legendary long-running NBC series about spectacularly horrible s*x crimes.

ELWAY: THE MUSICAL

Book, Music & Lyrics: Keith Varney

John Elway loves football. John Elway loves the Denver Broncos. Can he win the Superbowl and save the city of Denver? A comedic fable about the sheer awesomeness of professional football & the awesomeness of musical theater…

THE OTHER SEX

Lyrics: Keith Varney & Jillian Louis

Music: Jason Debord & Keith Varney

Director: West Hyler

A sketch show set in a musical world where gender roles are reversed…

JOSHUA: THE MUSICAL

Book: Thomas Hallett

Music & Lyrics: Keith Varney (as Theo Carver)

Based on the novel by Joseph Girzone & the Bristol Bay Productions Film

A mysterious man shows up in the small town of Auburn & changes everything.

UNSOLICITED

Finally fed up with rejection, a timid college professor quits his job and starts cleaning toilets at a prestigious regional theater in order to trick them into reading his masterpiece. But when his play is miraculously fast-tracked to Broadway, his dreams spin out of control when a professional wrestler is cast as his leading man.

TEN TIMES I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN I WAS AUTISTIC

Keith should have known that he was autistic, but he didn’t figure it out until he had a divorce under his belt and a potbelly over it. Through ten obvious warning signs he ignored, Keith pieces together the ways that being neurodivergent has shaped the course of his entire life – even if he was not-so-blissfully unaware of it.

THE DEAD CIRCLE

When Chris and Sarah bought an abandoned library to renovate and live in, they expected to be on the ground floor of the revival of Detroit. But when a mysterious contaminate is introduced to the water, the city is soon overrun by naked, twitching bodies. People of all ages and backgrounds all gather in an abandoned lot in the center of downtown. Mindlessly, they form a giant rotating circle that continues expanding until it looks like a hurricane of flesh.

BENEATH THE SNOW

Chris and Sarah’s quest for survival continues in the aftermath of the fall of Detroit. Battered, alone and newly homeless, they must find a new place to live as winter overtakes the city. Contaminated snow covers everything. Touch it and die. But what lies beneath the snow might be even more dangerous…

KODIAK

Feature-length film spec

Horror/Survival

A young family is trapped in their remote home in Alaska by a raging Kodiak bear.

TERMINAL

Feature-length film spec

Drama/Action

As despotic President Vale is on the verge of a fascist takeover of the United States, an 80-year-old veteran with stage-four lung cancer assembles a team of other terminal geriatrics to infiltrate the Whitehouse and ultimately try to assassinate the President.

A geriatric Oceans 11 in which the target is the assassination of a tyrannical President of the United States.

UNSOLICITED

Feature-length film spec

Comedy

Finally fed up with rejection, a timid college professor quits his job and starts cleaning toilets at a prestigious regional theater in order to trick them into reading his masterpiece. But when his play is miraculously fast-tracked to Broadway, will a Tony-obsessed producer, a fire-breathing director and Duane Johnson (AKA ‘The Rock’) crush his dreams?

THE DEAD CIRCLE

Feature-length film spec

Horror/Action/Survival

Trapped and alone in downtown Detroit, a resourceful husband and wife try to build themselves a safe haven when a parasite turns anyone who comes in contact with water into blind zombie-like creatures.

STAR TREK: RESTORATION

Feature-length film spec

Sci-Fi/Action

Earth has been destroyed and occupied by the Borg for more than fifteen years. Jean Luc Picard leads an aging rag-tag band of survivors from The Enterprise, The Defiant, and Voyager back in time to save the quadrant and restore the Federation’s honor.

I GOT FIRED

Half-hour series spec

Comedy/Musical

After aspiring writer Keith gets fired from his soul-crushing office job, he uses musical numbers & mostly-reliable narration to tell the true-ish story of the hilarious & brutal betrayal that led to his firing. And possibly gets revenge…

It’s “How I Met Your Mother” meets “The Office” with curse words and musical numbers.

MOMENTUM

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