Michael Morra is an attorney who happily traded in the horrors of brief writing for screenwriting. While Michael writes all types of scary films, he’s drawn to using deeply flawed characters to dig into complex social issues such as teen bullying, chronic anxiety, and sex work in the cyberage. Michael won the 2022 Final Draft Big Break Grand Prize and Page Awards Gold Prize with ABOUT MCKENNA, a female-driven revenge thriller in the vein of COLLATERAL. In 2023, Michael also optioned two projects. FEAR BOX, a finalist in the 2023 ScreenCraft Horror Competition, is a supernatural thriller that centers on anxiety and is in development with producer Rebecca-Clare Evans of Caged Film. Natalie Kennedy is set to direct. DAYLIGHT is a contained thriller set in a hotel that takes place almost entirely in one evening. It was optioned by Divine Entertainment, with Traci Lords set to direct. Michael’s work has also appeared on Coverfly’s The Red List.
Michael Morra is an attorney who happily traded in the horrors of brief writing for screenwriting. While Michael writes all types of scary films, he’s drawn to using deeply flawed characters to dig into complex social issues such as teen bullying, chronic anxiety, and sex work in the cyberage. Michael won the 2022 Final Draft Big Break Grand Prize and Page Awards Gold Prize with ABOUT MCKENNA, a female-driven revenge thriller in the vein of COLLATERAL. In 2023, Michael also optioned two projects. FEAR BOX, a finalist in the 2023 ScreenCraft Horror Competition, is a supernatural thriller that centers on anxiety and is in development with producer Rebecca-Clare Evans of Caged Film. Natalie Kennedy is set to direct. DAYLIGHT is a contained thriller set in a hotel that takes place almost entirely in one evening. It was optioned by Divine Entertainment, with Traci Lords set to direct. Michael’s work has also appeared on Coverfly’s The Red List.
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