Adam Meridan writes genre-bending stories about complex, queer characters. His feature and pilot scripts have placed at Slamdance, the Austin Film Festival, and ranked on Coverfly’s Red List. His work in interactive storytelling has been featured on Kotaku. Previously the Chief Editor at a Toronto-based indie press, he’s currently the Secretary for the Toronto chapter of the Canadian Authors Association, and a member of Queering the Screen, a CMF and Telefilm-funded initiative. He likes cats and carnage.
WHITEWOOD
Feature Film Script
(Official Selection at HorrOrigins Film Festival)
(Slamdance Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalist)
(Austin Film Festival Second Rounder)
A working-class student at the prestigious Whitewood University claws his way into its powerful honor society—and learns that to receive radiant knowledge is to become its host.
FROSTBITE
One-hour TV Script
(Slamdance Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalist)
When Canada’s figure skating gold medal hopeful Jeremy Finch discovers his American rival is a vampire, he’s willing to risk it all to level the playing field.
CONFESSIONAL BOOTH GLORY HOLE
Half-hour TV Script
Two broke Toronto nerds passionately operate an anonymous, underground podcast – where men confess their sins while being serviced through a glory hole – only to land themselves in a legal and social circus beyond reckoning.
KILL SWITCH
Half-hour TV Script
Abandoned by his arms dealer boyfriend and imprisoned by a scrappy black ops agency, heartbroken gadgeteer Winslow Lovelace must outwit his captors before his ex’s meltdown triggers all-out-war.
DARLING
Short Film
A young man living in an isolated cabin with his abusive father finds the courage to stand up to the man who raised him when he ends up caring for a small, sickly monster.