current PROJECTS

Comedies ft.

Smart Women, Messy Decisions

A black-and-white vintage illustration of children fighting with each other, one girl wearing a Santa hat, with the colored text 'FOREFATHERS' and smaller text 'By Alanna J. Smith' overlaid.

forefathers

(Feature Film- Comedy)

In Development with Owl Tree Productions

After blowing their savings on three failed IVF attempts, Philadelphia middle school history teacher Shea and her job-juggling actress wife Julie score free drugs on Facebook and dive into a frantic 48-hour quest for a sperm donor, racing against a ticking biological clock.

Christmas-themed poster titled 'A Prescription for Christmas' with colorful holiday lights and pine branches, featuring a parody medical prescription form with a woman's surprised face, labeled 'Refill' and signed by 'Alanna J. Smith'.

A PRESCRIPTION

FOR CHRISTMAS

(Feature Film- Comedy)

“Trainwreck” meets every Hallmark film since the dawn of time.

After a drunken mistake at a company Christmas party, Jessica, a successful Jewish New York publishing executive, tries to bury the Christmas gift that keeps on giving. 

A wedding setup at Winterbury with white chairs decorated with pink ribbons, pink flowers in barrels, and a red wooden archway surrounded by pink flowers, overlooking a vineyard.

A WEDDING

AT WINTERBURY

(Feature Film- Romcom)

Classic Hallmark

*Finalist in Reel One Entertainment’s “Write-A-Rom-Com” Competition

Mackenzie Wright is a bridal consultant at the chicest wedding dress boutique in Manhattan...and a hopeless romantic. So when Mackenzie’s boss sends her to work the Winterbury Winery bridal expo in Connecticut, she’s shocked to meet Adrian Winterbury, who frankly, seems allergic to weddings altogether. 

Black and white photo of a woman with dark hair, holding a cigarette in her right hand, with smoke near her face, and her left arm raised behind her head. The word 'Polly's' appears in pink cursive font at the top left. Text at bottom left reads 'Created by Alanna J. Smith & S. Dylan Zwikel'.

Polly’s

(1 HR Dramedy)

“Boardwalk Empire” meets “Coyote Ugly.”

POLLY’S  is the story of the most exclusive bordello in Prohibition Era NYC, where elite call girls entertain celebrities, mobsters, and intelligentsia alike under the watchful gaze of their 4’11’’ Jewish immigrant Madam, Polly Adler.

Collage of diverse people experiencing various emotions, with the central focus on a sign that reads 'Career Day' by Alanna J. Smith, surrounded by images of people in different professions and expressing excitement, boredom, or frustration.

CAREER DAY

(1/2 HR Comedy)

Andrea Savage’s “I’m Sorry” meets Joe Swanberg’s “Easy”

An anthology series about a group of parents in the Philadelphia suburbs, feeling the pressure to make sense of their lives enough to present something passable to a class of oblivious six-year-olds. 

Split image with a birthday girl on the left and an elderly woman dressed as a gangster on the right. The birthday girl wears a party hat and has a thoughtful expression, while the elderly woman wears sunglasses, a red beret, and is holding cash and a baseball bat. Text overlay says, 'Out with a BANG'.

OUT WITH A BANG

(1/2 HR Comedy)

“New Girl” meets “Grace and Frankie” 

A broke, single actress has to give up her Upper West Side studio when her Broadway show, Timeless: The Michael Bolton Musical, unexpectedly closes…on her 30th birthday. She makes a game time decision to move in with her sex-positive, Jewish grandmother who is determined to go out with a bang.

Collage of historical and modern images including children in vintage clothing, a paper with handwriting, sheet music, a basketball hoop, and a vintage sports team photo, with the title 'PIVOT STEP' by Alanna J. Smith overlaid.

PIVOT STEP

(Feature Film- Comedy)

“A League of Their Own” meets “Dead Poets Society”

Senda Berenson, the 25-year-old phys-ed teacher at Smith College, struggles to reach the reluctant ladies of the class of 1892. Determined to raise a class of ballsy women who are competitive in the world of men, Senda introduces them to “basket-ball” less than one year after its invention for men.