Everything original! Whether features or TV, I'm excited to read ideas not based on anything previously existing. Adaptations are great, (and I love them!) but I'm most invigorated by new ideas specifically made for their medium.
Fantasy. I struggle with "realms," and I don't think I'm the right guy to help with something like that.
Patrick Metcalf is a writer, director, and producer of films, television, and home videos of dogs and babies. His films and TV shows have played in such places as MTV, Tubi, Amazon Prime, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and dozens of less impressive venues.
Patrick's episode of Amazon Prime's UNDONE received wide acclaim, with
RogerEbert.com calling it “arguably the most detailed and complex
designs the show has ever tackled to striking success.” The episode went on to receive the Writers Guild of America Award for best animation, an honor which Patrick proudly shared with co-writer Elijah Aron
Originally from the suburbs of Chicago and a proud Northwestern University graduate, Patrick has brought his midwestern sensibility and humility to Los Angeles, making writing bios like this VERY uncomfortable for him. He will stop now.