Corey David Taft

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About Corey

Biography

Awards & Honors

Awards & Honors

Corey has studied improv and sketch comedy with The Pack Theater, UCB, and Monkey Butler. He has performed with Camerashrapnel, ShopKeep, Wretched Hive and currently with the Pack house team, Pleather. He graduated from Cal State LA with a B.A. in Scriptwriting and is presently enrolled in the university’s Theater/Television/Film MFA prog

Corey has studied improv and sketch comedy with The Pack Theater, UCB, and Monkey Butler. He has performed with Camerashrapnel, ShopKeep, Wretched Hive and currently with the Pack house team, Pleather. He graduated from Cal State LA with a B.A. in Scriptwriting and is presently enrolled in the university’s Theater/Television/Film MFA program. He is a semifinalist in the Austin Film Festival’s TV Pilot category and a runner up of Script Pipeline’s TV Writing award for his original 30-minute comedy, Future Me and Me. In addition to scriptwriting, Corey performs spoken word poetry. In 2019, he traveled around the country, performing in over 100 different venues. 

Awards & Honors

Awards & Honors

Awards & Honors

Script Pipeline - TV Pilot Runner Up Award Future Me and Me (30 Min Comedy Sci-Fi) 

Austin Film Festival - TV Pilot Semi-Finalist Future Me and Me (30 Min Comedy Sci-Fi)

Filmmatic - TV Comedy Quarter-Finalist Tokyo to Buffalo (30 Min Comedy)

NYC Midnight Screenplay Finalist

Mr. Noelson’s Christmas (short film screenplay)

WriterDuet Short Screen

Script Pipeline - TV Pilot Runner Up Award Future Me and Me (30 Min Comedy Sci-Fi) 

Austin Film Festival - TV Pilot Semi-Finalist Future Me and Me (30 Min Comedy Sci-Fi)

Filmmatic - TV Comedy Quarter-Finalist Tokyo to Buffalo (30 Min Comedy)

NYC Midnight Screenplay Finalist

Mr. Noelson’s Christmas (short film screenplay)

WriterDuet Short Screenplay Semi-Finalist Sully and The Sunglasses 

WILDsound Daily Festival - TV Spec Writing

Night Court - Abby vs. The Lawbots (30 Min) 

Hollywood Foreign Press Scholarship

InkSlam Invitational Poetry SLAM Poet

Encinitas La Paloma Full Moon Poetry SLAM Winner (11-time winner) 

Skills

Awards & Honors

Skills

 

Sketch Writing; Script Supervisor; Writing Assistant; Improv; Poetry/Spoken Word; Baseball.

Corey's Scripts

TV PILOTS

Future Me and Me; Tokyo to Buffalo; Speech & Debate; Boyfriend-Man

TV SPECS

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Rick and Morty; Night Court

SHORT FILM

Ants and the Inevitability of It All; 24/7; I,Only; To Catch a Lighting Bug; Cindy vs. Sedona; A Scrounger's Tale

PLAYS

When Warren Met Carolina; The Cat Lady and The Cat; Jacob Marley and The Christmas Goblins; I Am Georgeaniel

FEATURES

Christmas Night on Zoo Island; American Dinosaurs 

SKETCHES

Forrest Gump Meets Jenny's Husband, Forrest Thompson; Dr. Dolittle Can't Talk to His Kids; Rumplestiltskin's Daughter Has a Date; Uber Parent; Sleepy Dad; Tarzan Doesn't Have a Beard Press Conference; Personalized Shasta Can Commercial; 90's Reference-Off Party; Mad Max Doof Heads Concert; After School with Lil' Brenton; Cheerios Parody Rant

(Scripts are available to read upon request)

Script Examples

TV COMEDY - FUTURE ME & ME PILOT EPISODE - OPENING PAGESTV COMEDY DRAMA - TOKYO TO BUFFALO - PILOT PAGES TV COMEDY - NIGHT COURT SPEC PAGES FEATURE FILM - CHRISTMAS NIGHT ON ZOO ISLAND - 1ST 5 PAGESFULL LENGTH PLAY - JACOB MARLEY & THE CHRISTMAS GOBLINS - SCENESKETCH Forrest Gump Meets Jenny's Husband, Forrest ThompsonPOETRY - She Reads Books While She Walks Poem

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Link TreeThe Pack TheaterBackstage ProfileEmail

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