Writer. Dialoguist.

I can’t distinguish the angels of Metropolis from the wings on the backs of progress, anymore; it’s muddled and weak (the difference) when you’re speaking through that machine.


LAS PALMAS
Feature-Length Screenplay
Written by C. Lee Dionne

If ALMOST FAMOUS was a romanticized fever dream of Cameron Crowe’s youth, LAS PALMAS is its’ grounded kid brother. A coming-of-age story steeped in fryer grease, the story follows a teenage boy navigating three pivotal nights at a rundown Tex-Mex restaurant that become an unexpected rite of passage—and a window into his hometown’s eclectic grunge world.

In Our Bedroom After the War
Musical for the Stage
Book by C. Lee Dionne, Music and Lyrics by Stars

After a miscarriage, London chooses sobriety and a new path forward, while her writer husband Ian spirals into an alcoholic daze, attempting to rewrite their tragedy as a dystopian novel. As Ian’s imagined rebellion escalates, the lines between fiction and reality blur—forcing the couple to confront their pain, their marriage, and whether love can survive after devastation. Powered by the music of Canadian indie-pop icons Stars.

IF
Feature-Length Screenplay
Written by C. Lee Dionne

Winnipeg, 1942. A Jewish outsider arrives in the city on what should be an unremarkable winter day, only to find it unsettlingly, inexplicably transformed. What follows is a slow unraveling in the tradition of Altman; only if.