Screenwriting
Dr. Zeiser has written three speculative historical drama pilots.
AQUITAINE
Praised and condemned in equal measure, famed twelfth-century queen Eleanor of Aquitaine faces the struggle for self-determination in the historical drama series AQUITAINE. She must fight for her place in a marriage and kingdom that want to control who she is while struggling with the cutthroat politics and family drama of the medieval French courts.
- Gold Prize for TV Drama Pilot, 2018 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
- NewEnglandFilm.com Fellowship Honorable Mention 2018
- Selected Project, 2018 Stowe Story Labs Narrative Lab
- SemiFinalist, 2018 Big Break Screenwriting Contest
AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES
After seeing her cousin Bridget Cleary attacked for being a fairy changeling, 19th-century Irishwoman Hanney Burke must weigh her beliefs and loyalty against the truth demanded of her by the colonizing British legal system in AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES.
- Winner, NewEnglandFilm.com Fellowship 2022
- Selected Project, 2022 Stowe Story Labs Writers’ Retreat, Connemara, Ireland
- Quarter-Finalist, 2022 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
THE CONQUEST
Only one grieving woman – English queen Edith Swan-Neck – can preserve the truth of the broken promises and toxic rivalry at the heart of the greatest conflict in English history: the 11th-century Norman conquest of England. In the limited series THE CONQUEST, we learn history is not always written by the victors.
- Semi-Finalist, BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Prose Fiction
“Bower,” published in the Harvardwood Publishing anthology Once Upon a Fairytale, 2021
Sarah Zeiser 