Feature Length Screenplays
Architect's Rendition
Logline: Determined to marry his mistress, an architect enlists three associates in a complex scheme to murder his wife, and each other.
Architect's Rendition tells the story of an amoral man who tries to secure the life he always wanted to live by cutting a swath through a cast of misfit characters − the kind who allow themselves to be deceived.
Double Blind Test
Logline: After a professional mediator is conned by identical twin businessmen who sought her help to resolve a dispute, she meets another woman in a suspiciously similar circumstance, and the two team up to take down the con artists.
Double Blind Test explores the wounds of deceit, connivance, despair, romance and sweet lex talionis.
Tempus Fu!it
Logline: Believing his business partner absconded with a valuable invention, a mixed-up scientist enlists his partner’s wife who was once his lover in a frantic search that ends unexpectedly thanks to the very machine he invented.
Tempus Fu!it follows the travails and mix-ups that befall two scientists who inadvertently scramble their futures.
Stalled
Logline: Trapped inside a wretched bathroom stall, two disabled veterans suffer serial atrocities as they plot an escape from their sadistic captors who challenge them to earn their freedom, and a chance to reverse their disabilities.
Stalled is a low-budget horror script set largely in one location, featuring one man confined to a wheelchair, and another who is blind.
The Stooper
Logline: Left for dead after bungling a petty scam on a sadistic gambler, a lowly racetrack stooper fights back with the help of the gambler’s ex-girlfriend to regain his dignity and recover a valuable ticket that rightfully belongs to him.
The Stooper exposes the demeaning life of a man who picks up discarded tickets at the race track but comes to find the strength to stand up for himself and change his life forever.
Five Episode Teleplay Series
The Good (Bad) Shepard
A high-powered negotiator at a booming nanotech firm covers up a deadly confrontation with a con artist, but as a relentless private investigator closes in, her attempts to control the narrative ignite fraud, infidelity, and a boardroom coup that threatens to strip her of everything.
Synopsis
When elite corporate negotiator Tracy Shepard is conned by a smooth grifter posing as a biotech visionary, she tracks him down—only to kill him in a violent confrontation she insists was self-defense. Rather than report the incident, Tracy uses her considerable influence to erase evidence, invent alibis, and reframe the death as a sordid accident. But the cover-up fractures her inner circle: her husband retreats into excess, her closest confidant becomes collateral damage, and a disgraced private investigator begins circling with uncomfortable questions. As blackmail threats mount and federal authorities inch closer, Tracy doubles down, manipulating employees, staging fake investigations, and weaponizing corporate resources to stay ahead of exposure.
Set against a jet-set backdrop of boardrooms, yachts, and international R&D hubs, Woe Be to Tracy Shepard charts the transformation of a woman who once solved conflicts into someone who creates them. Each episode peels back another layer of Tracy’s carefully curated power, revealing how control becomes addiction and loyalty becomes expendable. What begins as damage control evolves into moral freefall, culminating in a reckoning that echoes the biblical warning at the heart of the series: when a shepherd feeds herself instead of her flock, the flock will scatter—and judgment is inevitable.
About Herb Schultz
He’s a screenwriter and novelist based in New York City, with five completed screenplays and three published novels—Ronnie and Lennie, Double Blind Test, and Architect’s Rendition. His other work includes the short story collection Sometimes the Sun Does Shine There and the essay volume Culture Justly Scrutinized.
Before focusing full-ti
He’s a screenwriter and novelist based in New York City, with five completed screenplays and three published novels—Ronnie and Lennie, Double Blind Test, and Architect’s Rendition. His other work includes the short story collection Sometimes the Sun Does Shine There and the essay volume Culture Justly Scrutinized.
Before focusing full-time on writing, he was marketing director for IBM’s supercomputing division. He’s also the creator of two original games, Seventh Sense Poker and AnagraScramble. He’s a graduate of Gannon University and Syracuse University.