Philip wrote his first screenplay in 1989 largely due to the prompting of a writer friend. Since then, he has penned more than thirty screenplays in virtually every genre and nine of his scripts have received acclaim in screenwriting contests, film festivals and writing fellowships. One of his file cabinet drawers overflows with script concepts, scenes and plot points. Typically, he has one or two, and sometimes three scripts in progress on the computer in either Final Draft or Movie Magic Screenwriter, his preferred script word processor.The second script he penned, Neon Cactus, landed a berth as a Quarter-Finalist in the Academy's esteemed Nicholl Fellowship (1990). Since then, his scripts have racked up a number of festival and contest awards and placements, including:
1st Place, Action Adventure Thriller, 4th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest, A Nuclear Option, 2011.
Winner, A/Exposure (Write Movies), Frost on the Pumpkin, January 2012.
1st Place, Short Screenplay Competition, Spirit Quest Film Festival, The Tie, 2011.
1st Place, Short Screenplay, Screenwriter Takes All, The Tie, April 2011.
2nd Place, Woods Hole Film Festival, Mystery-Thriller genre, A Nuclear Option, 2011.
Runner Up, Independent Short Film & Music Arts Festival, The Tie, 2010.
2nd Runner Up, Flagstaff Film Festival, Kate, 2010.
Finalist ~ Official Selection, 2011 International Beverly Hills Film Festival, A Nuclear Option.
Top Ten Finalist, Going Green Film Festival, A Nuclear Option, 2010.
Top Ten Finalist, Elmore Leonard Literary Arts & Film Festival, Body of Work, 2010.
Top Twenty-Five Finalist, Going Green Film Festival, Kate, 2010.
Official Finalist, Amsterdam Film Festival, Neon Cactus, 2011.
Quarter-Finalist, Nicholl Fellowship, Neon Cactus, 1990.
Philip and Presence Films of Sydney Australia have agreed to a development/collaborative writing arrangement for a compelling World War II drama and evocative love story, Black Cat.
He recently completed co-writing a short screenplay with director, Nikka Lorak (University of Westminster), Dreams and Beyond. This project is currently shooting in London.In 2007, he was contracted to collaborate on a rewrite of Thorns From a Rose, a script originally penned by Byron Browne of 22Seventeen Productions. This project is finalizing funding for production.
He wrote for the entrepreneurial TV show, Everything Entrepreneur, shown locally in Arizona, and is shopping several of his TV show concepts. Currently he is developing a documentary about baseball, politics and pollution in his home town and has a reality baseball show in the pitch queue. He collaborates with others on a variety of reality show concepts, including Green Home Renovation, a brilliant Women's Talk show, an Interactive Psychic Reality Show and a great reality contest show geared to save the world... well at least it will make a dent in the proverbial bucket.
Philip has written published fiction projects and non-fiction treatises as well. In late 2005, he released his first collection of short stories, Glimpses - Stories From Around the Bend. These stories relate tales that could be true even though many reside in what would be termed non-ordinary reality. Compelling and insightful, any of the stories in this collection have the potential for adaption to television or film scripts.
Leading up to the 2008 Presidential Election, Philip wrote a column for the Huffington Post's website (Huffpollstrology) that accurately tracked polling and the outcome of the election.
Philip has also written for Mediavillage.com, a television entertainment website based in New York. As well, he wrote as a columnist for the Science Fiction Channel's website, the America West Airlines Magazine and previously contributed content to Constellation Magazine, StarIQ.com and Tarot.com. One of his favorite pieces of writing was a column for the Science Fiction Channel's website that preceded the not so life-threatening Y2K. His weekly column, YNot2K, blasted the hysteria and fear-mongering that surrounded the turning to the new millennium and provided a humorous antidote to a frantic society.
Philip has performed stand-up comedy as a side interest since 1989. He quips that he, “just wasn't getting enough rejection in life and wanted a more stable career.” He appeared on NBC and Fox Networks doing comedy routines with local affiliate weathermen, Fritz Coleman and Mark Thompson. As well, Fritz invited Philip to join him for a comedic segment on NBC's West Coast New Year's Eve Countdown show going into 1990. In his work as astrologer, he has been contracted to perform stand-up performances for entertainment at conferences. Previously, working as staff astrologer, Philip was a regular guest on Cleveland's morning TV show, The Morning Exchange.
When doing his first professional lecture as an astrologer, he announced during his first professional astrological lecture that he intended to write a book. As the words came out, he recalled thinking, “Uh-oh. I think I just said something about writing a book.” After the lecture various questions about his book confirmed his suspicion. His first book, The Astrology of Transcendence, originated in that lecture. He also wrote two other astrology books, The Astrology of Deep Space, and The Sun at the Center - A Primer of Heliocentric Astrology. His latest astrological writings are on a CD, The Galactic Trilogy. This comprehensive CD of more that 1,700 pages contains the treatises, Astronomy for Astrologers and The Soul of the Sky, an innovative interpretive deep space primer and extensive data compilations of solar system and galactic phenomena. Most recently, Philip is writing a mainstream interest book on the recent “reorganization” of the solar system including the dwarfing of Pluto, discovery of Eris and the latest astronomical discoveries regarding what revolves about our Sun. This work details the history of astronomical planetary discoveries from the late 1700's to modern day, associated mythology and the social and cultural influences the discoveries and lore render to culture, theology and social evolution.
He teaches creative writing classes, largely in the field of astrology.
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