Ben Keeshin

One-hour pilot · Period family crime drama

Two Knocks

In 1970s Chicago, a Jewish mob matriarch orders her closeted son to blackmail a patron of the gay bar she owns. Then, the bar’s politically radical, very handsome manager gives him a reason to switch sides.

Feature · Gothic horror-comedy

House of the Brutal

Based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables

Alice Pyncheon has spent 20 years in a rotting Brutalist mansion by the sea, trying to solve her father’s death. When a mysterious stranger arrives with questions of his own, the house starts answering.

Half-hour pilot · Buddy comedy

Dairy Queens

To keep their dying town on Google Maps, two teens break into an abandoned Dairy Queen and open a rogue ice-cream shop as an economic sign of life. Business is booming until their shop catches the eye of a disgraced Food Network star looking for cheap real estate.

Half-hour pilot · Dark comedy with a genre twist

The Sandcastles

Facing eviction, a downwardly mobile LA couple invites the founder of a regressive Christian commune to dinner, hoping to get in. When only one of them is invited to the commune, they have to decide between their relationship and a free house.

Short · Comedy

Clown Adonis

A self-described “sexless clown” crashes a gay pool party to sell seats for his one-man show. Anxious, he plays jester to the hotties — but, when a fellow “clown” confesses a crush, he has to reexamine his own rules of attraction.