Frank Tobin is the founder of Golden Boy Media, a platform for the various film, television and theatre projects which Frank has created, written, and will produce. Learn more about Frank.
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Music & Lyrics by Bill Bremer; Book by Bill Bremer and Frank Tobin Frank Tobin, Producer Registered with the U.S. Copyright Office www.crazy4lovethebroadwaymusical.com Log Line Crazy4Love is set from dusk to dawn during Grad Night, the “all bets are off,” lockdown party for high school seniors that immediately follows most graduations. Imagine 14 love-sick high school seniors locked in a gym for eight hours without their cell phones. No rules, no parents, and no chaperones. After surviving an Active Shooter episode, gender identity issues and Black Lives Matter political awakenings, it’s everyone’s last chance to party together. Hearts are broken, romances ignited, secrets revealed, scores settled, and long-simmering rivalries explode. Crazy4Love relives those last magical, innocent moments of youth where romance and passion rule.
One-Hour Drama Pilot Script by Frank Tobin and Susan Banks registered with the WGA Log Line Music, money and murder collide with the dreams and ambitions of three gifted and talented teens as they skyrocket from the church choir to the top of the Billboard charts. Fortified by their faith and guided by the uncanny “Second Sight” that runs in their family, the girls are suddenly thrust into the ferocious spotlight of instant fame. Now, they’re catapulted into a glamorous but dark world where danger lurks, hearts are broken, and lives are shattered. It’s “A Star is Born” times three and “Dreamgirls” for the new millennials.
Half-Hour Situation Comedy Pilot Script by Frank Tobin and Al Sophianopolous registered with the WGA Log Line It’s a bloodbath in high heels when this much-decorated, ex-Marine in pumps and his ultra-liberal, rising political star queer kid brother clash. Can a macho, heterosexual, MAGA hat-wearing drag queen, and his politically-ambitious, flaming liberal, estranged gay younger brother put aside their personal and political differences to save San Francisco’s homeless community center from destruction? A satire of both the right and the left, TENDERLOIN also exposes the inherent injustice in the way America treats the least and the most vulnerable among us.
Two-Hour Murder Mystery Treatment by Frank Tobin and Susan Banks registered with the WGA Log Line A rising star in the State Department is forced to take a leave of absence after the shocking assassination of a U.S. ambassador derails her career and jeopardizes her life. Mystery and murder follow her to her family’s “down-home” four-star restaurant in DC where she works to unravel the truth with the help of a charismatic and relentless reporter.
Two-Hour Romantic Comedy Treatment by Frank Tobin registered with the WGA Log Line A district attorney who has had little time for a personal life, is suddenly forced to change careers and, in the process, finds that her passion for politics is secondary to her passion for baking and romance.
Two-Hour Family Drama Script by Frank Tobin and Susan Banks registered with the WGA Log Line It’s double trouble, peril and pandemonium for two exact-look-alike teenage girls – one from a wealthy, entitled background, and the other, streetwise and struggling from the Inner City, who meet for the first time and agree, as a lark, to switch places for 24 hours. The stakes turn deadly when they unwittingly stumble into a whirlwind of danger, mischief, and madcap mayhem. It’s The Prince and The Pauper meets Parent Trap with a diversity twist.
Two-Hour Psychological Drama Script by Frank Tobin and Susan Banks registered with the WGA Log Line A psychological thriller that pulls back the seamy curtain of the dark side of the entertainment industry. The harrowing tale of a child groomed for stardom who grows up in a world tarnished by abandonment, abuse, rape and molestation. A haunting story of a young girl’s determination to survive and escape the horror of the cynical, heartless world behind the Hollywood Dream Machine.
90-MinuteHorror Film by Jake Barsha Script by Jake Barsha registered with the WGA Frank Tobin, Producer Log Line They came for the party. They ended up spare parts. After a wild night at an underground rave, five friends head to a shadowy L.A. tow yard to retrieve their impounded car – and walk straight into a nightmare. What they find isn’t a garage… it’s a trap. A maze of wrecked vehicles, locked shipping containers, and one very calm man with a scalpel. Hart isn’t just the owner – he’s a disbarred surgeon running a human slaughterhouse operation where the victims are young, healthy, and still breathing. As the group is picked off one by one, Claire must face the brutal truth: the only way out is through blood, grit, and sheer will to survive. Chop Shop is a raw, relentless horror-thriller that fuses grindhouse tension with modern social horrors – a story about what we’re really worth when the system sees us as nothing more than parts.
90-MinuteHorror Film by Jake Barsha Script by Jake Barsha registered with the WGA Frank Tobin, Producer Log Line Welcome to the cold, cruel, callous world of the Comedy improv stage…where blood is shed nightly for laughs…fear becomes fantasy…jokes and jive are the currency of success…and everyone dies laughing. Who wouldn’t kill for a laugh? The Funny Man is a psychological horror thriller web-series in the vein of PSYCHO, featuring a compelling villain who videotapes his victims, demanding that they say something funny on camera prior to killing them.
Frank Tobin
FRANK TOBIN is co-author, with composer / lyrist Bill Bremer, of the musical Crazy4Love. As a screenwriter, he is the co-author, with Susan Banks, of the musical television drama Revelations, about three singing sisters who go from the church choir to the top of Billboard’s musical charts; the family film The Switcheroo, a diversity take on The Prince and The Pauper; and the psychological thriller Terror in Tinseltown, based upon the headline-grabbing, bestselling memoirs of a beloved, award-winning television actress. He is the founder of the theatre ensemble New Phoenix Theatre-Los Angeles. He produced the world premiere of John PiRoman’s The Palace of Amateurs at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, the U.S. premiere of Robin Soans The Arab-Israeli Cookbook at the MET Theatre in Los Angeles, and the NYC premiere of John Byrne’s The Slab Boys at the Hudson Guild Theatre in New York. He is the co-author, with Margaret Heneghan, of the juvenile fiction novel When You See Water, Call It Water, the story of Ashanti Queen Yaa Asanteewa, who led Ghana’s revolt against British colonialism. Chicago-born and a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, he is from a family of 17 children.
