Stories that make you laugh first and think second. Characters who navigate strange worlds with humor, heart, and a healthy dose of sarcasm. Scripts available for optioning.
A stranded Manhattan hedge fund manager and a spirited Italian woman strike a deal on a dusty Tuscan roadside: she gets him to the finish line, he gets her to America. What neither planned on was falling in love somewhere on the Strada Bonifica.
A high-octane Chicago commodities trader collapses on the trading floor — with her literal heart narrating, has been trying to tell her this was coming for thirty years. Forced into a Malibu wellness retreat, Audrey attacks healing like a new account to close.
A stranded Manhattan hedge fund manager and a spirited Italian woman cross Tuscany on a tandem bicycle — she gets him to the finish line, he gets her to America. What neither planned on was falling in love.
One dropped ring at Wrigley Field accidentally gets two men engaged to the right women at the wrong time. Two Matts. Two Jens. One spectacularly bad plan.
Two retired CIA agents discover their neighbor’s Airbnb is an enemy operations base forty minutes from the G7 summit. The tattoos are faded. The instincts are not.
One blizzard. Two grandmothers. Twenty years of fake bar mitzvahs and staged confirmations about to unravel in one very long holiday weekend.
A commodities trader’s literal heart — narrating in the voice of Wanda Sykes — forces her into a Malibu wellness retreat. The retreat has no idea what it’s in for.
A single mom opens a strip club with benefits, childcare, and a gynecologist on staff. The most disruptive employer in Detroit wasn’t what anyone expected.
A straight-laced Mormon trademark attorney loses his family firm to his father’s secret wife — and goes to work for a porn conglomerate to buy it back.
A social worker searches for the 25,000 forgotten children who age out of foster care every year — one case at a time, looking for the brother he lost thirty years ago.
The smartest person in ancient Syracuse must save the city from a volcano, escape the gladiator pits, and figure out how to talk to a girl. Not necessarily in that order.
Gilda Hauser Porcari writes commercially viable romantic comedies, half-hour and hour comedy/dramedy, and hour drama original pilots, designed for streaming, network and genre-specific markets. Her scripts center on high-concept hooks, headstrong, smart characters, and international settings — stories with sarcasm on the surface and genuine emotion underneath.
Her script Via Dell’Amore, developed in consultation with Joan Lane, producer of the Academy Award–winning The King’s Speech (Best Picture, 2010), is available for optioning.
Gilda won the 2024 Screencraft Mentor Award with her half hour comedy Change of Pace out of thousands of submissions. She is a 2023 Austin Film Festival Semi-Finalist for one hour dramedy Book of Jeb. She also won the Chicago Screenplay awards in 2022, is a Page Award semi-finalist, and a Stowe Story Labs 2026 mentee.
Gilda brings authentic voice and comedic timing to every script. A former stand-up comedian in the 90’s and 2000’s, she appeared on MTV and Comedy Central. She learned improvisation at Second City and co-founded her own improv troupe, Totally Unrehearsed Theatre in Detroit. Her voice work has been featured in campaigns for General Motors, Ford Motor Company, William Beaumont Hospital, and Grub-Hub. She has shared stages with Ellen DeGeneres and Tim Allen, appeared in the Playboy Comedy Series live at Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle in Detroit, and is featured in the stand-up comedy documentary Be Funny (2008).
She holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and has completed screenwriting courses at UCLA Extension, with private voice training from Great Voice Company’s Susan Berkley.
Gilda and her husband Damian split their time between the United States, Canada, and Italy. Seeking representation.
Scripts available for optioning and development. Open to representation. Available for collaboration and voice work inquiries.