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Our 20 Minute Short Film called, "Coach"
Follow this link to watch "Coach": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mO8STj8Ah0&t=17s
This summer, I again teamed up with Parker Lulu Productions to bring you our latest short film entitled, "Coach". We won our first award (November 2025) from Global Shorts Festival", the "Award of Excellence", followed by another Win in the Accolade Global Competition (December 2025) as well as a few "Official Selections" thus far. Wow, so cool.
Coach: “When a well-liked and winning high school football coach reveals to his colleague, that his transgender adult daughter will be introducing him at a gala awards dinner in his honor, he is cautioned that this may cost him his new position as Spokesperson for a heavy “Bro-Oriented” sporting goods franchise.
Timely and unique. The fresh take on diversity is, that it is the Coach himself, who has to come all the way out with his support which could cost him a lucrative new position if he does.
I was a producer and director of this film, and I also have an acting role as the contrary but hip assistant coach.
We shot it in South Philadelphia. The film was released on September 15, 2025, and here for you to view at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mO8STj8Ah0&t=17s
This summer, I again teamed up with Parker Lulu Productions to bring you our latest short film entitled, "Coach". We won our first award (November 2025) from Global Shorts Festival", the "Award of Excellence", followed by another Win in the Accolade Global Competition (December 2025) as well as a few "Official Selections" thus far. Wow, so cool.
Coach: “When a well-liked and winning high school football coach reveals to his colleague, that his transgender adult daughter will be introducing him at a gala awards dinner in his honor, he is cautioned that this may cost him his new position as Spokesperson for a heavy “Bro-Oriented” sporting goods franchise.
Timely and unique. The fresh take on diversity is, that it is the Coach himself, who has to come all the way out with his support which could cost him a lucrative new position if he does.
I was a producer and director of this film, and I also have an acting role as the contrary but hip assistant coach.
We shot it in South Philadelphia. The film was released on September 15, 2025, and here for you to view at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mO8STj8Ah0&t=17s
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"Joey's Place" - The TV Pilot Here is the pitch for the Crowdfunding Campaign for our TV Series, "Joey's Place". We are gearing up to shoot the 30-minute pilot episode called, "Pressure Cooker".
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Joey's Place is a ten-minute short film, a Proof-of-Concept piece, about an enterprising but conflicted up and coming mob boss who has to hide his criminal activity from his passionate but idealistic wife inside the everyday world of his neighborhood restaurant. I was the director, a producer and an actor in this short and it won five awards. You can view it at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAnKGcfFCfA&t=90s
Backstory with Terry McFadden is a Zoom style interview series where Terry McFadden has a conversation with established Writers, Producers, Actors, Comics and Creators from all facets of the entertainment industry. In this series, we will learn not only about the guest’s work and current projects but about where they came from, how they got here--their obstacles and triumphs as well as some touching and funny stories along the way.
The First Three Episodes: Here are a few clips of the first three episode's that include:
Rick Overton - With 40 plus years of sustained success as a comic and actor as well as an Emmy award for TV writing, Rick Overton talks about what it takes to be taken seriously in this funny business.
John Lehr - TV Show Creator, Actor, Writer and Producer John Lehr talks about creating a winning TV Series, being the first Geico Caveman and the many benefits of doing psychedelic drugs in the desert.
Eric Simonson - Writer, producer, director and longtime member of the prestigious Steppenwolf theatre in Chicago, Eric Simonson has been nominated for several Tony and Emmy awards and has won one Oscar so far. A multi-faceted artist in TV, film and the theatre, and he is also a big fan of the opera.
Rick Overton - With 40 plus years of sustained success as a comic and actor as well as an Emmy award for TV writing, Rick Overton talks about what it takes to be taken seriously in this funny business.
John Lehr - TV Show Creator, Actor, Writer and Producer John Lehr talks about creating a winning TV Series, being the first Geico Caveman and the many benefits of doing psychedelic drugs in the desert.
Eric Simonson - Writer, producer, director and longtime member of the prestigious Steppenwolf theatre in Chicago, Eric Simonson has been nominated for several Tony and Emmy awards and has won one Oscar so far. A multi-faceted artist in TV, film and the theatre, and he is also a big fan of the opera.
Life Coaches and Rock Stars
Logline: A charismatic talk show host presses his high-profile guests into displaying the effects of their childhood trauma as they both unintentionally reenact that situation.
“Life Coaches and Rock Stars” is a semi-scripted, improvisational spoof of the celebrity talk show where Terry McFadden interviews real or fictional life coaches and music related performers about their life and career. The discussion is punctuated with a number of twists and surprises building to a climactic inner moment where outer personas are stripped away showing us unusual and ironic revelations about both of them.
(Below are some highlights for 2 episodes and more to come.)
Logline: A charismatic talk show host presses his high-profile guests into displaying the effects of their childhood trauma as they both unintentionally reenact that situation.
“Life Coaches and Rock Stars” is a semi-scripted, improvisational spoof of the celebrity talk show where Terry McFadden interviews real or fictional life coaches and music related performers about their life and career. The discussion is punctuated with a number of twists and surprises building to a climactic inner moment where outer personas are stripped away showing us unusual and ironic revelations about both of them.
(Below are some highlights for 2 episodes and more to come.)
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Life Coaches and Rock Stars - Episode 1 Highlights - Waco Smith.
Waco Smith is a food-binging, eccentric, OCD ridden and semi-delusional, little-known country singer who made a career out of playing every and any little joint along Philly's South Street and neighboring communities, as long as they also threw in a double continental breakfast and a bottomless pitcher of beer. Terry makes it known in this interview that Waco actually mentored him when he was a young kid starting out and they hit those nostalgic chords and a few others as these highlights show from episode 1 of Life Coaches and Rock Stars. |
Life Coaches and Rock Stars - Episode 2 Highlights - Patsy Carrigan
Terry’s interview with salty Atlantic City lounge singer, Patsy Carrigan, is turned upside down when Patsy reveals, after being triggered by Terry, that she is, in fact, not Patsy Carrigan at all but Terry's younger sister, Kylee McFadden, who he coerced into the interview by agreeing to pay her back the money he owes her when his last project went South. |
Another Side of Hollywood
Logline: A propaganda pushing and delusional TV show host interviews people from the seedy and salty side of Hollywood and treats this alternate reality as if it is the only one that exists.
Logline: A propaganda pushing and delusional TV show host interviews people from the seedy and salty side of Hollywood and treats this alternate reality as if it is the only one that exists.
Universal Chords (Single Camera Sitcom)
Brief Description: “Universal Chords is a workplace situation comedy about a charismatic but failing music store owner who is forced to share his performance space with his ambitious but inexperienced life-coach, ex-wife. They bump heads, and sometimes uglies, attending to the business of raising their adrenaline-eating, hipster-punk teen daughter and the day-to-day decisions of how not to run the shop while competing in all arenas to determine who is the real 'rock-star' here. When you add to the mix his best friend and manager, a caustically animated bohemian bullshit artist, fixed on the idea that no gig is a bad gig; together with, a coming-of-age rock and roll sage who hides behind his chakras; we now have five characters, who band-together to pull each other out of, or into, their off-key arrangements creating more chaos in the process.”
Tagline: “Enmeshment in the key of me”.
(Currently on hand: Pilot Script and Written Pitch Bible. Will be shooting the POC-scene-trailer early this Spring)
Brief Description: “Universal Chords is a workplace situation comedy about a charismatic but failing music store owner who is forced to share his performance space with his ambitious but inexperienced life-coach, ex-wife. They bump heads, and sometimes uglies, attending to the business of raising their adrenaline-eating, hipster-punk teen daughter and the day-to-day decisions of how not to run the shop while competing in all arenas to determine who is the real 'rock-star' here. When you add to the mix his best friend and manager, a caustically animated bohemian bullshit artist, fixed on the idea that no gig is a bad gig; together with, a coming-of-age rock and roll sage who hides behind his chakras; we now have five characters, who band-together to pull each other out of, or into, their off-key arrangements creating more chaos in the process.”
Tagline: “Enmeshment in the key of me”.
(Currently on hand: Pilot Script and Written Pitch Bible. Will be shooting the POC-scene-trailer early this Spring)