Books by Frank Semerano

3m, 3f / Comedy, Murder Mystery - Thriller / Unit set Myron Amberworth, a professor of paleontology at the local city college, is about to lose his job. It is only through what he believes is the fortuitous recruitment of two additional students, Dena and Knuckles, that he is allowed to keep his class. But Dena and Knuckles are in fact two members of a street gang known as the Scorpions, whose only motivation in enrolling is to heist the contents of a museum scheduled in a field trip. But Dena is enjoying her new life as a student much to the dismay of her father, Knuckles and Tilly, Myron's jealous girlfriend. Dena, thrown out of her house by her temperamental father, is forced to take up temporary residence at Myron's run down apartment. Dena's father, devoted as he is stubborn, practically moves in himself to keep an eye on his daughter and an increasingly distraught Myron. As Dena goes "good", Myron's colleague and department head goes "bad", and entrusts a stolen gem to the unknowing Myron. Lilah Davenport, a journalist, is murdered while chasing down the stolen gem and her ghost has fallen in love with the mortal Myron and searches desperately for a way to communicate the danger he now faces. "Harkens back to the classic fast and sassy film noir style. The script is smart."- The Tolucan Times "Deliciously Noir." - Studio City Sun

5m, 2f / Comedy / Unit set Count Zescu, a Vampire from the old country, takes up residence in the American southwest accompanied only by his coffin and Mattie, who is an all too amorous co-ed he can't seem to lose. Hot on the heels of this colorful entourage is Joyce Lyonhartt, a plucky and determined reporter who excels in disguises to get close to what seems to be a once in lifetime story. The Count settles down in dreary house near a secret army base, and witnesses a bat seemingly explode spontaneously. He stumbles upon a weapons experiment, which involves turning living bats into flying bombs, headed by old foe, Dr. Gunter. An escaped war criminal ironically hiding out in the country whose army is pursuing him, Dr. Gunter continues to wage his private little war, though now aware that his new nemesis may inform on him. On his way to challenging the commander of the Army base, however, the Count discovers he is the uncle of Mattie, and is himself looking to do in the "older man" his niece has run off with. New and old accounts are on their way to being settled during a late night dinner at the Count's estate.

4m, 3f / Comedy /Unit set Dr. Myles Stanton is an astronomer stationed at a lonely observatory in the desert, but his job isn't the only thing that keeps him in the dark. For Dr. Stanton is about to lose his wife, Hali, to Blaine, his lab assistant and best friend. Why Hali would find the luckless and accident prone Blaine to be a better catch than Myles is a mystery more baffling to the egocentric astronomer than any mystery he has ever viewed through his telescope. It's not just Blaine's obsession with an impending invasion from Mars that makes him seem such an odd choice for the sophisticated and lovely Hali. But what is it about him that has also earned the attention of three strangers dressed in trench coats, fedoras and dark glasses? Dr. Myles Stanton, left in charge of an obsolete observatory he was sure everyone had forgotten about, takes center stage in an international game of cat and mouse. It is the evening of the launch of Sputnik when world tensions were high and spies and sleeper cells were supposed to be everywhere. Invaders could come from anywhere. Perhaps even outer space. "It's been some fifty years when the "Russies" were thought to excel and lead when it came to the space race. Kaputnik shows how these "reds" were just red in the face- the same way that the theater audience will be after having a few good belly laughs!...They may have been first in space, but they still can't write a play as funny as this one!" - Accessibly Live "Reminiscent of the 1950's, Your show of shows"- Back Stage West "Falling and sweating and sputtering and strangling his subordinate, Myles is like Homer Simpson, complete with lab coat" - L.A. Weekly