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Stories

Read a range of original pilots, feature screenplays, and short stories that traverse genres of drama, coming-of-age, and social commentary. My scripts explore the conflict between identity and expectation with a focus on richly layered BIPOC characters as they navigate complex relationships through the lens of the Black experience.

Portrait of writer and creative strategist Abigail Moncoeur, founder of Moncoeur Creative, specializing in storytelling for film, games, and brands.

01

THE CAGED BIRD

A gifted law student with a hidden passion for music must decide between the life her strict Haitian father wants for her and the artist she was born to be. Two worlds collide in this coming of age pilot, following a young woman navigating love, legacy, and liberation.

02

STANDSTILL

After months of fighting, Dionne and Nasir have decided to call it quits. As Dionne carries the last of her belongings in the elevator, there's a power outage, confining them inside. With nowhere to hide, the two are forced to confront the truth about why their relationship ended and figure out if it's worth saving before the doors reopen.

A close-up of a typewriter page reading Standstill, representing stillness, introspection, and emotional storytelling by writer Abigail Moncoeur.
A cinematic desk setup featuring a typewriter, sketch, and script titled Quicksand, reflecting the nostalgia and weight of memory. This narrative expores an idea of how looking/living in the past is equivalent to sinking in quicksand.

03

QUICKSAND

After a devastating rejection from her dream internship, followed by a best friend breakup, a young aspiring director must confront the emotional baggage that clutters her apartment--and her mind. 

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QUICKSAND is a metaphorical and literal exploration of how looking/living in the past is the equivalent of sinking in quicksand.

04

SEVEN MINUTES

What defines a villain? Their actions or their motivations? Seven Minutes tells a tale of two lovers desperate to make a better life for themselves. What starts off with robbing a pharmacy for life-saving insulin evolves into a seven-minute heist that exposes the brutal cost of a broken healthcare system.

Typewriter resting on a basketball court floor with a script titled Hoops, merging the artistry of storytelling with the energy of sports and competition.
A vintage typewriter on a wooden desk near a rain-covered window, symbolizing creative storytelling, screenwriting, and narrative design by writer Abigail Moncoeur

05

TO REMEMBER YOU BY

After losing her parents in a fire, ten-year-old Celestine Moreau is sent to a foyer de l’enfance in Nice, where she meets Noémie, a bold and magnetic girl who becomes her confidante and first love. When Noémie is adopted, Celestine must face the reaper of abandonment all over again.

 

Years later, now living as “Calypso” in America, our twenty-five-year-old protagonist wrestles with identity, memory, and the ghost of her first love.​

06

HOOPS

HOOPS is a character-driven sports film that follows a young man alone on the basketball court working through drills as a way to ignore his harsh reality: he’s just lost $10,800 in savings to a crypto scam.

Typewriter resting on a basketball court floor with a script titled Hoops, merging the artistry of storytelling with the energy of sports and competition.
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