Los Angeles, California
Kyle McNamara, portrait in black and white

Screenwriter · Producer · Actor · Novelist

KyleMcNamara

I write films, television and novels about the people most stories leave out, and I make them through my own company, Media Misfits.

I was born in Boulder, Colorado, and spent much of my youth on mission trips to Mexico, helping to build orphanages. I kept travelling after that, and have since lived in Rio de Janeiro, St. Thomas and Fiji. Today I work in Los Angeles as a screenwriter, producer, actor and novelist. Those years away shape what I write: stories about social injustice and lives that rarely reach the screen, told without softening the hard parts.

Next on set November 2026 Pine Barrens, directed by Marcel Walz.
Minimum guarantee $350,000 Contemplated in a worldwide distribution LOI for Intrusive.
Television Pilot premiered After Hours. I produced it and play one of the leads.
Festival laurels 24, with 8 wins Across Gush and the screenplays for Intrusive and Two for Juan.
Feature films

On the slate

Intrusive key art: two bloodied hands clasped together, with the tagline It's already inside
Psychological horror · In financing

Intrusive

When a struggling Los Angeles couple takes a new designer drug that strips away their inhibitions, a night meant to reconnect becomes a fight to survive each other, and a city surrendering to its darkest impulses.

I wrote Intrusive and I am producing it. It is a contained feature built on performance, tension and atmosphere: one apartment, one night, and a 15-day shoot.

$350,000

Minimum guarantee. IndustryWorks Studios issued a letter of intent to distribute the finished film worldwide. The LOI contemplates a US$350,000 minimum guarantee on delivery, subject to a long-form distribution agreement.

Be part of Intrusive

Intrusive on Wefunder ↗

intrusive-film.com ↗

Writer / Producer
Kyle McNamara
Director / Producer
Bob Cook
Estimated budget
$300,000
Principal photography
15 days
Production
Intrusive Film LLC / Media Misfits
Screenplay laurels · 6, including 2 wins
  • WinnerCult Movies International Awards2024
  • WinnerMedusa Film Awards2024
  • FinalistMulti Dimension International Film Festival2025
  • FinalistAthens International Monthly Art Film Festival2025
  • Semi-finalistBrussels World Film Festival2024
  • Official selectionLondon Vision Film Festival2026
Two for Juan title art: a film by Kyle McNamara, with the tagline From So So to Famoso
Comedy · In development · Script complete

Two for Juan

“From So So to Famoso”

When the wrong man is deported, his new friend has no choice but to take his place in the spotlight.

A mistaken-identity comedy with friendship, family and immigration at its heart. Cristo Fernández plays both Juans. Esai Morales plays the man closing in on them.

twoforjuan-film.com ↗

Writer
Kyle McNamara
Director
Gary “Gaz” Alazraki
Attached cast
Cristo Fernández · Esai Morales
Production
Media Misfits
Screenplay laurels · 4, including 1 win
  • WinnerMontreal Independent Film Festival2026
  • Quarter-finalistOutstanding Screenplays2026
  • Official selectionRED Movie Awards2026
  • Official selectionBIMIFF, Brazil International Monthly Independent Film Festival2026
Filming November 2026

Pine Barrens

Written by Kyle McNamara & Sharon Desiree · Directed by Marcel Walz
Feature · Pre-production

Cameras roll in November 2026.

I co-wrote Pine Barrens with Sharon Desiree. Marcel Walz directs and Brendan Petrizzo produces.

Writers
Kyle McNamara & Sharon Desiree
Director
Marcel Walz
Producer
Brendan Petrizzo
Shoot
November 2026
Also in development · Six finished scripts
  • Eugenics posterEugenicsScript complete · Pitch deck
  • Gnarly Xmas posterGnarly XmasScript complete · Pitch deck
  • Stay posterStayScript complete · One-sheet
  • Fowl Play posterFowl PlayScript complete · One-sheet
  • Biscuits and Gravy posterBiscuits and GravyScript complete · One-sheet
  • The Christmas Card Contract posterThe Christmas Card ContractScript complete · One-sheet

Every title on the slate has a finished script. Scripts, decks and one-sheets go out to producers, financiers and buyers on request.

Television

The pilot

Half-hour ensemble comedy · Pilot premiered · Trailer 2:17

After Hours

At a barely functional neighborhood sports bar, a dysfunctional crew of bartenders, servers, owners and professional screwups survive terrible customers, disastrous relationships, questionable management and each other.

I produced the pilot and play one of the leads. The bar is The Dusty Cougar. The doors lock, the staff pours themselves a drink, and the real show begins. The series has a three-season plan.

thedustycougar.com ↗

Producer / Lead actor
Kyle McNamara
Written by
Spencer Cadigan & Piper Major
Representation
Firestone Films
Format
Half-hour series
Short films

Shorts

Gush poster: a film by Kyle McNamara
Proof of concept for Intrusive · 14K+ views

Gush

A new designer drug promises to remove inhibition. Gush was made to prove the premise, tone and pacing of Intrusive before the feature.

A film by
Kyle McNamara
Cast
Sharon Desiree · Sarina De Viso · Iris Goehring
Production
Media Misfits

Watch Gush on YouTube ↗

Festival laurels · 14, including 5 wins
  • WinnerSeattle Independent Film Festival2024
  • WinnerNYC Independent Film Festival2024
  • WinnerMedusa Film Awards2024
  • WinnerMagic Silver Screen2024
  • WinnerCult Movies International Awards2024
  • FinalistMulti Dimension International Film Festival2025
  • FinalistRed Moon Film Festival2024
  • Semi-finalistRome International Movie Awards2025
  • Semi-finalistDublin Movie Awards2025
  • Semi-finalistPrague Underground Film Festival2025
  • Honorable mentionAthens International Monthly Art Film Festival2025
  • Official selectionAstoria Horrorfest2025
  • Official selectionGolden Beach Film Festival2025
  • Official selectionAnthology Film Festival2024
Short film · Coming soon · Trailer 0:46

Standing In

Short film · Trailer

Roses Are Red

On camera

Acting

  • After HoursLead role · Series pilot

Full credits on IMDb ↗

Fiction

Books

Novel · Published

Eugenics

A hidden island. A people stronger, faster and smarter than anyone on earth. One of them has just reached London.

When Freyja escapes her island in the North Sea and surfaces in London, MI6 turns to Eugene King III, an Oxford anthropologist who has spent his career on the history of eugenics, and whose ex is the agent now asking for his help. The islanders arrived wearing eighty-year-old jackets with Nazi emblems on the sleeves. Someone made them, and someone wants them back.

Also in development as a feature at Media Misfits

Eugenics on Amazon ↗

Novel

Conscious

A neuroscientist builds a machine to prove that human minds connect. A rival builds one to make them obey.

At the Sorbonne, Elena Moreau is close to showing that brainwaves sync when people are truly present with each other. In London, Dr. Caleb Rourke has a transmitter that can calm a crowd at the press of a button, and a room full of officials who want their streets quiet. Elena has kept one thing out of her science since she was twelve: when she prays, things happen. With Theo, her oldest friend and a pianist who has stopped writing music, she has to decide what her discovery is for before someone else decides for her. The story moves between Paris and London, with voices from Gaza, Tibet and Venice.

Novel · Working title

Irish Goodbye

One family, three generations, and a Belfast-born physicist whose past will not stay put.

The Sloane family saga moves between Belfast during the Irish War of Independence, the Second World War, and Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor, New York in the 1990s. It is told by Declan, his daughter Nora and his son Finn.

Children's book · Written and illustrated by Kyle

Little Dipper

A love story about bears, about curiosity, and about who we are told to fear.

Long before humans, in a great forest in what is now China, a clan of bears lives under the watch of Ursa, the bear in the night sky. Alla is the twenty-first cub, the one her parents named Miracle, and she asks too many questions. Her father warns her about the nomadic Black Bears beyond the village. Then she falls, quite literally, into one, and he has the kindest eyes she has ever seen.

Little Dipper on Amazon ↗

In print

Press

Contact

Get in touch

Investors, distributors, producers, cast and press. Tell me what you are after and I will send the right materials: scripts, decks, budgets or screeners.

Email
kyle@media-misfits.com
Phone
(323) 547-8250