Writing
“Christopher's mind is dazzling. He should be required reading for anyone deeply interested in what it is to be alive.”
Christopher DeWan writes grounded sci-fi, horror, and horror-adjacent dramas for TV, film, and video games. He loves stories that explore the failed promises of the American Dream. He has created television projects with AwesomenessTV / Viacom, the Chernin Group, Electric Entertainment, and Showdog Studio, and his screenwriting has been recognized by CineStory, the International Screenwriters' Association, Final Draft, the PAGE Awards, and Sundance.
Disassembly, Original Series
After a Chinese robotics company disrupts life in a faltering American town, two siblings find themselves on opposite sides of the fight for the town's survival.
Live From Mars, Original Series
When an eccentric entrepreneur announces a privately funded one-way trip to Mars, the news excites and divides people around the world—including a disgraced astronaut who's willing to leave his family for a chance to lead the mission, and a wunderkind TV producer who decides she'll do anything to make this the biggest event in television history.
Sea of Dreams, Feature
In the new space race to the Moon, the U.S. is losing—but when a team of NASA astronauts receive a mayday from the Chinese base at the lunar south pole, it offers them a chance to rush to the rescue and restore their national pride. What they find won’t just threaten their lives; it will challenge everything they think about what it means to be an American.
Upstate, Feature
A washed-out minor league baseball player sees a chance to make good when his hometown is upset by a sudden spate of apparent sasquatch sightings—but his plan for a hoax-filled "Bigfoot safari" gets suddenly real when he puts his estranged wife and son in danger. A finalist for the PAGE Award.
Wunderland, Original Series
A teen hacker loves the new VR game Wunderland—but when she discovers it contains clues about her missing mother, she'll need to take risks in and out of the game to solve the mystery.
Zarathustra, Original Series
Friedrich Nietzsche and friends uncover secrets, fall in love, and fight vampires in a genre-bending adventure set during the rise of European fascism.
Hoopty Time Machines: fairy tales for grown ups
A wistful collection of domestic fabulism, from Atticus Books. ©2016.
Work and Other Essays
"Silly, heartbreaking, and unlike any you've seen before," with musings about Kyle MacLachlan, jackhammers, Sacramento, and getting hit by a van. ©2014.
Christopher DeWan has published more than fifty stories in journals including Hobart, Passages North, Pigeonholes, wigleaf, and X-ray. He has been included in Best Small Fictions (edited by Amy Hempel) and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.