About Me

Hi! I’m Toby. It’s really great to meet you.

 

Just in case it comes up later, I’m sorry if I forget your name, I’m awful at names. And faces. And smells. That’s not relevant to you, I’m not saying you smell, just, I don’t really have much of that sense. Most people have one sense that’s better than all their others, but… sorry, I don’t know how I got onto this topic, I should have talked through this About Me page with someone before writing. You definitely don’t smell. I mean, probably. Can we start again?

 

Hello – I’m Toby, and thank you for visiting my website. (I think this round is going much more smoothly, don’t you?) You ever notice how you have people in your life that are shiny and well-adjusted who always say the right thing and then you have other people in your life that you make dinosaur noises with? Well, you’ve read this far (thank you!), so I think (hope?) that maybe this could be the start of a beautiful dinosaur-noises friendship. Not to presume, it’s totally reasonable if you don’t want to make dinosaur noises. Most people don’t.

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I have been told by many intelligent people in the industry that I need to specialize, so I’ve decided that I write coming-of-age LGBT fantasy stories. Which is completely true, except for the few scripts that don’t have an LGBT protagonist. And one or two scripts without a fantasy element. But they are all about characters coming-of-age! (You're never too old to figure out who you want to be.) 

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One of my biggest achievements in 2024 was having my script The Illuminati Kid chosen as a finalist in the ScreenCraft Animation and Family competition, coming in the top 10 out of around 900 entries.