{"id":1908,"date":"2026-01-08T00:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:07:33","slug":"derek-the-man-behind-the-myth-of-muddy-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2026\/01\/08\/derek-the-man-behind-the-myth-of-muddy-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek: The Man Behind the Myth of Muddy D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Logline: An overconfident karaoke-bar rapper proves his artistic integrity with an autobiographical documentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Page Count: 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Genre: Mockumentary, Comedy<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cast Breakdown:<br \/>\nDEREK (32M) prefers the title \u201ccreative\u201d to \u201cfailing karaoke-bar rapper.\u201d He takes the utmost pride in his plethora of crafts and is determined to share his art with the world, no matter what it takes.<br \/>\nLINDA (55F) is a mother who enjoys performing theater ballads at the local karaoke bar. She is a kind and supportive woman, although a little out of touch with the modern music scene.<br \/>\nJULIANNE (60F) is Derek\u2019s blindly supportive mother who has always known he was going to grow up to be a star. She is really excited about this documentary and is just as convinced as Derek that his big break is around the corner.<br \/>\nDAVE (64M) is a pharmaceutical salesman that also happens to be Derek\u2019s father. He is not as excited about Derek\u2019s failing career and doesn\u2019t understand exactly what the documentary will do to help him.<br \/>\nLANA (36F) an eccentric model that only helped Derek because of his so-called \u201cnuanced\u201d vision. She is rather disappointed with the objectifying results.<br \/>\nSECRETARY (40) a great obstacle to Derek\u2019s final goal. Sassy and rude and tired of nonsense.<br \/>\nBARTENDER<br \/>\nPATRON<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Location:<br \/>\nINT. MAN CAVE<br \/>\nINT. KARAOKE BAR<br \/>\nINT. NURSERY<br \/>\nEXT. SIDEWALK<br \/>\nINT. DEPT. STORE<br \/>\nINT. OFFICE<br \/>\nEXT. OFFICE BUILDING<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Credit:<br class=\"last\" \/>Written by Kiera Nusbaum<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Contact Info:<br \/>\nKnusbaum@chapman.edu, (818) 271-4494<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/03\/muddyd1212.pdf\">muddyd1212<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logline: An overconfident karaoke-bar rapper proves his artistic integrity with an autobiographical documentary. Page Count: 7 Genre: Mockumentary, Comedy Cast Breakdown: DEREK (32M) prefers the title \u201ccreative\u201d to \u201cfailing karaoke-bar rapper.\u201d He takes the utmost pride in his plethora of<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2026\/01\/08\/derek-the-man-behind-the-myth-of-muddy-d\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-pages","category-comedy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}