Albert’s one-hour crime-drama pilot script Renaissance Town was selected as one of five finalist projects for a Stage 32 Open Writing Assignment with a literary manager who staffs writers at major networks and streamers.

The OWA was seeking fresh, serialized mystery pilots with intricate plotting, suspense, emotional stakes, and strong character engines. That mandate was especially aligned with Renaissance Town, written by Albert, a mystery drama in the vein of American Crime meets Mare of Easttown, where a killing in a struggling Rust Belt city opens up questions of identity, ambition, belonging, and what a community is willing to bury in order to reinvent itself.

When a beloved young woman is raped and murdered in a Rust Belt city remaking itself as a refugee haven, Utica’s first Karen Burmese police officer is torn between her badge, her family, and her community as she risks everything to clear her brother in a case powerful people are determined to simplify.

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