Johnny Gilligan

(310) 945-7707

Born in Ireland into a family of cops, Johnny jumped ship and became a coder in Silicon Valley. Later, Johnny took up acting where, ironically, he plays a lot of cops...

Four years ago, his mother's sudden death, while he was 10,000 miles away on a movie set, ignited his screenwriting journey.

Johnny mines his day job working in cutting-edge technology, his acting, and his life experience as the son of a wheelchair mother, to create grounded scifi stories led by richly complex characters.

Honors & Awards

Page Awards - GOLD PRIZE WINNER SCI-FI - 2023

Final Draft Big Break - TOP 5 SCI-FI - 2020

9 OVERALL 8 OUT 10's ON BLCKLST.COM

non-WGA

Male, 40+

THE STREAM

Grounded Sci-Fi Feature - LOOPER meets THE DISCOVERY

In the near future, when a tech company perfects a way to communicate with the dead in a scientifically discovered afterlife, known as The Stream, a failed novelist fights to save his daughter’s soul from being permanently erased by the company’s CEO… his estranged brother.

INHERITANCE

Grounded Sci-Fi Feature - TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY meets MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

When alien DNA is discovered in an innocent Native Alaskan teen, a tenacious geneticist fights to stop her shadowy biotech bosses from weaponizing him.

LIFELINK

Grounded Sci-Fi Feature - DIE HARD meets FINAL DESTINATION

When bio-implants give users 24-hour notice of their death, a grieving ex-marine fights to undo the past-death of his daughter, unearthing a catastrophic secret about the implants and their creator.

Character-driven, Science, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Male, 40+

unrepped