SPENSER WISE

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Spenser Wise is a writer, performer, and multimedia artist.

WRITING

Kept Men (2025)

Logline: When his search for a missing friend leads him to a secretive billionaire, a young homeless fugitive becomes a live-in test subject at the man’s remote estate, where an obsession with aging fuels a sinister experiment.

Second Round Pick at the International Screenwriters’ Association
Second Round Pick at the Austin Film Festival
Top 50 Semifinalist at the Stage 32 and Mammoth Pictures Search for New Blood

Chamber (2025)

Logline: After a Cajun twin brother and sister pose as newlyweds to score a discount tour of the Paris Catacombs, they’re drawn into a deadly cult ritual that forces them to confront the true limits of their bond.

Top 10 Finalist at the Stage 32 and Mammoth Pictures Search for New Blood

ART

"You're Insane!" A Cinematic Collage (2026)

A found footage video essay tracing film’s relationship to sanity through the varied repetition of the phrase “You’re Insane!”, revealing how the trope and our understanding of mental illness (and lack thereof) shift over ninety years of cinema.

Mother is a Metaphor for Madness (2025)

Through looping sound, live manipulated video projection, and embodied trance, this performance is a multimedia exorcism of a generational curse—part ritual, part psychological unraveling.

Don't You Wanna Live Forever? (2015)

Exploring the archetype of an artist who yearns for his "body of work" to carry on, knowing his own limited form is fading fast...

BIO

Spenser Wise is a writer, performer, musician, and multimedia artist from southern Louisiana, now based in Madison, Wisconsin. A Middlebury College graduate with a BA in Music, his work spans screenwriting, video art, performance, and music, with training in creative writing, composition, and experimental media. Spenser has presented original video art with the Mills Folly Microcinema, developed and performed multimedia work for Broom Street Theater, and acted and sang in two full-run productions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he has also served as a production assistant. His creative practice extends to access-focused education, including teaching film and screenwriting to children and young adults with disabilities at Camp Creatability and adapting international folktales for young readers with World Stories Bank. Spenser’s screenwriting has been recognized by the Austin Film Festival and the International Screenwriters’ Association. His latest script, Chamber, is a Top 10 Finalist in Stage32’s Search for New Blood with Mammoth Pictures. He enjoys learning languages and traveling, and can be found volunteering at The Moth or singing karaoke when he’s not writing something suspenseful…

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