Dead in Committee official one sheet — a zombie senator stands before the U.S. Capitol as protesters hold signs reading Zombie Lives Matter and Undead is Un-American
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The Script
Horror Comedy 113 Pages David Ball · 2026

When zombies overrun the U.S. Capitol, a naive intern and a group of unlikely heroes must band together to save mankind from an undead apocalypse, provided their elected representatives don't kill them first.

Evil Dead  ·  meets  ·  Veep

When the ZOM‑B pandemic turns living, breathing humans into brain‑damaged but otherwise harmless walking corpses, America does what it does best: pick sides. On the left: Zombie Lives Matter. On the right: Undead Is Un‑American. As for our elected representatives? They're on the same side they've always been on. Their own.

So when Senate Majority Leader Mitch Stallman learns that ZOM‑B has mutated into a fast‑evolving strain that turns its victims into full‑blown, brain‑eating movie zombies, he devises a plan to ensure the House's historic ZOM‑B Bill of Rights not only dies in committee, but has the ACLU begging for ZOM‑B deportations.

The plan goes sideways in the most spectacular way possible. Stallman's sabotage triggers the newly mutated strain at the exact moment an unruly mob of protestors forces a full Capitol lockdown, sealing everyone inside.

Now it's up to four unlikely heroes — an idealistic first‑day intern, a grifting staffer, a snarky Capitol tour guide, and a street‑smart janitor with a mop fetish — to survive long enough to expose the truth. That is, until they discover the infection hasn't spread beyond these walls. Escaping means unleashing it on the world. And Mitch Stallman, now fully turned, has other plans entirely.

We open in a mall... because what self-respecting zombie movie doesn't?

Page one of Dead in Committee screenplay — the opening Z-Mart Black Friday scene
David Ball — screenwriter

David Ball

Screenwriter  ·  Southern Maine

David Ball is a Maine-based screenwriter specializing in horror, science fiction, and dark comedy. His screenplay, Chuck Hodges Conquers the Universe, was a semifinalist in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. A longtime content strategist and marketing writer, he has spent decades helping organizations tell compelling stories while developing original feature and television projects.

His latest feature, Dead in Committee, is a political horror-comedy about a zombie outbreak inside the U.S. Capitol.

David lives with his wife Sheila and their three dogs, Betty, Barney, and Wilma. Sheila works harder than he does. The dogs are freeloaders.

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