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Sometimes I make me laugh 😂 From my latest work in progress, AFFORDABLE CARE: When a 26-year-old single woman finds a brain tumor right after being booted from her parents’ health insurance, she must find someone to marry - and fast - in order to get on their plan and afford to receive treatment.

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When did you decide you wanted to pursue writing as a career path? I loved writing when I was very small and wrote stories up through high school, but fell off of the creative writing train in college. Didn't pick it back up until 2020. Decided to pursue it "for real" around 2021.

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Feels good to revisit an old first draft of a script you want to fully overhaul and realize the first act is actually in pretty okay shape! Acts two and three, on the other hand...

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Episode 38 of my screenwriting podcast "The Writer's Cut" is out today! Did we discover the platonic ideal of a well-structured screenplay? Listen to us discuss THE DEFIANT ONES and decide for yourself!

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Fellow first-draft under-writers: what's the shortest first draft of a feature you've ever churned out? Asking on behalf of an embarrassingly short "feature" of which I just finished the initial "exploratory draft" (0th draft) lol.

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Still gotta move all my stuff back in but: I love how the color turned out!!

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When my road trip comedy feature BIG SKY COUNTRY makes it big and earns trillions of dollars, I’ll be ready with the sequel: BIG SKY COUNTRIES: THE EUROPEAN ADVENTURE (I’m like 99% joking about this btw)

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New office calls for a new paint job

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Time off between shows at work means writing whenever the heck I want and honestly it’s giving “quit-your-day-job”. I (probably) won’t any time soon but it sure is nice to dream!

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It's a very strange feeling to watch a script you wrote not place in contests you submitted to awhile ago while currently getting some actual industry attention lol

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Good vibes received!

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Good vibes would be appreciated for one hour and fifteen minutes from now ✨

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There's a hot dog festival near my neighborhood next week and I desperately want to go, but do you think the vendors would let me bring my own gluten-free buns?? BYOBuns???

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We’re doing it again! A Chicago screenwriter meetup! Monday, June 16, 2025 6:30-9:30pm @ The Long Room (In their back room) 1612 W Irving Park Rd

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Somehow just put together literally right now that an upcoming episode of my podcast would be very appropriate for a famous former coworker to be a guest on?? Brb working on my podcast guest invite email

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Was watching THE X-FILES last night when I heard Mulder refer to a major East Coast interstate highway as: "The I-95" Something like "I'm getting on the I-95" What a giveaway that your writers are from California 😂 (A real East Coaster would just say "95" or maybe "I-95", no "the")

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Episode 37 of my podcast “The Writer’s Cut” is out today!! Listen to us discuss GIGI, winner of “Best Written Musical” at the 11th WGA Awards!

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Someday I will be brave enough to treat the entire Chicago screenwriter meetup event to a shot of malört Tonight was not the night but I feel it’s coming soon

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I hate to talk shit (Jk I love it) But my literary manager has done more for me in the last few months than my previous manager did for me in two years And that’s pretty cool!

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We’re here, Chicago screenwriters! Come to the Long Room!

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I've been approached by a lot of screenwriting newbies lately (not really sure how they've been finding me) and it feels good to help them as much as I can but it's also kind of exhausting?? Makes me really appreciate all the more established folks who stepped up and gave me advice early on.

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I had a breast exam in late 2017 that seemed normal, found a lump on my own in January 2018, was diagnosed with stage 2B breast cancer by February. This shit comes on fast, even when you’re being monitored regularly.

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My favorite part of this show’s backstage track is when three of the women I dress RUN to their next costume change because they’re pretending to escape from committing a bank robbery 🤣 I love the sense of play that’s existed behind the scenes on this one!

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Read @leahfromsd.bsky.social’s new draft of THE LOCKSMITH on my dinner break at work tonight, and now I’m having some mild abdominal cramps and, well… give it a read and you’ll see why I’m so unsettled right now 🤣

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I know it’s early but I could use some good vibes for a pretty rad meeting next week!

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Turns out it’s hard to lose weight when your coworkers keep bringing in donuts and making sure to get gluten-free options for you specifically so you don’t feel left out Like damn why’d you have to be so THOUGHTFUL

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“Breast cancer survivor” will remain in all of my bios at this time, as it is arguably my biggest accomplishment to date. Here’s hoping that someday I achieve something that overshadows that.

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I swear to god if I somehow manage to get BIG SKY COUNTRY made before BREAST IN SHOW I will be fucking baffled

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Apparently the All-American Rejects are playing at a DIY venue in a house across the street from mine tonight?? Note the tour bus and the line of folks all the way down the block

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The sweetest girl at daycare

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Just improvised an emergency hairstyle on an actor at work and it looks pretty darn good for an improv. Feeling like maybe I don’t completely suck at this!

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Last week with this wonderful show full of incredible people. I’m glad to get the extra time off before our big summer musical, but I’m still gonna miss these folks!

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It’s intermission and I just gotta say: HADESTOWN moves me in the same kinda way seeing an ancient Roman theater in Italy moved me, like “hey guys, we’re still doing this! We’re still telling the stories!!” Anyway I’m just openly weeping from the back row of the balcony lol

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Episode 36 of my podcast “The Writer’s Cut” is out today! Listen to us discuss LES GIRLS, a musical with Gene Kelly!

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Funny how every individual day waiting on a response feels like agony but when you finally get good news it's like "oh, that was only five weeks? that wasn't so bad"

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I spy a @leahfromsd.bsky.social!!! THE MILDEN MISFITS is a truly killer pilot, and a series I'd love to watch!

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I rallied

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It’s my coworker’s birthday today and they invited me out after work so now I’m left deciding whether or not I feel like keeping up with a bunch of 24-25 year olds at a bar lol

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Came home to some very good “Red Devil” swag in the mail! Really hoping I can get time off from work to go see this

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Someone on my train car literally shit themselves and it was darkly funny to see everyone else in the car notice the smell, look around at each other, and silently agree to switch cars at the next stop

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This entire group of folks I’m working with right now, both cast and crew, are all so sweet and supportive and I’m glad that if I had to work on an objectively shitty day in my personal life that at least I was surrounded by awesome people

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