Jessica Cyrell & Danny Merritt – Young & Hungry
We’re featuring another Young & Hungry screenwriting duo, Jessica Cyrell & Danny Merritt to describe their writing journey. How young and how hungry do you need to be to win a place on the Young & Hungry list? What’s interesting in this industry is that “baby writers” seems to generally encompass anyone under the age […]
Ward Parry – Young & Hungry
Our next Young & Hungry screenwriter is Ward Parry. Having spent several years at the Guardian newspaper, Ward is a former Hollywood marketing exec turned screenwriter whose debut feature, Curtiz, won best film at the 2018 Montreal Film Festival. Earlier this year he set up his first TV pilot at Legendary with Tom Hardy producing and Atlas […]
Jeremy Michael Cohen – Young & Hungry
Our next Young & Hungry screenwriter is Jeremy Michael Cohen. His first feature film as a director, Yinz, is a microbudget feature that will be released in 2018. His 2017 script George is about Hans and Margret Rey, the authors of Curious George, and their incredible escape of the Nazi invasion of Paris. It was […]
Connie O’Donahue & Jeremy Nielsen – Young & Hungry
We have another Young & Hungry couple on our radar. Connie O’Donahue is a Sundance Episodic Story Lab Fellow currently living in Riverton, Wyoming, where she works for Wyoming PBS and radio station KCWC. Winner of the 2018 New York Television Festival (with her writing partner Jeremy Nielsen), Official Artist of the 2015 New York […]
Allison Lee – Young & Hungry
Allison Lee is our next Young & Hungry screenwriter. She received her MFA in Film and TV Production from USC. A recipient of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans Scholarship and an Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences Grant.. Lee has participated in the Hedgebrook Screenwriters Lab, the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive and the […]
