who even is she
“Always make the big small and the small big. And it’s not about the plot, it’s about the people…”
Lindsay grew up 98.8% Jewish in a small and mostly conservative suburb of Sacramento, not far from where the Golden State Killer was captured (a fact which still thoroughly freaks her out). Romance/YA novels and The WB network's slate provided her escape and guidebook throughout the tumultuous years of adolescence.
Her imagination followed her into high school and college at Cal State University, Northridge where she found out she could use her imagination as a monetizer. Whether in detailing the antics she and her best friend got into traipsing across seven European countries, the crazy “Lana Turner” way she got her first writers room job, or that time she nearly lost her ear in a train's waiting room when she was nine, Lindsay has no shortage of material to draw upon for the light 1-hr dramedies she writes. From her clever and eccentric POV, she writes about ride-or-die female friendships, her Jewish heritage, and love in all its forms.
She started her professional career working as a talent assistant at Gersh and then later as writers room support staff. In the past year, her supernatural banshee drama pilot, LADY DEATH, placed at Austin Film Festival, Launch Pad Pilot Competition, Final Draft’s Big Break contest, and numerous others. Her other drama pilot, FRÄULEIN RUTH, a limited series drama pilot based on the life of famed sex therapist, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, also placed in Screencraft's Drama Competition.
When she’s not writing, you can find her kvetching about the weather and whether it’s too cold, reading every YA/romance book, and listening to whatever musical theatre album she’s currently obsessing over.
Lindsay was a 2020 Women in Film Mentee and is currently drafting her fourth romance novel.
things i’ve thought up
LADY DEATH
Semifinalist in Final Draft’s Big Break Competition; Second round in Austin Film Festival; Top 100 in Launch Pad Pilot Competition; Top 100 of each genre in ISA’s Table Read My Screenplay Contest for Austin Film Festival; Finalist in the Page Turner Screenplay Awards
LADY DEATH: (1 hr, Supernatural Teen Dramedy): ROSWELL meets iZOMBIE. A sixteen year-old banshee supposed to deliver a message of death to a teenage boy, instead, spontaneously decides to save him, blindsided by the inextricable bond she feels for him.
BREAKING THE CODE
8 on Blacklist Site, Two-time recommended script for WGA Solidarity Challenge
BREAKING THE CODE (1 hr, Dramedy): THE LAST TYCOON meets THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL. Loosely based on the lives and real life friendship of actress Mary Pickford and screenwriter Frances Marion, it is a one hour historical drama which follows two young adults who must navigate their careers in 1930's Hollywood, while also trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be
BIPARTISAN
Quarterfinalist in the Finish Line Script Contest
BIPARTISAN (Feature, Rom-com): THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT meets THE BEST MAN. After a brief relationship during their time in the Senate, two fiercely different candidates face off in a contentious Presidential election despite their lingering feelings for one another
people who like me
BREAKING THE CODE being read at the BREAKTHROUGH READING SERIES in 2017
“I’ve read a lot of @evianisnaive’s scripts, but her latest pilot LADY DEATH is my favorite. Lindsay is perfect and ready to staff on your CW teen show! #WGAStaffingBoost #preWGA”
“DRAMEDY SHOWRUNNERS: w BREAKING THE CODE, @evianisnaive is writing the show she wants to watch. A period hour-long based on the friendship btwn Mary Pickford & Frances Marion. Yes, it’s a perfect Maisel sample, but Lindsay has nailed complicated camaraderie. ”
“In a modern world that is so highly discordant, so volatile and ready to disagree, this script’s potential is a breath of fresh air. The very idea of a progressive liberal and a conservative getting along feels impossible. But Lila and Michael’s love story just might give some people pause, and ultimately prove that notion wrong.”
“BREAKING THE CODE by @evianisnaive is a delightful, MRS MAISEL-esque period piece about the bond between two women—a budding starlet & a wannabe screenwriter—as they set out to change the game in Golden Age Hollywood. ”
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