https://www.emilycmcdermott.com/comedy daily 0.75 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616279673897-R2SZZPTADT7D5U6UBH3U/Me+waving+from+stage+%28square%29.jpg Comedy - ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES: Writer, Director, Performer Wrote, directed and performed sketch comedy revue to sold-out audiences at The Second City, Chicago (November 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616276705817-QYM662PIY8PMWDTFC1GE/Interns+outside+arches.jpg Comedy - Tour Co. The Second City Director, for the Second City Touring Companies. (June 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616278508459-4SOIFFRZ6UP1N1L3ENBO/The+Garden+of+Delusion.jpg Comedy - The Second City Coached Ensembles Gained a place on one of Second City’s coveted “Coached Ensembles”. Played a month-long run of shows at Second City’s Skybox theatre with winning ensemble The Garden of Delusion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616278624309-WK27SG8REW1YWY1J9S8C/Before+%28cropped%29.jpg Comedy - Pillow Fight Winners Improv team Sweaty Donuts crowned Winners of Improv Battle-of-the-Bands “Pillow Fight” at The Second City Chicago. Won a month-long run of shows in Second City’s Skybox Theatre. (July 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616279932524-QPBWYNLOYPQQI0NDWTTM/house+team+3.jpg Comedy - Opened for House Team, The Second City, Chicago Opened for Second City’s House Team Twisty every night for a year with improv team Sweaty Donuts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616277081783-4B0PQ3HM3WM0T8UYCYBP/Improv+C+-+sat+onstage+with+Mark+Czoske.JPG Comedy - THE SECOND CITY CONSERVATORY PROGRAM Performed weekly improv shows after auditioning and gaining a place on The Second City's year-long improv program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617227856546-JGCV8QBU5FO9L8DXEHNU/Selfie+with+Amber.jpg Comedy - THE SECOND CITY MUSIC IMPROV PROGRAM Auditioned and gained a place on The Second City’s year-long Music Improv Conservatory. Performed weekly shows improvising a full-length musical on the spot from a single audience suggestion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616278403344-5FQ7S7N91QZNS479PYF0/iO+Level+1.JPG Comedy - iO Chicago Improv Graduated iO Chicago’s improv program, September 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/ac6f1028-ea3e-4f0b-a845-cf7f7124ff55/Me+onstage.jpg Comedy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/bde87d75-5182-4400-81f9-54d9733f3e93/Weekend+Update+with+Gabi+and+Tina+Fey.jpg Comedy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/f5f6c397-5fe3-4d56-b43d-3081f84f547d/Stage+-+You.jpg Comedy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/e4623976-4706-4c93-8383-7fbbae6d0c38/Clown+rehearsal+photo+%28square%29.jpg Comedy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/c4b6a837-7343-4db9-a810-8bdce3d0ef8d/Me+in+empty+skybox+%28square%29.jpg Comedy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/a92000bc-0e03-43a0-8a3c-146554deebf9/Rehearsal+-+group.JPG Comedy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/ba30ff91-689f-4a4a-8a00-c2568cd96735/me+onstage+%283%29+%28SQUARE%29.jpg Comedy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/ededb9a6-3940-4865-9793-1938f7d1e594/Stage+-+group+%28SQUARE%29.jpg Comedy https://www.emilycmcdermott.com/home daily 1.0 2025-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617224685139-O4WTF0R9CDX60EV1RCQ9/Dark%252BMatter%252BRehearsal.jpg Home - Full-length play about domestic terrorism Dark Matter selected as part of Chicago’s New Works Festival, Wirtz Center, Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616273740188-1KDQLWSCNB8ZOY7P2HXO/Reset+stock+image.jpg Home - RESET WINNER - VAIL FILM FESTIVAL WINNER - WESCREENPLAY SHORTS COMPETITION FINALIST - L.A. INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY COMPETITION FINALIST - BARNSTORM MEDIA FESTIVAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616819606250-TDZB4SGOHZSSWYWR7Z52/Me+waving+from+stage.JPG Home - History-themed sketch revue Alternative Histories performs to sold-out audiences at The Second City, Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616819744208-5GKVNT4YCHNYBKP0DKQ2/Music%2BTheatre%2BClass%2B%252B%2BMasi%2BAsare%252C%2BWednesday%2B11th%2BMarch%2B2020.jpg Home - Improv: the Musical receives staged reading at Wirtz Center, Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617990438029-FXGT02D1BFAKOE2FYIDV/2021-03-20+%286%29.png Home - Short film Devil’s Egg wins Best Director and Best Film at 48-Hr Film Festival, Raises $2940 for Coronavirus Frontline Fund https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616276092429-OO48TJSEGKNNK25TT1KO/house+team+3.jpg Home - Sketchcast Show Circus-ise performed to sold-out audiences at Judy’s Beat Lounge, Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1615945531492-6UPJTPKVOUG9VD0UXQHE/49203245_364238454125966_5814011569767448576_n.jpg Home Short film Philosopher’s Nightmare wins “Best Short” at Northwestern University Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1615946101003-0KM3VMD998TW7TZAN8EI/BBC+%282%29.JPG Home - ELECTION PIECE COMMISSIONED BY BBC NEWS AND BBC SUNDAY POLITICS BBC Northwest Tonight Political Reporter. https://www.emilycmcdermott.com/you daily 0.75 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616102093092-8NJJC0QZYW0KZ24OSCHD/Clownfish+poster.jpg Film - CLOWNFISH COMING-OF-AGE; ROMANCE; LGBTQ+ (FEATURE) Clownfish is a love story between an intersex teenager and a new girl that joins her High school, set in 2007 when the term “intersex” was first being used. As a baby, Alice’s parents resisted pressure from medical experts to give her ‘the surgery’, arguing it was non-consensual. Whilst they were right, now aged fourteen Alice’s classmates grow cruel on discovering her mixed genitalia. She’s horrifically bullied and assumes this will be her life until a new girl, Billie, joins the school. Billie hasn’t learned that it’s social suicide to be with Alice. They become friends and eventually fall in love; tender, emotionally-charged teenage love. Alice, with her parents’ help, eventually tearfully reveals to Billie she is intersex, expecting her to walk out of her life. On the contrary, Billie helps her to love her body. Despite Alice’s initial tragedies, this story departs from the usual LGBTQ+ romantic drama that ends in heartbreak or suicide. It’s a story about how someone you meet when you’re fourteen can completely alter your life, even if you never see them again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616821017261-UD526H4BQ8FGPALVKYI6/Ballam+valley+poster.jpg Film - BALLAM VALLEY COMING-OF-AGE; DRAMEDY (FEATURE) Anna, a quixotic 11-year-old growing up in rural Ireland dreams of being in the Hollywood movies of the 40s and 50s. In fact, her life is so mundane to her that she often escapes from her repetitive life into her own head where she places herself in a starring role and creates a ‘Hollywood remake’ of the scene she has just witnessed, turning a misplaced bus ticket or school assembly into high drama in black and white. The jarring juxtaposition of mature adult sensibilities and the body of an eleven-year-old girl provides comic incongruity. Anna’s narratorial voice is darkly comic, sarcastic and cynical about everything except for the film world she longs to inhabit. The confusion of Anna’s life as she tries to handle the breakdown of her parents’ marriage at home and the – rather confusing – mix of puberty and extreme religion at school only encourage her to fantasise more and more until she is emotionally removed from her real life. We discover she’s not just a dreamy little girl with a funny imagination. She needs these fantasies in order to escape a very difficult home life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616821105857-5R4I1X1MTSBL7ICJTCN7/Taboo+poster.jpg Film - TABOO THRILLER; DRAMA; DYSTOPIA (FEATURE) It is 2034. Everyone on Earth has a word count of 250 words per day. Go over the word count and you face sudden death. Loosely based on Sam Steiner’s play Lemons x5, Taboo is the story of a world where language is limited. Free speech has been curtailed. It’s blatant fascism, but it also has some good side effects. It forces people to really think before they speak. Everything they say has to be meaningful or is a waste. People find clever ways round it like Morse Code and Sign Language, until the government bans sign language altogether, leaving deaf people effectively without communication and in total silence. Written words begin to count towards your word count, so TV shows are very spare in dialogue. Other forms of communication like physical touch and music take on a new importance. Just as Twitter did, halfway through the film the world’s daily word count is cut in half. A resistance league forms and tries to fight back. They have illegal underground language meetings for poets, writers, rappers, opera singers and form an Artists Coalition that takes on the government. It forces an immediate reckoning with our stances on free speech but is also a study in only saying what really needs to be said, a study in what’s really important. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616102466531-14IJHVIFQ1JY89JZ54HO/Antikind+%28Dominic+Cummings%29.jpg Film - ANTIKIND THRILLER; POLITICAL (FEATURE) A political thriller about a government conspiracy to plant ideas in our dreams. They collaborate with the best psychologists in the world to work out how to curate what a person sees or does in their dreams. Rather than using cookies to curate a person’s online experience (to show them ads for things they’ll like), the government instead places images and colours in those ads that they know will translate into certain things in that person’s dreams later that night e.g. if they see red during the day, they will commit some form of violence in their dream. As the psychologists’ research tightens, the government gets better at this and grows more specific in the things they can control in people’s dreams, turning them into warped, Alice in Wonderland-esque horror-scapes. As these people’s dreams become increasingly vivid – and they’re committing more and more crimes in these dreams - the line between what is a dream and what is reality begins to blur. They start to commit crimes in real life, believing it to be a dream, so that they are now committing these crimes of their own free will. We discover it was a psychological study all along to test out the question: are people intrinsically good or intrinsically bad? Can a person who has dark thoughts or dreams override those with kind actions? Their subjects, disappointingly, fall into their trap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616821162003-V1Y9K4QNA9QIHOELLWXU/Reset+stock+image.jpg Film - RESET DRAMA; DEAFNESS (SHORT) Reset is a short drama set in Los Angeles that centres around Danny Dimello: a veteran from the Syrian war suffering from PTSD who discovers audio therapy and is able to combat his past traumas through music. Reset explores the use of a pioneering new audio therapy for veterans with PTSD that only began in 2016. The patient wears a BAUD (Bioacoustical Utilisation Device) which plays incongruous music whenever the veteran has a painful memory. Danny is able to use this music to work through his most painful memories and learn to live in them without fear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617256561995-Q2M7KKDEKIK301F2M9NW/49204450_364238617459283_496432802770714624_n+%282%29.jpg Film - THE PHILOSOPHER’S NIGHTMARE Philosophical; Whimsical; Comedy; Silent Film (SHORT) A Philosophy student falls asleep and is plagued by the world’s most unsolvable philosophical problems, from the chicken and the egg, to Buridan’s Ass, to the Molyneux Problem, who come to life on campus and torture her until she wakes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617341201425-P9GR4OKK46D6D818M7M1/IMG_2502.PNG Film - REFLECT HORROR/DRAMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL (SHORT) A teenage girl’s suicidal thoughts come to life in the form of a frightening monster that appears in mirrors when she is looking at herself. Being horrifically bullied at school, this monster becomes a manifestation of her own self-hatred and peer pressures her into putting herself in dangerous situations, such as self-harming or walking into traffic. It is only when she learns to love herself that the monster is appeased. The monster never goes away, but we can learn to love it and treat it more kindly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617341337031-D3Z9DDGRNVNBFGLKZ66I/2021-03-20+%281%29.png Film - DEVIL’S EGG 1940s; ROMANCE; FILM NOIR; PARODY (SHORT) A 1940s romance between a woman and an egg who is heir apparent to the Eggerson fortune. She sleeps with him for his money, but is soon stopped in her tracks by his evil sister, “Shelley”. **Winner of 48-Hour Lockdown Film Festival (Best Picture and Best Director) **Raised $2,940 for Coronavirus Frontline Fund. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617341858378-GTKHV3UYQYTBZSJHQ66E/2021-04-01+%2813%29.png Film - TOO MANY SUPERHEROES MARVEL MOVIE; PARODY (SHORT) A select number of students at Northwestern University wake up one morning with superpowers. The government assumes they will use these for global good or evil. They in fact use them to help pass very stressful finals exams. https://www.emilycmcdermott.com/theatre daily 0.75 2022-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616127822153-Z223M2V91IHHVAWS2RYJ/Directing+in+birmingham+hall%2C+head+down+looking+at+script.jpg Theatre In rehearsals for Edinburgh Festival, July 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616128130579-9AA7DNT8R3G6NB82K702/Frida+and+Dido+laughing.jpg Theatre - Frida Kahlo (left) and Dido Queen of Carthage (right). Frida Kahlo (left) and Dido Queen of Carthage (right). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616127989931-FQ8XAOU2FG6JSUKW5KBN/Hillary+with+ladies+in+b.g..jpg Theatre Hillary Clinton commiserates the 2016 election results, with Eve (left), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (right of centre) and Frida Kahlo (right). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616127917638-VQ2JGA8Z790DG6846DYU/Virginia+woolf.jpg Theatre - Virginia Woolf addresses the audience. Virginia Woolf addresses the audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617225937541-P57CXRJI835GPXN3KESN/Dark%252BMatter%252BRehearsal.jpg Theatre Rehearsals for Dark Matter, February 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616178397328-50NJGD4Q88BUFAVT8JEC/2021-03-19.png Theatre Playwright Talkback (on Zoom) after performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616177007710-2CNIN1DC261HX3C5G5SA/Festival+Poster.jpg Theatre Poster for New Works Festival, June 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616177099537-VI0U6HAGCD3L0F6FWYBP/Music+Theatre+Class+%2B+Masi+Asare%2C+Wednesday+11th+March+2020.jpg Theatre Rehearsals for Improv: the Musical, February 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616177122944-QAA7MUQ3KF333BBFAW4C/IMG_20200310_184337631_HDR_2.jpg Theatre Staged reading, Improv: the Musical, Wirtz Center, Chicago, March 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616176166535-E15DZ3E9P3A8KG5R2X9Y/paris+lovers+3.jpg Theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616176203913-6LT4ZCO8ODH1UDSLMTPK/3.+%2810%29.jpg Theatre First performance of The Man in the Moon at iO Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616176263011-EZFMHAHGDYZ76NPS52HY/The+Man+in+the+Moon+poster.jpg Theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616176141734-MV3N37BDPTYGGUAMIWRB/Letter+of+the+Law+poster+1+-+edited.jpg Theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616176118035-EZ3KWN2L54K0IA10KPT1/For+the+Love+of+Brian+poster.jpg Theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616176047076-UFPGUPXGFZOEI5PW12T8/Migrating+birds+poster+-+sunset.jpg https://www.emilycmcdermott.com/about daily 0.75 2022-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616821662765-JYWUR4708ER4XPJRF5CG/Emily+Headshot.jpeg About Me - Emily is a writer/director from Birmingham, England. She writes dark, often political, dramedies that use surrealism and metatheatricality to investigate humanity’s most controversial moral questions. In 2020, Emily wrote and directed history-themed sketch revue Alternative Histories at The Second City, Chicago, to sold-out audiences. Her debut screenplay Reset was crowned Winner of the 2019 Vail Film Festival and WeScreenplay Shorts competition and is going into production, with Emily as director, this October. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617825365321-W3PD8AGVCYAWUTJLN64E/Directing+at+Edinburgh.jpg About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617991357455-EYA7DEQYU0VIJ6NHZ9IN/Rehearsal+-+hannah+and+helen+giggling.jpg About Me In rehearsals for Hillary’s Kitchen, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617989282086-OGZYPLEM8WWMWXHPJBVG/Me+in+front+of+the+Bean.jpg About Me Move to Chicago, September 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617989318485-85L91U016OKD192Z0MOH/Julia-Louis+Dreyfus.jpg About Me Q&A with Northwestern Alumni Julia Louis-Dreyfus and husband Brad Hall, Northwestern University, November 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617255434320-KPKJ6OCEUG7ABQEUP3ZM/NU+MFA+group+writers+table.jpg About Me MFA Writing for the Screen and Stage seminar, Northwestern University, February 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617255976470-UP1CBVERO27MOLCYTJ5Q/Me+in+empty+donny%27s+skybox.jpg About Me - While studying at the Second City, Emily worked as Assistant to the Touring Company Producers and helped rehearse and negotiate shows all over the U.S. for The Second City’s four touring companies: RedCo, BlueCo, GreenCo and PatchCo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617256205124-5RYF9PLJ8JXK25MYGZUJ/Directing+-+kneeling+on+floor+with+pen+and+notebook.jpg About Me - In 2017, Emily graduated with a degree in English and decided to become a writer. She wrote and performed in sketch revue Death, Taxes and Bonking which was crowned Winner of the 2017 Edinburgh Student Comedy Festival. After the success of this, Emily founded their all-female off-shoot - Fresh Lady Milk – with whom she promotes and fosters young female comedians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617990964910-QP1VG8M2SHLXLIHHRG1P/BBC+%282%29.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617256288109-O37J9NE97Y4G6UCJGL4C/Everest+-+summit+group+shot.jpg About Me - In 2014, she climbed Mount Everest, raised £24,000 and used the money to build a school for street children living in poverty in Pokhara, Nepal. Everest Base Camp, Nepal, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617255790850-MDDNMG7WXDU1L7Q7B8FC/Carol+Singing.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617255820263-7F37V4HUECQQ2W273C81/Northwestern+-+you%27re+not+holding+a+violin+so+call+it+composing.jpg About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1617255745368-OGUJCIS61IUOW1WZZAE7/Me+at+Dillo+Day+on+tie+dye+beanbag.jpg About Me https://www.emilycmcdermott.com/pagetv daily 0.75 2021-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616191646443-T84F6ECWBDUK3CMCR92X/Mother+Russia+poster+-+Hammer+and+sickle.jpg TV - MOTHER RUSSIA (TV PILOT) (30 MIN.) (DARK) (POLITICAL-COMEDY) (MOCKUMENTARY) ***Currently a Quarterfinalist at the Austin TV Screenplay Awards A half-hour dark comedy that ‘mock-uments’ Nadya Belov's rise through the ranks of the Kremlin as she fights to become Russia’s first female dictator. Nadya Belov used to be a fan girl of democracy and now finds herself running the most corrupt communist government Russia’s ever had. We track her changing political views as she goes from young woman fighting for democracy in 1992 in Red Square, in love with the woman running the rally, to the death of that woman and Nadya’s subsequent demise into becoming Russia’s first female fascist dictator in 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616192094306-MMBFP06I97GDLM669069/The+Darkroom+poster+%28square%29.jpg TV - THE DARKROOM (TV PILOT) (60 MIN.) (DRAMEDY) (MENTAL HEALTH) ***Currently a Quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Fellowship Competition A 60-minute dramedy set in Manchester, England, following the life of a 34-year-old woman with synaesthesia whose family’s lies about what happened to her twin sister as a toddler cause a decline in her mental health, leading her to believe she has a doppelganger. She becomes a detective trying to get to the root of what happened when she was 4 and discovers she had a twin no-one told her about, and no-one will tell her what they did to her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60502aac24a9ee3f84dd7aa0/1616192233190-JFMWPAW7ETVOSPGHFMAR/Kosciuszko+Bridge+poster.jpg TV - KOSCIUSZKO BRIDGE (TV PILOT) (60 MIN.) (DRAMA) (THRILLER) Kosciuszko Bridge is a 6-part dramatic thriller in which the events of a woman’s rape and disappearance are unreliably told to us Rashomon-style through the eyes of six different witnesses who all live on her street in Brooklyn. Each episode, a different narrator gives their own biased view of what happened to Bella: The boyfriend having an affair, the little girl who misreads a sex scene, the broke mailman, the Detective recovering from sexual assault, the jealous sister and, finally, the woman herself, until a web of lies and misunderstandings is spun, and we don’t know who to believe. This show asks a lot of questions about our responsibility to each other as a society. If you see something, should you intervene? 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