Gender

Female

Filmmakers: What is your primary skill and where do you work most?

Writer Socal

My current Project Title:

Taffeta

I describe myself as a

Content Creator

About me - current project:

Most recently, Nancy and Heather completed the comedy feature Taffeta in collaboration with Kyra Sedgwick and Big Swing Productions. In 2017, they landed a spot in Outfest Film Festival’s prestigious Screenwriters Lab. On the TV side, the pair sold a foster-oriented project to The Disney Channel, wrote the half-hour comedy Other People’s Kids based on their own experiences as foster parents, the hour-long drama pilot Social Work, a spec of Elementary, and their Parks & Recreation sample landed in the top six scripts at Austin Film Festival. Their play, Resolution, which received its world premiere in Chicago in 2016, won the award for Best Script with Pride Film & Plays and was nominated for Chicago’s prestigious Jeff Award for Best New Play. They’ve also written for the Legacy Awards for Elizabeth Banks, Norman Lear, Lena Waithe, Lily Tomlin, Dan Jinks, Laverne Cox, Rupert Everett, and the cast of One Day at a Time. Nancy and Heather are proud foster/adoptive parents with three kids. As major advocates for foster children, they have been covered by The Huffington Post (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/let-love-define-nancy-nyman-heather-mcnama_us_56f5437de4b0143a9b47f868) and have written a guest blog for Disney’s BABBLE (https://www.babble.com/parenting/foster-parents-advocating-kids-rights/).

My home region is:

So Cal