Inspiration for Heather:
Maya Hawke
A Half-Hour Comedy
A wealthy debutante Instagrammer, Heather Edwards, checks into a surreal digital detox center to hang on to her trust fund after her conservative banker father issues an ultimatum. Her arrival at the center creates digital and IRL chaos as she tries to maintain her 50+ millions of followers inside a WiFi dead zone of 400 acres. Stuck inside the 'Peaceful Disconnect to Reconnect' wilderness landscape at Helena’s Wellness Center, Heather has to resort to EXTREME measures and ENLIST unlikely allies — Jo (the Center hack-nutritionist), Derrienne (an opportunistic Center employee) and the geeky programming wiz Lucy (her die-hard #1 fan) — to gain the upper hand against her father and his young 4th wife — Gwen. Heather's ULTIMATE GOAL: to get to 100 MM followers and be on the Forbes List in her own right.
ANNA LIZA BELLA
WRITER/PRODUCER
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Anna Liza Bella is an award-winning branded content pioneer and writer/producer with a breadth of experience across the entertainment/media industry, from television to film and digital platforms. She is currently a writer/producer on several TV projects, including Truth or Consequences, a supernatural thriller with NY Times best-selling novelist Rebecca Roanhorse. She's also developing and producing a half-hour animated comedy Minor Offenders and a TV project New Kongo that explores an alternate timeline/history in which Lincoln pulls out of the Civil War giving rise to two different countries.
MINA
CHOI
WRITER/PRODUCER
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Mina Choi (a.k.a. Hanbury-Tenison) is a writer based in Ireland. She was born in Seoul, went to high school in NYC and graduated from Yale University with a degree in Literature. She lived for two decades in Shanghai beginning in 1997. During her time there, she wrote Shanghai Girls: Uncensored and Unsentimental, and was one of the top columnists for Wall Street Journal China and Oriental Outlook with her column titled "Lost in Shanghai." She has been touring her pop-up play House Plays in Ireland for the past few years. Her work can be found on www.minachoi.com.
