“From Crime Scene to Silver Screen: How a Vault Heist Sparked a ScreenCraft Fellow’s Unlikely Journey to Filmmaking Success”
I applied to the University of Texas at Austin’s MFA in screenwriting program. They admitted me immediately, and I got signed by a manager during my first semester. I moved to Los Angeles and sold my first show, and now I’m writing this from the pool in the backyard of my Beverly Hills mansion.*** (***This is what I WISH had happened).
In reality, I was waitlisted at UT and it didn’t look like a spot would open up for me. So I pivoted to plan B—if I couldn’t write movies, I could at least write about them, so I accepted a spot in an Arts Journalism program.
