About

Comedies about staying positive when everything goes wrong.

Olivia Macdonald
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I'm a screenwriter from Tampa, Florida — which means alligator warnings in the parking lot, mosquitos the size of small birds, and a deep, lifelong love of stories about found family and the people who keep showing up for each other.

I write half-hour comedy and dramedy about what happens when everything goes wrong and you stay positive anyway: psych ward roommates, sorority misunderstandings, private school drug searches, the friend you absolutely should not be living with. I think you have to find the humor in everything — otherwise, what's the point?

Influences: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Community, 30 Rock, Seinfeld, and What We Do in the Shadows.

Credits & Recognition

  • William F. DiPietra Screenwriting Award

    2023 Recipient

  • CoverFly Featured

    Top 10 of 150,000+ scripts

  • Research Assistant — Hieronymus Pictures

    Killer In The Code podcast · 2025–2026

  • Editorial Intern — FlashMag

    Pop culture, fashion, current events · 2023–2024

  • Interviewed Michael Ché, Erik Kenward & John Mulaney

    Featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers, 2018

Education

  • UCLA — MFA in Screenwriting

    Expected June 2026 · GPA 3.8 · 1 of 20 selected from 2,000+ applicants

  • Fordham University — BA Film & Television

    May 2024 · GPA 3.6 · Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society

  • New York Film Academy

    Directing, writing, and acting

Toolkit

  • Final Draft

    Daily driver

  • Story development & script analysis

  • Research & concept development

  • Languages

    English (native), Spanish (working)

CurrentlySending out St. Anne's and It's Clinical, drafting a new pilot, and reading absolutely every email at olivialmacwrites@gmail.com.