Meet Our Grantees

An incredibly talented and ambitious group of disabled creatives: writers, directors, filmmakers, and more.

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Sheridan O’Donnell

Sheridan (he/him) is a Texas-born, Korean-American writer and director whose work explores family, identity, and human connection through character-driven stories that seamlessly balances catharsis and humor.

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Marc Muszynski

Marc is a writer and comedian from Chicago, who, despite being visually impaired, once convinced someone to let him fly an airplane.

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Jenn Lloyd

Jenn (she/her) is a New Jersey-born comedy writer with a degree in film from Syracuse University.

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Chad Chenail

Chad Chenail (he/him) is a freelance children's media writer and podcast producer who likes to joke that he gets to be nice for a living.

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Bibi June

Bibi June (they/them) is a poet and performance-maker whose work focuses on queerness, climate justice, and post-apocalyptic stories.

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Lou Mensah

Lou Mensah (she/her) is a British-Ghanaian audio-maker, producer, and founder of Shade Podcast, who has carved out a space all her own in audio.

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Sarah Kaufman & Shane Dittmar

Sarah Kaufman & Shane Dittmar (also known as They & Them) are a disabled, nonbinary musical theatre and audio drama writing team.

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Sara McCrea

Sara McCrea (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based writer and audio producer from Boulder, Colorado.

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Anna Maguire

Anna Maguire (she/her) has built a fiction podcast career out of pipe cleaners, hot glue, and used computer parts.

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Jessie Belle Auguste

Jessie Belle Auguste (she/her) is a podcast host and software engineer passionate about democratizing the tech industry.

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Ella Watts

Ella Watts (she/her) is a multi-award winning writer, director, and producer whose body of work is an explosion of radically inclusive storytelling.

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Lydia Caradine

Lydia Caradine (she/her) is a writer and Stella Adler-trained actress, originally from Cleveland, OH.

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David Dineen-Porter

David Dineen-Porter is a comedy writer with an interest in science fiction and absurdism. He was born by emergency C-section, demonstrating an early love of drama.

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Keisha Zollar

Keisha Zollar (she/her) is a disabled comedian, writer, and showrunner.

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Brett Maline

Brett Maline (he/him) is a Los Angeles based actor/writer/director from rural Nebraska.

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Gisselle Legere

Gisselle Legere (she/her) is a Cuban-American writer who grew up among the exile community in Miami.

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Sam Dunnewold

Sam Dunnewold (he/him) is a Minnesota-born comedy writer who likes a sharp wit and a good poop joke.

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Anton Ray

Anton Ray (he/him) is a poly-ethnic writer who works most often in the one-hour drama space, with a special fondness for Sci-Fi and Urban-Fantasy.

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