
Meet Our Grantees
An incredibly talented and ambitious group of disabled creatives: writers, directors, filmmakers, and more.
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.
Marc Muszynski
Marc is a writer and comedian from Chicago, who, despite being visually impaired, once convinced someone to let him fly an airplane.
Jenn Lloyd
Jenn (she/her) is a New Jersey-born comedy writer with a degree in film from Syracuse University.
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.
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.
Sarah Kaufman & Shane Dittmar
Sarah Kaufman & Shane Dittmar (also known as They & Them) are a disabled, nonbinary musical theatre and audio drama writing team.
Sara McCrea
Sara McCrea (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based writer and audio producer from Boulder, Colorado.
Anna Maguire
Anna Maguire (she/her) has built a fiction podcast career out of pipe cleaners, hot glue, and used computer parts.
Jessie Belle Auguste
Jessie Belle Auguste (she/her) is a podcast host and software engineer passionate about democratizing the tech industry.
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.
Lydia Caradine
Lydia Caradine (she/her) is a writer and Stella Adler-trained actress, originally from Cleveland, OH.
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.
Brett Maline
Brett Maline (he/him) is a Los Angeles based actor/writer/director from rural Nebraska.
Gisselle Legere
Gisselle Legere (she/her) is a Cuban-American writer who grew up among the exile community in Miami.
Sam Dunnewold
Sam Dunnewold (he/him) is a Minnesota-born comedy writer who likes a sharp wit and a good poop joke.
Aoife Baker/Greg Machlin
Aoife Baker (they/she) and Greg Machlin (he/him) are neurodivergent writers who fled from the frozen alien planet of Maine and camouflaged themselves as humans in L.A.
Shaina Ghuraya
Shaina Ghuraya (she/her) is a writer and director whose style is a lot like her personality—quirky, bold and unapologetic.