
Meet Our Grantees
An incredibly talented and ambitious group of disabled creatives: writers, directors, filmmakers, and more.
Andrew Reid
Andrew Reid (he/him) is a disabled Jamaican-Cuban storyteller who migrated to the United States at the age of 10. He gravitates toward genre films and untold dramas within the world of disability, mental health, and the Caribbean community.
Kryzz Gautier
Kryzz Gautier (she/her) is a Queer, Afro-Latina, formerly undocumented writer-director from the Dominican Republic, who specializes in character-driven, grounded sci-fi and genre at large.
Charlie and Chris Frazier
Charlie and Chris Frazier (he/him) have written for film and television for ten years. They often center their stories on characters with disabilities, rooted in their own experiences with Cystic Fibrosis.
Hari Ziyad
Hari Ziyad (he/they) is a certified death doula, the bestselling author of Black Boy Out of Time, and the creator and former Editor-in-Chief of RaceBaitr.
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.