Jodi Lustig was horrified to learn at age ten that our two hundred plus-year-old country had never elected a woman to the White House. So she set out to do herself. Not too long after she did the math and realized even if she could somehow make it to thirty-five without committing a felony, an older wiser woman would undoubtedly get there first. At least in a sensible universe.

Now that she is daring to hope again, she is still grateful that no time travelers have jaunted back to spoil the sad cold Madam Presidential truth.

A lifelong theater-lover, Jodi tap-danced her way from childhood to the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) where an audition filmed by an all-male student directing team sent her behind the curtain for good. (She would love to name names, but she shouldn’t, so she won’t. Also see above: no time travel to fix-it.) Happily, the backstage work she found at summer camps, non-profits and in publishing more than made up for the real-life drama and trauma.

She has been a freelance writer her entire adult life, enjoying stints in publishing and communications before attending graduate school at New York University, where she received her doctorate in English Language & Literature. A stunning picture of her in the poofy purple hat hangs in a place of honor on her office wall, but she has long since abandoned efforts to force any ornery old bosses to call her Dr. Lustig. They must simply bow or curtsey.

Her half-hour television pilot MAD HADLEY was a finalist for the Stowe Story Labs Maven Screen Media Fellowship.

Features Overview

Feature 1

TITLE:                    MAD HADLEY

FORMAT:             Half-Hour Single-Cam TV Series | Comedy | Cable

LOGLINE:             After a clash with a client goes viral, a lawyer infamous for defending despicable men volunteers at her uber-feminist mother’s legal aid clinic for women-in-need, hoping to turn over a new leaf without razing the family tree to the ground.

FeatTITLE:                    SKI IN/SKI OUT

TITLE: SKI IN/SKI OUT

FORMAT:             Romantic Comedy Screenplay

LOGLINE:        A free-spirited traveling nurse hustles up to the Winter Wedding Capital of the Northeast to stop her bestie from marrying a dude she just met, but when she gets her skis crossed with the Best Man—a hometown boy with a broken heart of gold—she’s gotta slow down and mind the marked and unmarked obstacles before she zips out of town without a glance uphill behind her.

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