Mugs Cahill

Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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April 2014

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About Mugs

AlGrowing up as the middle child in a large Irish Catholic family, Mugs is a born mediator who envisioned her life as either a covert operative or a preschool teacher. She settled on being an award-winning advertising creative director for nearly two decades, until she transitioned to a screenwriting career. Mugs has sold two feature screenplays, both now in pre-production, and has had another screenplay optioned. In addition to co-founding Against Type Films, Mugs is a Stowe Story Labs alum, a Reykjavik Iceland Talent Lab alum, and a writer on the ISA Development Slate. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Trinity University, a post-graduate degree from Musician’s Institute and studied philosophy at Boston College. Mugs lives in L.A. with her wife, where they hold a bi-monthly Fire & Wine salon for female creatives in the industry.

Unique traits: Squirrels eat out of my hand. I play electric bass. Once cycled in the mountains for 7 miles with a nose bleed. Can recite the alphabet sideways (not a joke.) Am studying Irish (the language.) Ask me questions and I'll continue...

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Female

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Freedom Family ⋄ Adventure An impetuous teen, forced to give up her horse because of economic realities, seeks help from a quirky tack shop owner to rescue her steed from an unscrupulous horse broker.
Nantucket Mystery ⋄ Drama After her daughter unexpectedly dies, a trauma psychologist withdraws to the seclusion of a mysterious lighthouse, abandoning her wife and practice to strike a bargain with a 19th century whaling captain who claims her daughter is alive.
Wicked Good Drama ⋄ Crime After a Boston detective sabotages a high-profile investigation to hide her sexuality, she plays cat and mouse with her former lover, a disgraced Mafia princess, as each vows a vendetta to take down the mob
Jook Thriller ⋄ Drama Backwater Mississippi 1946, two young World War II vets suffering from PTSD - a black communist moonshiner and a white sheriff with Klan ties – conspire with and against each other when they are targeted as prime suspects in the murder of an FBI informant.
Patient No More Historical ⋄ Drama A wealthy, entitled paraplegic and a disillusioned Black Panther form an unlikely alliance as each struggles to come of age during the longest takeover of a government building in United States history. Based on real events.
Detroit Rounds Drama A former auto worker unable to come to terms with the suicide of his son connects with his son’s fellow Vietnam vet friends, and they recognize in each other the overwhelming need for community to find the hope to fight another day.