Seanan Palmero

Screenwriter and Playwright

San Francisco, California

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June 2021

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About Seanan

Seanan Palmero Waugh is a screenwriter and playwright based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her award-winning pilot Ho-Ho-Kus Pocus is inspired by her experience growing up as a Hispanic who didn’t fit into the expected stereotypes. Her short play play Crock Of was a finalist for the Heideman Award at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival’s National Ten-Minute Play Contest, a finalist for the Maxim Mazumdar New Play One Act Competition from Alleyway Theatre, and is included in the playwriting curriculum at Dartmouth. Her play Go the Vole was included in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Summer Playwriting Workshop and was a finalist for the Women Playwrights Series at Centenary Stage Company. Oil and Watercolor was a semi-finalist for the B-Street Theatre’s New Comedies Festival, IATI’s Cimientos 2021, and a Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival’s Playwriting Competition. She received her MFA in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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Female

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Ho-Ho-Kus Pocus Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Harry Potter meets Community in this coming of age comedic series about a secret society of magicians in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey.

Awards

current Semi-Finalist -- Best Unproduced Script, Palermo International Film Festival, Italy
(2023)
Best Short Screenplay – HaydenFilms Screenwriting Competition, PA
(2022)
Finalist – Best Short Screenplay, World Webfest Mania, New York, NY
(2021)
Semi-Finalist – San Francisco Indie Film Fest Short Screenplay Competition
(2021)
Quarter-Finalist – Lake Travis Film Festival, Lake Travis, TX
(2021)
Best Short Script – Lady Filmmakers Festival, Los Angeles, CA
(2020)
Second Place, Best Web Pilot – Let’s Make It! Screenwriting Competition, Romania
(2020)