Lillie Gardner

Screenwriter

Saint Paul, Minnesota

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December 2021

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About Lillie

Austin Film Festival Winner and Catalyst Story Institute Winner Lillie Gardner writes about women defying expectations. Raised in the Midwest, Lillie studied writing and music at New York University. Her background as a pianist lends an elegant pacing to her writing, which examines the ways in which our belief systems both help us and hold us back.

In addition to winning at Austin Film Festival (2022) and Catalyst Story Institute (2021), Lillie has been a Big Break Top 3 Finalist, a ScreenCraft Drama Finalist, a Finalist in Barnstorm Media's BOLT Competition, as well as a Finalist in Roadmap Writers Pitching Madness Tournament and The ISA's TV Pilot Pitch Challenge. She has also been a CineStory and Shore Scripts Semifinalist in addition to many other accolades.

Three of Lillie's screenplays have been Official Selections at the Catalyst Story Institute Festival. She is a mentee in the first cohort of the NATAS/Catalyst TV Industry Mentorship Program, where she is currently working with showrunner Jessica Goldberg (The Path, Away).

Also a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction, Lillie's prose has been published in Quail Bell Magazine, Delmarva Review, Long River Review, , and more.

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Female

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American Virtuosa Historical ⋄ Drama Based on a true story, a precocious young prodigy in nineteenth-century Boston must fight gender barriers and her own family to follow her dream of being a world-famous musician.
Ruth Rising Historical ⋄ Drama In a rebellious new world of sex, drugs and alcohol, three generations of scrappy Minnesota women fight for the American dream by bootlegging liquor during Prohibition.
Allegra Sparkle's Guide to the Great Composers (You Might Not Have Heard Of) Family ⋄ Animation An imaginative ten-year-old girl leads a magical podcast journey throughout history and around the world to meet composers who got left out of the classical music canon, including Elisabetta de Gambarini, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Margaret Bonds, Queen Lili’uokalani, and more.