Mariah Anzaldo Hale

Author, Costume Designer, Illustrator, Playwright, Production Designer, Researcher and Theater Professional

New York City, New York

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May 2024

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About Mariah

I’ve always been a storyteller. As a costume designer collaborating with directors, playwrights and designers for 30 years, I tell stories with clothes. Most of my experience is in Shakespeare. My work in other genres includes Broadway, National Tours, Off-Broadway and Regional Theater. I always intended to be a writer, but was enticed away by design. It has taken me 3 decades and 3 children to get back to writing. This TV Pilot is based on a real woman. Aphra Behn was the first Englishwoman to earn a living as a writer. She is every woman. We know very little about her but we can fill in the blanks. She would be thrilled to be the heroine of this femme-adventure. Women will appreciate her struggle with credit for her accomplishments amongst the patriarchy and her novel approach to conquering it. She was a spy, mistress, writer, wife, widow and wit of the 17th century. She exploited men’s exploitation. This is not our grandma’s costume drama.

Gender:
Female

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2025-03-20

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Loglines

ASTREA Historical One woman she-spy, playwright and accidental harlot in lawless 17th century London defiantly charts her own course in a world where men wield the swords and secrets.

Awards

STAGE32 Period Piece Screenwriting Contest Quarterfinalist
(2025)
ISA Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition Quarter-Finalist
(2025)
NYISA Best TV Pilot Screenplay Award Winner - 3rd Place
(2025)
Semifinalist, Imagine This Women's International Film Festival - Imagine This Women's Film Festival
(2024)
Semifinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Spring 2024
(2024)
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic - Inroads Fellowship Season 7
(2024)
Helen Hayes Award Nomination
(2019)
Helen Hayes Award Nomination
(2012)

Education

SUNY at Purchase College
(1990-1993)
Gettysburg College
(1988-1990)