Nancy Wilkinson

Screenwriter and Author

Omaha, NE, USA

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September 2024

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About Nancy

Wife, mother, grandmother, an original Husker volleyball player, retired speech language pathologist, writer, published a therapy resource, and an unpublished children’s picture book, screenwriter of more than a dozen scripts including stories based on real life events, sci-fi, historical, romance and murder mystery romances.

Gender:
Female

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Operation Sea Devils Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi After a Navy SEAL is severely injured during a rescue mission and transformed into a merman as part of a secret military project, he must escape the deranged scientist behind the experiments and stop him from ruining his kid brother's life and from transforming others into more dangerous human-sea creature hybrids.
S.O.S. School of Screenwriting Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Mystery The funeral of one of his elderly aunts brings a disenfranchised Hollywood executive back to his hometown, not knowing he’d be arrested as a suspect for more than half a dozen murders buried in the backyard rose garden while he tries to protect his elderly aunt who helped raise him.
Once a Gambler Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Western Based on a true story, when a former riverboat gambler, John J. Cozad attempts to leave his dangerous past behind him by founding a model community in 1872 Nebraska, he must confront the violent threats from big ranchers and from dangerous derelicts from his past that follow him, in order to make his family's frontier dream a reality.
Six Packs and Facials Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Sports When Title IX passes in the 1970’s, a young woman’s quest to reach the first collegiate women’s volleyball nationals with her new Nebraska team, they didn’t know their worst opponents wouldn’t be on the court.

Awards

Emerging Screenwriters Sci-Fi - Quarter-Finalist - "Operation Sea Devils"
(2025)
Operation Sea Devils - Top 10% Coverfly
(2025)
Once a Gambler - Pilot Top 16% Coverfly
(2025)
Coverfly Top 28% "S.O.S. School of Screenwriting"
(2025)
top 9% on Coverfly "Six Packs and Facials"
(2024)
Outstanding Screenplays Quarter-Finalist "Six Packs and Facials"
(2024)
Omaha Film Festival Semi-Finalist "Six Packs and Facials"
(2023)
Scriptapalooza Semi-Finalist "Six Packs and Facials"
(2023)
Save the Cat - top 25 "Operation Sea Devils"
(2023)
Omaha Film Festival Semi-Finalist - "Once a Gambler" Pilot
(2023)
Omaha Film Festival Semi-Finalist "Operations Sea Devils"
(2022)

Education

Lew Hunter's Superior School of Screenwriting
(2005-2008)
University of Nebraska
(1975-1977)