Nicole Lynn Cohen
Type of Work Seeking:
Writers's Assistant
Showrunner's Assistant
Development Opportunities (Including Open Writing Assignments)
Staff in a Room (Staff Writer or Story Editor)
Credits:
Wrote and produced the short horror, BREADWINNER, which follows an obsessive baker with a sinister secret recipe. The short film screened at the 21st Hollyshorts Film Festival, and is available to view on the YouTube channels Short of the Week and ALTER. Nicole is currently developing the eponymous feature.
Associate produced the short drama UNHOLY, which premiered in 2025 at Sundance and went on to screen at SXSW, Palm Springs, and Reelabilities, among others.
Executive produced the short documentary SEÁNA, which screened at the 33rd Raindance Film Festival in 2025 where it was nominated for best short.
Personal Highlights:
2025-2026 Humanitas New Voices Fellow
Featured as #7 on the Red List’s Drama Television (Half-hour) for her pilot STALKY & CO., and Red List’s #20 Musical Feature in the past year for her jukebox musical CRYING LAUGHING LOVING LYING in 2024.
2023 Semifinalist for the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
2021 Awarded the Subnivean Fiction Award by Daniel Handler (AKA Lemony Snicket) for her fiction piece “You should talk to someone”
Representation:
Managers: Nick Arnstein and Samantha Starr, Echo Lake Management
Learn More about Nicole:
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Nicole Lynn Cohen is a screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. A born and raised New-Englander who studied English and Film, Nicole marries her literary roots with her love of theatricality and genre filmmaking.
Nicole cut her teeth in film and television at multiple independent production companies, including Bona Fide Productions, SpectreVision, and Felix Culpa. At these companies, she read and wrote coverage for hundreds of film and television scripts, which led her to gain industry insight, develop her own taste, and, most importantly, sharpen her eye and ear for storytelling.
Nicole is a spirited collaborator and life-long student of the creative process. Her favorite artistic medium is the sentence.
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THE SILENT TREATMENT (Feature/Drama)
A sign language interpreter is forced to find her own voice during a 72-hour psychiatric hold — not as a patient, but as the interpreter for a troubled Deaf teen who challenges her every instinct.
Comps: Short Term 12, CODA
BREADWINNER (Feature/Horror Fantasy)
Tragedy leaves Bea and her brother Diego at odds about what to do with their failing family bakery, until a startling discovery awakes a dormant power and reveals the true potential of their inheritance.
Comps: Little Shop of Horrors, Heathers
CRYING LAUGHING LOVING LYING (Jukebox Musical, Period, LGBTQ+)
Featuring all 20 songs from Labi Siffre's album of the same name, this musical tale follows a runaway bride and her friends who take in an American trying to find himself in 1970s England.
Comps: Across the Universe
UPSTAGED (Hour-long series)
A new hire at a second-rate ballet company is suddenly thrust into the spotlight when the principal dancer gets injured, only to find her career now at the whim of rival dancers, bumbling staff, and an artistic director hellbent on his own stardom.
Comps: The Studio, Industry
STALKY & CO. (Limited series/Literary Adaptation)
Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s (in)famous Victorian-era school stories, a rebellious boarding school trio grapples with autocratic masters and their own uncertain futures.
Comps: Dead Poets Society, Stand by Me