MARY BRONAUGH
2021 Minority Report Fellow
University of Southern California
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SWEARING
Logline: Ninabelle is a religious Filipina teenager whose sheltered worldview is shaken by her first day of college. Accidentally recruited for the campus comedy troupe, Nina will discover a world where provoking God is applauded – and she’ll let loose the surprisingly loud and angry voice from inside her.
Mary Bronaugh is a film and TV writer-director and producer. Most recently, she worked as a Staff Writer on Disney Channel’s #1 series Big City Greens, which just announced season 4 and a Disney+ movie. The show has won and been nominated for multiple Television Academy Awards (Emmys) every year since its premiere. She has also worked as a Development Writer at Disney Television, Paramount, and Alcon Entertainment (Blade Runner 2049, The Expanse). She is currently developing an original series with Alcon Entertainment and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh’s production company Surfing Giant Studios.
She has also written, directed, and produced films with the historic Film Independent and the Academy Award (Oscar) winning Six Point Harness. In 2020, she wrote, directed, and produced a short film called Swearing. It was fiscally sponsored by Film Independent and had its world premiere at the Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, one of the most prestigious Oscar-qualifying festivals for shorts in the United States.
Other credits include co-producing the short film The Birds and The Bees written by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White (The Lion King, Tarzan, Newsies) and starring Angelica Huston, Hasan Minhaj, and Sean Astin; plus creating and directing the limited half-hour comedy series Ensemble, which premiered on the LA television station KFLA-LD and now streams on YouTube.
She has been selected for distinguished programs such the Disney TVA Writing Program, the NBCUniversal Animation Writers Program, and Diverso’s The Minority Report Fellowship. She won Best Family Screenplay in the 2020 Shore Scripts Feature Contest, placement on The Red List’s Top 10 Best Screenplays of 2019, as well as top recognitions by Humanitas, Screencraft, and The Launch. She holds a BFA in Writing for Screen and Television from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and produces her original work under her production company Song Paper Pictures.