Independent Writers' Caucus
Nic Cohen
hillmannic@gmail.com
Rep by Chris Coggins - Heroes & Villains Entertainment.
"NIC COHEN portrays relatable, complex women under pressure in grounded sci-fi, contained thrillers and dark comedy features.
A forest scientist by training, Nic’s voracious curiosity led to an eclectic resume that includes visiting Guantanamo Bay detainees for human rights work, earning a red card to fight forest fires, lobbying Congress on global warming policy, dancing internationally in a salsa/hip hop troupe, editing a tree farming magazine, and teaching NIH neuroscientists ballroom dance. These wildly varied experiences, in combination with raising three neurodiverse teens as an LGBTQ+ and trans-proud mom, inform her unique perspective on gender, privilege and power and her empathy for marginalized voices.
Nic's first three features are in development with the producers of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, HERETIC, and UNBROKEN. Her scripts have consistently won accolades, notably as a PAGE International Silver Winner for Thriller and Austin Film Festival Enderby Finalist. Nic was selected to attend the Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman-supported The Writers Lab in 2022.
A native Texan, Nic now lives outside Washington, D.C. with her Yankee husband, three adolescent gamers, a shy Siberian kitten and a bold African Pygmy hedgehog. She’s represented by Heroes & Villains Entertainment.
Honors & Awards
Selected Writer, The Writer’s Lab Eighth Edition - ARTEMIS ONE - 2022
Silver Prize Winner Thriller/Horror Feature, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - ALWAYS WE BEGIN AGAIN - 2023
Enderby Feature Finalist, Austin Film Festival - ALWAYS WE BEGIN AGAIN - 2022
non-WGA
Female, 40+
ALWAYS WE BEGIN AGAIN
Contained Thriller Feature
In the vein of a dark 50 FIRST DATES
After surviving the car crash that killed her family, a woman with anterograde amnesia wakes in her own bed to a stranger who says he’s her fiancé´ and must piece together clues left by her past-self before she falls asleep and forgets it all again.
ARTEMIS ONE
Sci-Fi Contained Thriller Feature
When three women astronauts on the first human flight to Mars are cut off from NASA by a solar flare, they must battle the mysterious sinister forces threatening their mission - and their lives.
MOTIVATED
Comedy pilot
DIRTBAG meets BARRY, literally
A wannabe motivational speaker in a downward spiral takes her last stab at stardom and unintentionally inspires a lonely serial killer to chase his dreams.
Female-centric, Queer, Thriller, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror
Female, 40+
repped