Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

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Mini-series idea:

MIRANDA WRIGHT.

By day, walking the toughest beat in Boston.  By night, singing to the toughest beats anywhere.  

A gritty drama about Miranda Wright as she struggles to follow in her father’s footsteps as a keeper of the peace in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Boston. Miranda wants desperately to honor her father and the city they both love, but in her heart, she wants to rock. Every night she shakes off the grime of fighting crime and  takes to the stage as the lead singer of the hard-rocking group Cufz .  Can she keep up these two lives after the Cufz’s song “You Have the Right to Remain…” unexpectedly becomes a number one hit?

Starring Susana Hoffs as Miranda Wright, William Daniels as her father, Doolin “Do” Wright, and Micky Dolenz as her band’s manager Crosby Peterson.

(Ask art department to get us an image of Miranda slinging a fire arm and a guitar.)

–B.T.