Francine Daniels

Recipient of The California Wellness Foundation/Hedgebrook Fellowship to support a woman writer in California!

My short film SOULS OF MY FEET premieres at HollyShorts Monthly Film Screening at TLC Chinese Theaters in Los Angeles (October 2023)!

Short Film SOULS OF MY FEET for the Easterseales Five-Day Film Challenge (Writer, Executive Producer, Casting Director).

RespectAbility Lab Entertainment Program: TV Writing Fellow (Summer 2023)

RespectAbility Lab Entertainment Program: TV Writing Fellow (Summer 2023)

New Roots Residency at Walhalla Farms chose my TV dramedy IN GOD WE GAY as a top 20 finalist out of hundreds of submissions in Summer 2023!

Selected as a WRITER IN RESIDENCE for Spring 2023 for IN GOD WE GAY. Magical!!

IN GOD WE GAY was selected as the 1st Place Finalist for the Daisy Pettles Writing Competition for Women 2023 with a cash prize!

Coming Soon in 2023! Catch me in horror feature MAMA BEAR playing an uptight government bureaucrat.

Unlock Her Potential Mentor Program 2023 Cohort

Unlock Her Potential Mentor Program selected by award-winning producer and writer of blockbuster movie 9 to 5 Patricia Resnick!

The Storyteller Foundation Story Summit Scholarship: YEAR OF THE NOVEL 2023

IN GOD WE GAY was selcted for The Writers Lab in 2022

Watch me as real estate agent Ava in AMC’s ALLBLK hit show LACE in Season 2, Episode 5: “Seize Your Crown”

Co-Star Role as Ava - Season 2 of LACE on AMC’s ALLBLK

Co-Star Role as Ava - Season 2 of LACE on AMC’s ALLBLK

Co-Star Role as Ava - Season 2 of LACE on AMC’s ALLBLK

The Writers Lab US 2022: (l to r, top to bot.) Robina Lord-Stafford, Arianna Ortiz, Kelly Campbell, Zuri Rice, Nitza Wilon, Mary Jane Skalski, Francine Daniels, Rita Hsiao, Gwen Goodkin, Amy Fox, Elizabeth Kaiden, Tamara Maloney, Roses Urquhart, Pat Verducci, Maeve McQuillan, Jamie Zelermyer, Shari Albert, Nic Cohen, Susan Cartsonis, Rebecca Dreyfus, Stephanie Bast, Robin Shanea Williams (on screen).

Short comedy script VIRGIN HONEYMOON was a top eight finalist for Kevin Hart’s Women Write Now Fellowship

IN GOD WE GAY selected by Showrunner Mara Brock Akil for The Writers Colony in Spring 2022

IN GOD WE GAY was a finalist for Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Mentorship Lab

MOSAIC BLUES and SKIN-KIN Fellowship Winner

MOSAIC BLUES TV Writers Lab Winner

SKIN-KIN Selected Project for Stowe Story Labs Writers’ Retreat

Quarterfinalist for MOSAIC BLUES

MOSAIC BLUES Selected Project for Stowe Story Labs

MOSAIC BLUES Fellowship Semifinalist for Stowe Story Labs

MOSAIC BLUES Semifinalist for WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Story Lab

MOSAIC BLUES Live Reading for Broken Barriers

MOSAIC BLUES Live Reading for Broken Barriers

Lead cast with Director Joss Whedon

A break on the set of UNLOCKED

UNLOCKED Breast cancer death bed scene

UNLOCKED: I’m Falling and Can’t Get Up!

UNLOCKED set break

National Commercials for Overstock.com: “Oscar La Vista” and “Chris P. Bacon.” This was a fun day!

National commercial

National commercial

LIFETIME Episode: Incriminating, Esclating and Percolating where I played a judge shocked by the scandalous case.

Marsha Henry enjoying the red carpet for premiere of TRUTH BE TOLD.

Salty Principal in action on the set of TRUTH BE TOLD.

STICKY FINGERS cast

Cassandra sees the future

VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE Cast