Nicole Lynn Cohen is a
screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY
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. She is currently a 2025-2026 Humanitas New Voices Fellow with her drama feature The Silent Treatment.

In addition to screenwriting, Nicole heads development at Ser Nocturna, a women-led independent production company based in New York. Her favorite artistic medium is the sentence.

PRAISE

“‘You should talk to someone’ captures the essential strangeness of being human, how the ordinary and even tedious details of daily life are forever linked to the overwhelming mysteries and yearning secrets that shadow us. This is a beautiful, thoughtful, weird little piece. My hat is off.”
DANIEL HANDLER (AKA LEMONY SNICKET)
on “You should talk to someone”
“The narrative is perfectly aligned with the music. It’s got a deceptive sort of simplicity that’s heartbreaking and totally cinematic. The music, lyricism, characterizations, and events of the era all come off seamlessly.”
Screencraft Reader
on Crying Laughing Loving Lying
“This is an engaging retelling of a classic story. The writing perfectly evokes a sense of time and place, replete with the Darwinian nature of schooling and its dialect and idioms. The picaresque trio railing against the stuffy establishment is a theme that endures due to its inherent universality.”
Screencraft Reader
on Stalky & Co.

Screenplays

The Silent Treatment

Feature, drama
Feature in development
2025 Humanitas New Voices Fellowship Recipient. Finalist, Antigravity Academy's 2024 Screenwriting Camp (Top 4% of over 700 scripts)

Breadwinner

Short, Horror/Psychological Thriller
Eponymous feature in development
21st Hollyshorts Film Festival, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, NY Latino Film Festival, Junk Dump Film Festival, Greenpoint Film Festival

Stalky & Co.

Pilot, Period, Coming-of-Age, Literary Adaptation
Top 5% of discoverable projects on Coverfly. Red List’s #7 Drama Television (Half-hour)
Semifinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2023. 2nd Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2024. Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition 2023. Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2023. Quarterfinalist, Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition 2022.

Crying Laughing Loving Lying

Feature, Musical, Historical, LGBTQ+
Top 17% of discoverable projects on Coverfly. Red List’s #20 Musical Feature in the past year
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Feature Competition 2022. Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2022. Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Spring 2023.
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Fiction

Published

"Taking the Day Off" Cherub (2023)
"Reading the Signs" Cagibi (2023)
"Spoiled" Subnivean (2022)
"Little Neck Lowball" VOIS (2022)
"You should talk to someone" Subnivean (2021)
Awarded the 2021 Subnivean Fiction Award by Daniel Handler
"A Trunk, Full" Sunlight Press (2021)

Notable Mentions

"Taking the Day Off" / Manchester Fiction Prize, Highly Commended (2019)
"A Little Weight" / Larry Brown Short Story Award, Top Ten (2019)
"Commodore Sergeant" / Morse Hamilton Fiction Prize,  Honorable Mention (2018)

MINI CV

Education

Tufts University
B.A. English, Film & Media Studies

Experience

New Voices Fellow / Humanitas
Head of Development / Ser Nocturna
Coordinator / Felix Culpa
Director’s Assistant / Tanya Wexler
Coordinator / SpectreVision
Executive Assistant to the CEO / SpectreVision
Intern / Bona Fide Productions

Film Credits

Writer, Producer / BREADWINNER
Associate Producer / UNHOLY
Producer / SUBWAY TRASH – Ella Hunt
Executive Producer / SEÁNA
Writer, Producer / EDGEWOOD, OHIO
Producer / DEATH & DUCK STEW

Bio

Nicole studied English and Film at Tufts University. Her career in film began with an internship at Bona Fide Productions under Oscar-winning producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa (Little Miss Sunshine, Nebraska).

Upon graduating, she moved to Los Angeles and became an Executive Assistant at SpectreVision, where she worked under founders Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah, Director of Development Claire Bargout, and producer Kim Sherman. She assisted on the films Archenemy and No Man of God, and after a year she was promoted to Coordinator.

Now in New York, Nicole continues to work on her own screenplays while she hones her writing, development, and production skills. After working as a Coordinator at Felix Culpa under founding producers Riley Keough and Gina Gammell, she is now Head of Development at Ser Nocturna. As a 2025-2026 Humanitas New Voices Fellow, she gained development and career support for her feature drama The Silent Treatment, and was paired with mentor Robin Swicord (Matilda, Memoirs of a Geisha).

‍Nicole also has a horror-fantasy feature about an obsessive baker with a sinister secret recipe, a jukebox musical feature about a runaway bride trying to find herself in 1970s London, and an hour-long series set at a ballet company in the Midwest that blends the workplace insanity of The Studio with the interpersonal drama of Industry.
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Nicole is currently seeking representation.
Nicole Lynn Cohen (2026)
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