Representation: Sherice Dugan, Sandstone Artists
Author/Screenwriter
Louisiana-raised, LA-based, Meemee Taylor is a television and features writer who enjoys creating escapism stories.
Meemee's Story
Meemee Taylor is an LA-based writer of horror/thrillers and comedies. This city girl started down this dark path when she was nine after moving to a rural farm in Louisiana where she developed a gripping fear of the scary chickens but a love for reading scary but funny books. She aspired to write her own stories about twisted but relatable characters. Her very first script reached the top 15 percent in the Nicholl Fellowship. Her very first TV pilot got her a fellowship spot in the Fox Writers Program. She also received a 2022 grant from the Horror Writers Association. Although she has run marathons around the world (including Tokyo, London, and Berlin), her favorite race will always be the local Run For Your Lives 5k, where “zombies” chased her throughout the course. (To run faster, Meemee pretended they were chickens.)
Sample of Horror/Thriller Scripts By Meemee
WALK INTO MY PARLOR
WALK INTO MY PARLOR
WALK INTO MY PARLOR
(Contained Feature - Suspense/Dark Comedy)
In love with her boss, a secretary plans to kill his wife over dinner but soon realizes her intended victim may be a psychopath trying to frame her for the murder of another employee.
Tagline: A restaurant where the food is piping hot and the murder is cold-blooded.
THE VESSEL
WALK INTO MY PARLOR
WALK INTO MY PARLOR
(TV Pilot - Horror)
After her mother's death, a pregnant Creole must unravel her family's Louisiana history, steeped in black magic, to stop a cult's plot to awaken an evil entity - through her.
Tagline: When evil festers in your DNA...accept your fate - or fight it?
UMBRELLA OF BLOOD
WALK INTO MY PARLOR
UMBRELLA OF BLOOD
(Contained Feature - Horror/Comedy)
A gutsy college student, stranded underground in a NYC subway car filled with colorful passengers, must battle an evil spirit inhabiting an umbrella.
Tagline: Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. Pay your fare for this killer ride!
Thrillers
KILLER ABBS
(Feature | Thriller/Dark Comedy)
After getting dumped by her boyfriend and passed over for a promotion, an insecure woman decides to take charge of her life by hiring a physical trainer but discovers the trainer (named Abbs) is a psychopath who will stop at nothing to ensure her client’s success – even murdering everyone around her.
DYING FOR THE PART
(Feature/Contained Thriller)
Stalked by a mysterious stranger since her childhood, an aspiring actress must face her greatest fears during an unconventional audition where her competition keeps dying, one by one.
DINOPUS WORLD
DINOPUS WORLD
(Creature Feature/Dark Comedy)
When a living, breathing prehistoric octopus is found, a marine biologist battles a local Los Angeles politician over its fate: open a theme park to make money off it or study it. The debate is moot when the 30-foot creature with a taste for human flesh escapes and the bodies start piling up!
Sample of Non-Horror Scripts by Meemee
ZYDECO
MONEY, MARRIAGE, & MANDY
SNATCHING ST NICK
(TV Pilot - Drama)
When hard evidence falls into his lap, an average joe goes up against a Goliath-like wealthy family to stake his claim in a New Orleans multi-million dollar company started from a product stolen from his ancestor.
SNATCHING ST NICK
MONEY, MARRIAGE, & MANDY
SNATCHING ST NICK
(Feature - Family-Friendly Comedy)
When one of his classmates bets there’s no way Cooper will get the super-hot Christmas toy given solely to those on Santa’s Nice List, a desperate Cooper has only one option to win the bet: kidnap Santa and hold him for ransom!
[The novel is available for purchase on Amazon under my pseudonym - Myla Taylor.]
MONEY, MARRIAGE, & MANDY
MONEY, MARRIAGE, & MANDY
MONEY, MARRIAGE, & MANDY
(Feature - Romantic Comedy)
A gold-digger tricks her husband into having an affair so she can collect on a lucrative no-cheat agreement. When she realizes she loves him, it’s too late – he has fallen for the young, beautiful, and highly conniving Mandy. Now she must fight to get her husband and her life back!
Accolades
In 2024:
- Scholarship Winner - Stowe Story Sidewalk Narrative Lab
- Semi-Finalist - Stage 32 New Voices in Animation Screenwriting Contest
- Semi-Finalist - NYX Horror Lab
- Semi-Finalist - Kinsman Quarterly's Iridescence Award
- Quarterfinalist - The Writers Lab
- Honorable Mention - Essence Film Festival Script Competition
In 2023:
- Finalist - The Black List/WIF Episodic Lab
- Top 50 - Roadmap Top Tier Competition
- Top 50 - Roadmap 2023 JumpStart Writing Competition
In 2022:
- Fellow - Sony's Creative Corridor Fellowship Program
- Winner - Horror Writers Association Writers Grant
- Winner - Roadmap Writers Career Writers Program Diversity Initiative
- Finalist - Paramount (CBS) Writers Mentoring Program
- Finalist - Women Write Now Program
Prior Years:
- Fellow - Fox Diversity Writers Initiative Program
- Fellow - National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) Program
- Fellow - National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) Writers Program
- Top 5 Finalist - BET/Urban World Film Festival Teleplay Contest
- Finalist - Scriptapalooza TV Pilot Contest
- Finalist – Shriekfest Screenplay Competition
- Top 15 percent – Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition
- Top 20 percent – Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2020)
