Danielle Weinberg

Danielle recently made her directorial debut with the sci-fi film Invasion '53, starring Jeffrey Combs. She won The Script Lab's 2024 Free Screenplay Contest with her thriller feature Coastal Watch, placing first out of more than 15,000 scripts, and she sold an original romcom screenplay. Danielle's feature script IRL was named to The Best of the Independent Writers' Caucus in 2024, and her play Murder, Party of Ten was featured in the 2023 New Works Festival of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company.
 
Danielle is a graduate of the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University, where she also earned a degree in Film & Media Studies. She has an M.F.A. in Feature Film Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
 
She worked for K/O Paper Products, the production company of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek, Sleepy Hollow), and developed projects for Johnson Production Group, Orlando Jones and Legion of Creatives.

Danielle's writing style is light, witty, and playful. Her influences include Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Billy Wilder, Johnny Mercer, and Steven Spielberg. She has been a published author since the third grade. A proud Marylander, Danielle is passionate about classic Hollywood, Sherlock Holmes, Disneyland, swimming, Bing Crosby, the Anaheim Ducks, and the Washington Capitals.