A cockeyed optimist, Brittany puts a positive spin on the pain of living. She writes about crime and breaking from society’s norms.

She is currently the writers room/showrunner’s assistant on the new Apple TV+ series, SMOKE, and recently spent 5 months in Vancouver helping to oversee production.

Previously, she was a courtroom correspondent for Crime Story Media’s podcast series, Jury Duty, and served as the Co-Producer and Co-Host of Jury Duty: The Trial of Robert Durst. She completed her MFA in Screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, John Wells Division in 2022.

Before relocating to Los Angeles, she wrote and performed comedy in Chicago and improvised with the puppets of Felt at iO Theatre. She hosts the Killer Conversations podcast in which she interviews real serial killers (played by comedians).

Her short film, Five Jars, won Best Comedy from Festigious International Film Festival and the Vegas Movie Awards.

Her web series Undateable was recently awarded Best Comedy, Best Original Story, Best Web Series, and Best Editing by Festigious, as well as Best Romance by the Vegas Movie Awards. For updates, follow along on Seed & Spark.

The More We Get Together, a short film by Brittany Bookbinder, produced by USC’s School of Cinematic Arts was awarded Best Screen Story at Zed Fest 2021.