Talent Guide

Jessica Gonzalez

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Imaginar TV Incubator for Fearless Latinx Creators 2024

Bio

Jessica is a Cuban American author and screenwriter who writes about about angry girls and pretty monsters. She studied English at Florida State University and earned an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California. She was the showrunner’s assistant on season 1 of Diary of a Future President (Disney+). On season 2, she was the writers’ assistant & script coordinator before being promoted to staff writer. Most recently, she was a story editor on Keep This to Yourself (NBCUniversal). She was also a Spring 2021 Las Musas Hermanas mentee for the manuscript of her first YA fantasy novel.

Current Project

The Starfish Gentlemen's Club

Logline

Gifted—or cursed—with the ability to grow back body parts, sisters Lottie and Florence are forced to live as walking organ donors until Lottie flees to an underground speakeasy, seeking help from an old flame.