Talent Guide

Paige Wood

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Episodic Lab 2024

Bio

Paige Wood is an award-winning independent filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer working across narrative and documentary film, animation, and video games — her work with projects such as Dot’s, Home, Mine, The Giverny Document, and The Femme Queen Chronicles championed by the likes of BlackStar Film Festival, Tribeca Festival, Apple, and the Museum of Modern Art.

Based in Detroit and working worldwide, Paige is a 2024 Finalist for the Fox Entertainment Writers Incubator, 2023 winner of Constellations’ Artist Disruptor Award, 2022 Gotham TV Lab Fellow, 2021-2022 Annenberg Civic Media Fellow, 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow and a 2019 Sundance | Knight Fellow.

Current Project

Shame

Logline

Shame is a comedy-drama series that follows Anju, a 30-something South Asian-Caribbean woman, who suddenly develops vaginismus after a pap test gone wrong. Through an obstacle course of comically painful turns, she must navigate the intricacies of sex, shame, and societal expectations, after being diagnosed with a rarely discussed, quietly kept medical condition.