Talent Guide

Mitali Jahagirdar

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Screenwriting Lab 2020

Bio

Mitali Jahagirdar is an Indian-American writer from Central Florida. Prior to pursuing her passion for film and television, Mitali served as a financial litigation paralegal in New York City. In 2017 she received her MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, and since then her mystery thriller voice has won her the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting grant, CAPE New Writers Fellowship, and NBC Writers on the Verge Fellowship. Mitali is currently the Script Coordinator on The CW’s Dynasty and is presently in development with Netflix on a pilot. Mitali is based in Los Angeles and is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment.

Current Project

Containment

Logline

In an ultra-secure biotechnology research laboratory, a highly virulent strain of SARS — secretly designed at the lab — contaminates the entire building, forcing a doctor to try and save its inhabitants before everyone is infected.