Semifinalist, 2026 Roadmap Writers' Shorts Competition
BIO
Shooting weddings in the family's wedding photography business, Cole wore wigs to hide punk rock haircuts and androgynous leanings to infiltrate Blue Blood estates, and captured families on their best day often experiencing their worst, honing a spy-like chameleon skill she'd learned at home where her own family stacked their secrets.
She took her superpowers to street photography, where she pieced together diasporas-punk rock tribes, musicians, minstrels, superstars, and criminals alike, all in tiny square, black and white windows of colliding worlds-like gathering clues for vague crimes, which she developed in Harvard's darkrooms. The only place where street-kid artists like herself were embraced.
Fearing she would vanish into the streets, she was surprised by academic distinction, an invitation into the Writers Guild for original content, and an MFA for photo/film. Realizing she was growing a passion for screenwriting, Cole studied at Roadmap, ScriptAnatomy, SVA and Jacob Kruger, where her chameleon-infiltrator-sleuth sensibilities cranked out prize winning thrillers and horror film and TV. In the same way she photographed, Cole found a calling for being able to convey authentic voices of flawed characters from boardroom to Bowery.