
Quarterfinalist, 2025 JumpStart Writing Competition
BIO
FRANKIE CAMPISANO is a non-binary punk-rock poet and filmmaker with a style once favorably compared to Aaron Sorkin on acid. An NJ native raised in NC, Frankie now lives in Los Angeles. As the co-founders of the creative collective Nice Hog!, Frankie Campisano and Steve Autore have been creating surrealist comedy together for over ten years. Their most recent short film, SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT, placed in the Top 50 for Roadmap Writers 2024 Shorts Competition.