Semifinalist, 45 Forward Screenwriting Fellowship (2026)
BIO
FV Everleigh is a queer preacher's kid in Chicago. After years as an award winning Christian rock star, FV toured the globe producing acclaimed burlesque shows with a world famous stripper. They eventually moved into John Wayne's favorite New Orleans brothel and adopted the name Everleigh in tribute to sisters who ran an opulent Chicago bordello in 1900. In addition to training at UCLA, FV has a Television Writing Certificate from Writing Pad LA and is a Roadmap TOP TIER writer. His scripts have placed in the ScreenCraft, Roadmap and Inroads Fellowship competitions. He has written four cocktail books and a one hour premium cable series for Bohemia Group, and a self-published collection of short stories. Twenty plus years surrounded by sex-positive women, outré artists and circus misfits has informed FV's sexually subversive, morally murky, visually yummy stories where marginalized protagonists win...eventually.