film/tv writer | antihero women in strange new worlds
Current Projects
Reunited
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch Competition
Summerland
Coverfly Top 2%
Winner, Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition
Greetings From Atlantic City
Reunited – techno-horror feature
LOGINE: In the near future, a lab assistant uses experimental neurotech to communicate with the afterlife to find her sister’s killer — inadvertently bringing back a malevolent entity..
Summerland – supernatural thriller pilot
LOGLINE: A clairvoyant woman returns to her hometown, a former Spiritualist community on the New Jersey shore, to solve her boyfriend's cold-case murder
Greetings From Atlantic City – crime drama pilot
LOGLINE: A teen girl rebels against her grifter mom in 1990s Atlantic City, N.J. Decades later, she’s pulled back into her old life when forced to reckon with her mother’s dangerous legacy.
About Michele
Michele Dagle O’Connor is a writer from a big, chaotic Italian-American family in New Jersey. She has worked for the advocacy organization New York Women In Film (NYWIFT) and teaches screenwriting at Marquette University. Her scripts have won at Scriptapalooza, Shore Scripts, and the Oregon Independent Film Festival, and have been recognized by the Austin Film Festival and CineStory.
Michele received her MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College, a program that amplifies female and other underrepresented voices.