2022 Emerging Artists Showcase
Core
Sunday, March 6th, 2022
Denver Sie FilmCenter
Synopsis
After several miscarriages, a woman must decide how to handle her friend’s pregnancy announcement.
After several miscarriages, a woman must decide how to handle her friend’s pregnancy announcement.
Producer/Director/Editor: Jessica McGaugh
Writer: Roma Sur
Cinematographer: Melanie McClean Brooks
Production Design: Margaret McClelland, Ashley Vaughn
Cast: Andrea Dratch, Sheevani Desai, Mia Park
SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram: @womanhood_theseries
Writer: Roma Sur
Cinematographer: Melanie McClean Brooks
Production Design: Margaret McClelland, Ashley Vaughn
Cast: Andrea Dratch, Sheevani Desai, Mia Park
SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram: @womanhood_theseries
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PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR
Jessica McGaugh Jessica McGaugh is an award-winning independent film director, cinematographer and editor working out of Denver, Colorado. Her work has been screened internationally including the Mumbai International Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, NDTV and Rocky Mountain PBS. Her feature films Red Pearl and Three Worlds, One Stage are distributed internationally on VOD and SVOD platforms. Jessica received an MFA in Film from Syracuse University and is currently teaching in the Film & Television Department at the University of Colorado Denver. |
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Andrea Dratch
Andrea Dratch is an award-winning American actor and producer who trained at American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) New York City. Andrea is known for her role as Lita in the award-winning feature film Small Town Remedies written and directed by R.W. Perkins that was released in 2020 which she co- produced. She also played Minnie Edwards in Crash & Burn Stories, a feature film released in 2016. Andrea is part owner of Film Locale, a production house based in Northern Colorado. She is a spokesperson and can be seen and heard doing commercial/voice-over work for a prominent Colorado company. Other notable performances include her role as Jennie Gaw in the short film, Womanhood the Series by Jessica McGaugh. On stage she was Yvette Pottier in Mother Courage and Her Children and Charlotte in Female Transport. She has been seen in numerous other shows and film projects in Colorado, New York City and Montana. Andrea studied film, directing, camera, screen writing and acting at Montana State University before solely focusing her career on acting and moving to New York City where she became a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic. |
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Sheevani Desai
Sheevani Desai is an actor, improviser and writer who came to Colorado from Michigan about 3 years ago. In addition to her blog, impressionista.me, Sheevani enjoys writing everything from sketches to full-length television pilots in a variety of genres. After studying improv and sketch comedy in Detroit, she decided to go all in with her lifelong dream of acting and has performed in everything from feature films to training videos for engineers. When she is not writing shows or acting on camera or on stage, you can find Sheevani working out, spending time with her family or watching anything with Julia Louis-Dreyfus in it. |
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Mia Park
Mia Park is a local Denver actress. She took her first acting class in 2015 and was hooked. Mia has been featured in a handful of local short- and feature-length independent films. Mia is excited to be a part of the Womanhood series and to have worked with such talented women in front of and behind the camera to bring real stories about women to life. She is also thrilled she can represent the Asian community in film, even if it is in a small way. #veryasian When Mia isn't acting, she is an oncology infusion nurse, a sustainability warrior, and a toddler-mom. |
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WRITER Roma Sur Roma Sur is a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker, residing in Denver, Colorado. After having lost her father at the age of four, she and her sister were raised by their mother in one of the most unsafe cities of India. Not surprisingly, her characters are usually fierce, independent women, or young adult, who know how to give adversity a tight backhand. She writes young adult and female driven dramas with levity, that are a cross-pollination of her immigrant experience of living in the US for twenty years, and her childhood in India. She has also served as an Executive Producer on two award-winning web series and directed and produced four award-winning documentaries. She has been teaching fiction and non-fiction writing at the University of Colorado, since 2009. Sur leads the study abroad film production program to Mumbai, titled Bollywood Connections, at CU Denver. |
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CINEMATOGRAPHER
Melanie McClean Brooks These days, Melanie is often a director, creative producer or director of photography, although still photography will always have her heart. After serving in the United States Air Force as a public affairs officer for a quick stint, she moved to NYC to worked on the team of legendary Annie Leibovitz, learning her way in the image-making world. In the last five years, as a director of photography, she has lensed numerous documentaries, such as Dykes, Camera, Action!, Hingakawa (a Starbucks Production), Big Hips, Big Dreams and digital content for VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race since season 9. She recently stepped up as the director of photography for season 2 of Marvel’s Eat the Universe and has been the director of photography for Emmy-nominated series "Portrait of a Queen," featuring RuPaul's Drag Race superstars and Logo's Out of the Closet, season 2. She received her Bachelors in journalism from Rutgers University and a Master of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in social documentary film. |
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MUSIC COMPOSER/PERFORMER Dina Bodaubay Pianist Dina Bodaubay received her Bachelor’s from Almaty Conservatory Kazakhstan her Master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Ms. Bodaubay past performances include solo concerts with Kazakh Symphony, Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Artist Music Series in Orange City Florida and appearances on National Television. Ms. Bodaubay has been a recipient of the Almaty Conservatory grants from Ministry of Culture of Kazakhstan, and the Ted Anderson Performance Award from the University of Colorado. Currently Dina Bodaubay is teaching piano at the University of Colorado Denver as well as privately |