When I am my mother’s age, I don’t want a lulled pause after my children ask me about Black romantic comedies—I want a rich and immediate answer.
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Sharena Sigmon (she/her) is a film critic, screenwriter, and filmmaker from the Southside of Chicago. After graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Fiction Writing, she worked exclusively on screenplay adaptations in Los Angeles. In 2020, she earned her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University, where her thesis screenplay won first place in Northwestern's Screenwriting competition.
Since then, her writing has appeared in Dialogue Magazine, Harness Magazine, Happier and Healthier LGBTQIA+ Communities, the 13 Horror Screenwriter Competition, Hear Us Scream, and the Chicago Film Office's Social Justice Screenwriting Competition. Her work also includes assisting the Chicago International Film Festival, staff writing at Screen Speck, mentoring through Northwestern’s Media Mentorship Program, and teaching filmmaking after-school to middle schoolers.
