Melody Cooper

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Melody recently completed the Sundance Episodic Lab’s new Idea Lab, in which she developed a sci fi horror pilot. Her first TV work was as staff writer on the second season of Two Sentence Horror Stories, for which she wrote two episodes. Melody just completed work on the 22nd season of NBCUniversal’s Law & Order: SVU as story editor. She was a 2019 HBO Access Writing Fellow and a winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the Urbanworld Film Festival. Melody has been named one of the Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2021 by the International Screenwriters Association. She was selected for AMC's Shudder Labs with her supernatural feature THE SOUND OF DARKNESS and is developing a horror comedy feature that she will direct for Fear Works. In addition to being an award-winning playwright, Melody also writes the comic book OMNI (Vol. 2) and her sci fi story "Igbo Landing" can be seen in the graphic novel anthology NOIR IS THE NEW BLACK. She is co-founder of Nyx Horror Collective, a group of women horror writers and directors. Currently, Melody is developing a scripted thriller podcast for Dear Media and writing a soon to be announced feature for Netflix.