Transit Karma
Life, Love and all Local Stops
a new screenplay written by
Dasha Snyder
Transit Karma
Life, Love and all Local Stops a new screenplay written by Dasha Snyder |
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New York City, 1993: the dawn of Lesbian Chic, the age of AIDS before the protease inhibitor cocktail, and the institution of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." |
| Mic Goldman, a production assistant working on a network sitcom, is assigned to take care of it's closeted lesbian star and her girlfriend. The recent HIV diagnosis of her best friend David, her burgeoning romance with his AIDS Center case worker Kat, and the closeted nature of her job propel Mic into a new realm of grief, love and pride. | |
| About the Screenwriter: Dasha Snyder trained as a playwright at Drew University, then furthered her studies at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. Several of her plays were produced off-Broadway. |
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| Her full-length play Beached Whales won the Robert Fischer Oxnam Award for Playwriting, and her one-act play My Name Is... won a full production in the Out On The Edge Festival. Her screenplay Transit Karma was a finalist at the Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, a semi-finalist in the 2005 Nolita Film Festival and a quarter-finalist in the 9th Annual American Screenwriters Association International Screenplay Competition. Her latest feature screenplay, the dramedy To Do: was selected for the 2006 OutFest Screenwriters Lab, and a short version was a finalist at AFI's Directing Workshop for Women 2006. She created, wrote and executive produced The D Word, a New York City parody of Showtime's Sapphic TV series. The D Word has played LGBT film festivals worldwide and won the Jury Prize for Best Feature at the Fire Island Film & Video Festival. Snyder is a contributor to AfterEllen.com and Velvetpark Magazine, and authored the popular column "Girl's Night Out" on the website Total New York. She also worked in web development for Apple Computer, Lifetime Television, AOL and New Line Cinema's joint venture The Hub, Sesame Street, and as a consultant for Viant. She is Coordinator of the Filmmakers Forum and Programming Assistant at NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival, and a producer with Dyke TV. Snyder is currently line producing a documentary directed by Nathaniel Kahn and writing several feature scripts for film and TV. | |
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© Dasha Snyder & Digital Goddess 2003-2006
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