1989 was a helluva year. Florida executed Ted Bundy; the World Wide Web was proposed; Germany tore down the Berlin Wall; and in New York City, Louisa Danger Rorschach came screaming into existence weighing 9 lbs 7 oz. Something of the zeitgeist must’ve crossed the placenta, because Louisa grew up innately concerned with the universal themes of justice, connection, independence, and metamorphosis. Moving through careers in the arts and education before landing on screenwriting, her work has always been socially conscious and interested in how private revolutions of the heart and mind bleed outward to change the physical world.

Louisa’s scripts began as subtly norm-challenging romcoms, but as her writing process developed, she found her strength in deeply symbolic and topical social thrillers layered with meaning. Now more Do The Right Thing than When Harry Met Sally––hello again, 1989––her character-driven narratives feature richly diverse protagonists responding to cataclysmic events, where the only way to survive is to transform.