Seth Michael Donsky

Seth’s screenplay Live at the Desert Inn about British icon Noël Coward reinventing himself in 1955 Las Vegas is currently optioned by Tony, Emmy, and Olivier-Award winning producer John Gore (Maybe Happy Ending, Stereophonic, The Lehman Trilogy .)

His screenplay Stardusk, about transgender Andy Warhol superstar Candy Darling, is currently being shopped by Oscar-winning Producer Bruce Cohen (Milk, Silver Linings Playbook, Rustin, The Great Lillian Hall.) Director bretten hannam (Wildhood!, At The Place of Ghosts) and Mason Alexander Park (Netflix's The Sandman, Cowboy Beebop, Quantum Leap, Oh, Mary!) are attached.

His feature debut Twisted, Dickens' Oliver Twist reimaged in a 1990s queer New York City underground subculture, which he wrote and directed, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Its limited US theatrical release earned acclaim from The Los Angeles Times, Variety, The New York Press, and The Village Voice. Twisted was inducted into MoMA's permanent film collection and screened in New York's Anthology Film Archives’ 2024 Narrow Rooms series for canonically undervalued edgy queer cinema.

His feature and short film work has been programmed at the International Film Festivals of London, Berlin, Seattle; the queer film festivals of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia; and the short film festivals of Palm Springs and Clermont-Ferrand among others.

He was named one of the 25 screenwriters to watch in 2024 by the International Screenwriters Association. He holds a BA in Drama from the University of California at Irvine and an MFA in Film from Columbia University.

He lives in Los Angeles with his husband, modern dancer and choreographer Patrick Corbin, a professor at the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC, their son, three cats, and two French bulldogs.

He is represented by Gersh, Heroes and Villains, and Echo Lake management.