Madison Kahn
Writer / Creative Director
PLAY
As a former journalist, I am drawn to real human stories — often those that expose questions of gender, class, and power. So when I’m not writing headlines and ad copy, I write TV pilots. Usually based on true events. I’ve been working on these three for the past couple years. If you’d like to see a pitch bible or script, HMU.
PROMISED LAND
Hour drama
A small-town girl takes an Executive Assistant job with a high-powered tech CEO thinking it’s her ticket to freedom from her family’s religious cult—but she quickly finds herself trapped once again, this time in the cult of Silicon Valley.
*Quarterfinalist in Screencraft’s True Story Pilot competition
GURUS
Half-hour comedy
When two of Sedona’s infamous healers — a power couple with mad powers — lose their Qi (and their following) in an accident, they hit the road to cleanse chakras, read tarots, and heal all sorts of eccentric Americans, including themselves.
THE VEIL
Hour drama
When a Jewish feminist moves to St. Louis in 1972 and discovers the secret boy’s club running the city from the shadows, she teams up with a vengeful housewife and her housekeeper to topple this patriarchal kingdom — and the city’s entire power structure begins to crumble under the weight of change.
*Semifinalist in the Middlebury Script Lab