Lillie Gardner

Lillie Gardner loves working with new writers and encouraging them to persist in making their most impactful and authentic work. As a screenwriter, Lillie has adjudicated screenplays for the CineStory TV and Feature Screenplay Contests and served as a screenplay coverage writer for Coverage Ink. Her own writing examines how women wield femininity in a patriarchal world and explores how our belief systems can both help us and hold us back. Named one of MovieMaker Magazine’s “25 Screenwriters to Watch” in 2023, Lillie was also the Winner of Austin Film Festival’s 2022 Rooster Teeth Women & Animation Fellowship Award and the Winner of Outstanding Drama Pitch at the 2021 Catalyst Story Institute. She is currently writing episodes for the Wondery Kids podcast 'Whose Amazing Life?', as well as writing and directing the Twin Cities-based comedy web series 'VEGAN PLEASE.'