Heather L McQuaid

Author and Screenwriter

London, England

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November 2021

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About Heather

Heather mines her lifelong interest in cognitive psychology to create vivid and visceral stories with a psychological twist for people who enjoy character-driven thrillers with strong female leads.

Heather's short stories have been shortlisted on Reedsy and the Bridgend Writers' Circle competition. The audio adaption of 'The Lorelei,' in collaboration with the Crossroads Cantina podcast, was a finalist in the Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize for Prose. The synopsis of her feature screenplay, Oil on Bone, won third place in the 2022 Euroscript Competition, while another feature, A Taste of Blue, reached the quarterfinals of several competitions.

She's currently looking for collaborators in London to develop one her shorts.

Gender:
Female

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A Positive Contribution Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Mystery When a complacent doctor - who performs memory-erasure procedures on criminals at a Government Institute - realises her memories have been altered, she braves an escape to rescue her 'forgotten' daughter before her memory is wiped.
Oil on Bone Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller When a song from her childhood triggers repressed memories of her mother's murder, a vulnerable artist teams up with a gruff private investigator to find the killer before he finds her.
Dreamcaster Budget: $100K - $1M | Sci-fi In a not-too-distant steampunk future, where people who can craft dreams are feared and exploited, a compliant dreamcaster is forced to flee the Government's brutal Enforcers when she's falsely accused of murdering a prominent Senator with a death dream.
Baggajazz Budget: $0 - $100K | Family ⋄ Animation When a greedy princess hikes the taxes for a family of toll bridge trolls, plunging them into poverty, the son troll is determined to find an alternative way to make more money - that’s jazz…
a taste of blue Budget: $100K - $1M | Mystery ⋄ Drama When a fragile artist teams up with a gruff ex-cop to investigate her father’s mysterious death, her extra-perceptive vision reveal dark family secrets that force her confront the killer, her volatile sister.

Awards

Quarterfinalist in the Los Angeles International Screenwriting Awards
(2022)
Quarterfinalist in the Stage 32 Female Driven Screenwriting Contest
(2022)
Third place in Euroscript's Screen Story competition
(2022)
Finalist in Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize in Prose
(2021)