Nick Roth is a former middle-school substitute Latin teacher and current film and television writer. He's also a halfway-decent dungeon master and a frankly-pretty-bad rock climber. Nick’s writing tends to be smart-funny, world-buildy, and genre-bendy. It also turns out he over-uses hyphens. He is repped by Zero Gravity.
Rumford Drama ⋄ Comedy The true story of the most improbable hero of the American Revolution: the pansexual British spy who invented the coffee percolator.
Space/Off Comedy When four rival billionaires and one personal assistant wind up stuck together on humanity's first crewed mission to Mars, they have to overcome their spoiled, petty, entitled, narcissistic, egomaniacal squabbles or else definitely run out of air and die.
Power Suit Drama A girl from the Ren Faire struggles to become a successful sales executive in the male-dominated world of 1980s Hollywood. Based on my mother's life story.
Oracle Sci-fi ⋄ Drama In a distant post-apocalyptic future, technology has been outlawed and the world has reverted to a medieval Dark Age. As a cunning archaeologist, a mysterious priestess, and a clever accountant conspire for the imperial throne, they discover that an ancient artificial intelligence known as the Oracle is returning to threaten humanity again.
The Last American in Monterey Park Drama ⋄ Biography The story of the first Chinese woman to become the mayor of an American city, Lily Lee Chen, from her humble beginnings in Japanese-occupied Tianjin through the turbulent "Yellow Power" movement of 1960s Berkeley, to her 1981 City Council campaign that would change the face of politics in Southern California.
Zombies for Christmas Horror ⋄ Comedy A college drop-out teams with an Elf, a Jew, and a non-binary Zoroastrian child to battle her mother's xenophobia, her brother being a douche, and Mecha-Hitler unleashing a hoard of zombies in the heartland of America... on Christmas!
The Great Emu War Historical ⋄ Comedy The true story of the Australian Government's 1932 war against migrating birds. For real.
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"Power Suit," Best Pilot, Script Pipeline First Look Contest
(2020)
"Coming To," Grand Prize for Fearless Filmmaking, Slamdance Film Festival
(2015)
PhD English, Cornell University
(2014)
BA English, UC Berkeley
(2007)