Rae Binstock (Screenwriter, screenwriter)

Rae Binstock

(She/Her/Hers)

Screenwriter

Website: www.raebinstock.com

Biography

Rae Binstock is a playwright and screenwriter from Cambridge, MA. Her work interrogates climate change and social justice through the lens of intersectional reckoning.

She earned her B.A. from Columbia University, where she was mentored by David Henry Hwang and Ellen McLaughlin. Her plays include That Heaven’s Vault Should Crack (The New Group, Lark Development Center, T. Schreiber’s Studios), land of no mercy (Landing Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, Princess Grace finalist), Consequences (Stella Adler’s Playwrights Division, Jane Chambers Award finalist), and WALKERS (The Shelter, O’Neill Conference semifinalist, Jerome Fellowship finalist) and her work has been produced and developed as part of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, Jewish Plays Project, and the Fresh Fruit Festival, among others.

Rae served as the Writers’ Assistant on both FX Networks’ FOSSE/VERDON and Apple+’s shows Schmigadoon, IF/THEN, and LIBERTY. She is also one of the authors of the Climate Storytelling Playbook, a writing guide for climate change stories published by the nonprofit Good Energy. Rae has won fellowships with, among others, the Lark Play Development Center, the Dramatists Guild, and New York Foundation of the Arts. She is the 2023 Grand Prize Winner of national TV pilot competitions from Creative Screenwriting, Screencraft, and WeScreenplay, and is a two-time semifinalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab.

She lives in Los Angeles with her cats, Lila and Garlic.

Rae Binstock is a playwright and screenwriter from Cambridge, MA. Her work interrogates climate change and social justice through the lens of intersectional reckoning.

She lives in Los Angeles with her cats, Lila and Garlic.

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Projects (2)

Television (One-hour)

Crime .
Drama .
Historical

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21 Awards

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Television (One-hour)

Drama .
Family .
Thriller

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14 Awards

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Credits (1)

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Short

Dramedy .
Romance

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22 Awards

Trailer

Produced

Education

Columbia University

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Rae Binstock

Screenwriter

Website: www.raebinstock.com

Biography

Rae Binstock is a playwright and screenwriter from Cambridge, MA. Her work interrogates climate change and social justice through the lens of intersectional reckoning. She earned her B.A. from Columbia University, where she was mentored by David Henry Hwang and Ellen McLaughlin. Her plays include That Heaven’s Vault Should Crack (The New Group, Lark Development Center, T. Schreiber’s Studios), land of no mercy (Landing Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, Princess Grace finalist), Consequences (Stella Adler’s Playwrights Division, Jane Chambers Award finalist), and WALKERS (The Shelter, O’Neill Conference semifinalist, Jerome Fellowship finalist) and her work has been produced and developed as part of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, Jewish Plays Project, and the Fresh Fruit Festival, among others. Rae served as the Writers’ Assistant on both FX Networks’ FOSSE/VERDON and Apple+’s shows Schmigadoon, IF/THEN, and LIBERTY. She is also one of the authors of the Climate Storytelling Playbook, a writing guide for climate change stories published by the nonprofit Good Energy. Rae has won fellowships with, among others, the Lark Play Development Center, the Dramatists Guild, and New York Foundation of the Arts. She is the 2023 Grand Prize Winner of national TV pilot competitions from Creative Screenwriting, Screencraft, and WeScreenplay, and is a two-time semifinalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab. She lives in Los Angeles with her cats, Lila and Garlic.

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