Based on true life memoirs, an ambitious painter vaults to fame when Marie Antoinette selects her as a portraitist, but the impending French Revolution threatens her career, her family, & her friendship with the hated Queen.

Join us for the celebration of the Grand Prize-winning feature script for the Table Read My Screenplay Competition, The Last Queen's Painter, by Lindsey Galloway, excerpts from the script, directed by Ria Pavia.

Lindsey Galloway (https://www.networkisa.org/profile/lindsey-galloway) is an award-winning journalist, author & entrepreneur who writes screenplays featuring "wildly complex" roles for women. She loves drawing ideas from history & legend, always seeking out stories that need (re)telling. Lindsey is a 10-year member of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado where she has studied screenwriting, experimental forms & divinatory poetics. She is a 2022 Academy Nicholl Fellowship Top 50 semifinalist, semifinalist at the Austin Film Festival & a finalist for The Black List Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship at Sundance.

Ria Pavia is a director, writer & acting/dialogue coach. Her film directorial debut, Second Team, nabbed 16 awards at various prestigious festivals, wrapping up at the American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes this year. Pavia was selected as one of 15 helmers for Sony’s Diverse Directing Program - Class of 2022. Her career in the entertainment industry launched with performing gymnastics in a tampon commercial in the ‘80s. This stint propelled her into acting in TV, guest spots & film roles. Back in the day, she recurred on Who’s the Boss, The Hughley’s & the soap opera Santa Barbara. Her career then segued into casting associate on such movies as Twister, Dead Presidents & Flirting with Disaster. Next, she donned her scribe hat, working as a staff writer on Ask Harriet (starring Ed Asner) & Pauly (starring Pauly Shore) for FOX. In theatre, Pavia has collaborated with Noah Wyle, Jennifer Aniston & Mark Ruffalo; directing over 45 plays & musicals. She recently wrapped her 5th season as acting coach on Freeform’s Grownish & directed her first music video in partnership with TikTok & Apple. Pavia attended Interlochen Arts Academy for high school as a Theatre Major, studied under the late great Sanford Meisner in the West Indies & finished up at UCLA focusing on Theatre, TV & Film.

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