Current Projects
Who's Afraid of Hollywood?
a short film
in pre-production
directed by
Madison Young
Zaz Benny, a former child star and transmasc Influencer gets called to the glam country estate of an iconic lesbian film producer for an episode of a reality TV series,The New Queer Hollywood. But when the day's shoot goes off the rails, Zaz is challenged to prove themselves in ways they could have never expected.
Crashing America
a feature film in development
Looking for home in all the wrong places.
On The Beach At Night
a stage play
Can a theoretical physicist and young poet find a common language?
Deep Fake
a stage play
A lonely AI programmer searches for meaning in artifice while battling election fraud.
Crashing America
"It's like if Janis Joplin wrote a novel and didn't die on us, but sang the whole damn thing." — Author Eileen Myles
a novel
I'm a San Francisco-based author and screenwriter, who ventured into screenwriting and film when my first novel, Crashing America, was optioned. To my surprise, I found a new love — collaborating with inspired actors, directors, and talented creatives.
My latest script, "Who's Afraid of Hollywood," is "a very queer and very twisted valentine to the Hollywood-industrial complex." It draws from my wild experiences working to produce an indie feature film.
Over 70 agents passed on my novel Crashing America — a 90s road story with a genderqueer narrator, before a small gay press published it. A recipient of many honors, it is now taught in universities worldwide, and considered a landmark work of queer literature.
Note: I am thrilled to announce that Madison Young has just signed on as director and producer of my new short film.
Madison Young is a queer feminist filmmaker and artist that has been smashing stigma in the media for two decades, across multiple mediums and platforms including several critically -acclaimed books, touring with their Off-Broadway one womxn show, Reveal All Fear Nothing, and directing, hosting and producing two seasons of the documentary television series, Submission Possible, for Revry TV.
Young is the writer/director/producer for the forthcoming feature film, By the Roots, an adaptation of their memoir, Daddy. It is executive-produced by Emmy-nominated Silas Howard and stars Emily Robinson of the Emmy-winning series Transparent, Emmy-nominated Margaret Cho, and Lea DeLaria (Orange is the New Black).
MADISON YOUNG
Director,
Who's Afraid of Hollywood?
