Melody Cooper

Melody Cooper is a sci-fi/horror writer, director, and producer for TV, film, and comics. A Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow + Adobe Women at Sundance fellowship winner for her script Those Who Kill, she adapted Beasts of Prey for Netflix and sold a genre show to Netflix with Will Packer. She co-produced Power Book IV: Force on Starz, was a staff writer on CW's Two Sentence Horror Stories, + joined Law & Order: SVU. Her thriller Northern Cross won the 2018 Urbanworld Film Fest Grand Jury Prize. She co-founded NYX Horror Collective, producing award-winning micro short films on Shudder. A member of Horror Writers Assoc. and Genre Queens, she serves on the Stowe Story Labs board. Her current project earned a residency at Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center + trip to Antarctica for research.