Calvin Cearley

Calvin Cearley spent the first portion of his career wielding story, strategy, and copywriting in the marketing world to achieve things like "brand synergy" and "higher click-through rates." However, a lifetime of suppressed creative impulses finally boiled over during the pandemic. While others took up knitting or Tiger King, Calvin looked out the window at a historic global crisis and thought, “What this moment really needs is more screenplays.” He plunged headfirst into screenwriting, a career pivot that ultimately resulted in his debut novella, The Understudy. He remains an incurable creative, though his family wishes he would talk less during the movie about when the inciting incident happened.