Nicole Conn
Writer/Director/Mother

Nicole Conn has been a die-hard
film fan from the age of ten.

This passion for film carried her through her first featurewhere she single-handedly raised the money, wrote, directed and produced Claire of the Moon, the maverick film about a woman's journey to her sexual identity. The film garnered rave reviews and paved the way for lesbian themed cinema in 1991. Conn also created a first for lesbian cinema: ancillary in the form of a novelization (in its 15th reprint), a making-of documentary MOMENTS (best-selling lesbian documentary ever made), soundtracks, posters, t-shirts, etc. She followed these projects with the award winning short film, Cynara...Poetry in Motion.

A two book deal with Simon Schuster produced the novels Passion's Shadow (1995) and Angel Wings (1997), a new age love story. The script adaptation for Angel Wings won the 2001 Telluride Film Festival's Best Screenplay Award. In another pioneering effort, The Wedding Dress was chosen by AOL Time Warner for its new internet endeavor ipublish, which debuted in June 2001. She Walks in Beauty was published in September, 2001 and is currently in development as a feature film along with several other original screenplays Conn has penned.

Conn achieved industry recognition with her film Claire of the Moon and was a finalist in the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. She believes in giving back to the community and sponsored the Claire of the Moon Scholarship in 1998, awarding second time novelists through the ASTRAEA Foundation.

Conn has written five novels, a teleplay, eight screenplays, and has produced two soundtracks. Conn and her partner, Gwendolyn Baba, a political activist, share a home in Los Angeles with their daughter and son.