Christine Burright McGuigan

Majoring in Creative Writing (Creative Nonfiction) in the School of the Arts, Omaha native Christine Burright McGuigan’s screenplays are garnering a number of awards and attention.

A short screenplay called Mad Rush won Best Short Screenplay and Best Nebraska Screenplay at the Omaha Film Festival recently.

A director/producer and actress/producer team from Mexico, who was attending the festival, were at the script’s reading and ended up buying the script. Mad Rush is now in pre-production in Mexico. It should be completed this fall for submission into other film festivals.

She also wrote a short film called The Headliner that was produced locally and was accepted into the Omaha Film Festival as well.

Christine, who will graduate in the fall of 2018, is currently on team of writers working on a new animated short film. The animator producing the piece has worked on Hollywood productions of Shrek and Lord of the Rings. “I’m excited about all of the projects. The faculty in the School of the Arts Writer’s Workshop have helped me grow as a writer and storyteller.”

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