“Writing is always something I did for my own delight and enjoyment,” said Kate Holland. “I would have these stories playing in my head, a scenario or a world, maybe mentally writing episodes of favorite TV shows.” This led Kate to some writing partnerships in the world of theater. “Then I met Marlowe in a writer’s group online. He and I hit it off right away.”

“I’ve just gotten started,” said Marlow Mitchell. “I’ve been writing since I was able to writing, writing stories. I grew up in Denmark and when I was 15, I won a writing competition. That was a first since I might be quite good at it, because the competition was for adults. That was good for my ego,” joked Marlowe.

The screenwriters met online during the pandemic. “During that, I got involved in this project about interviewing transmasculine people about football. I’ve done 20 interviews and an event around it. Right now, I’m editing the interviews in a long-form version.”

Marlowe describes this project and their partnership as “circling the type of writing I want to do.” Their latest project is a feature called Offsiders, a trans-centered soccer rom-com that won first place in the ISA Fellowship Track. “There’s a toxic environment around trans people in sport,” said Marlowe. “I’m transmasculine and I’ve played football in the past.”

“Marlowe is just one of the most thoughtful people I’ve met,” said Kate. “I think there are many ways we are similar, but I think we both have fairly esoteric interests, but then we kind of come into pop culture and interact with it through neurodiverse and queer lenses. We’re looking at tropes to find the larger story we a tell or how we can deepen the human connection.”

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