A divorced, overeducated, woman in her 50s must make a choice: stay broke or start an online fan page featuring her excellent chest.
Eliza Shotz, is the mom we all know: a stay-at-home CEO of her family where she has spent nearly two decades funneling her compulsive need for achievement into a performative, carefully curated life, most of which she is grossly overqualified for. She holds two advanced degrees but instead works for an insufferable Gen Z boss at a local florist. She’s married to David – the typical mid-life crisis dad bro who’s checked out of reality. Her two teen sons, Jon and Jack are equally as dissociated, but are at least nicer about it.
Everyone assumes she has it together – until she doesn’t – leaving Eliza to face her own mid-life combustion.
MY BIGGEST FANS is a half-hour, single-cam dark comedy about identity, reinvention, and the stark reality women face while enduring free labor and sidestepping their own ambitions. It explores quiet emotional violence of suburban marriage, and turns the “American Dream” on its head. It’s raw feminism is at its finest in the wake of a brutal, gender imbalanced financial reality.
Jessica Redish is an award-winning director, writer & choreographer and a recent graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts’ MFA Film & Television Production Program. She has been referred to as a “rising star” by Medium.com because of her accomplishments with her award-winning short films and music videos. Her body of work ranges from contributing choreography to The Smashing Pumpkins' International Tour to her short films “The Last Croissant,” “AIRWAY” and “cat.” winning Best Director and Best Comedy awards. She also has worked as a comedy writer for Emmy & Golden Globe Winner Joey Soloway, as well as Michael Bay & Adam Goodman’s Invisible Narratives.
Her two most recent award-winning short films “Exit, Pursued by a Bear,” and “cat.” have distribution both internationally and domestically. She was honored to have both films individually win Audience Choice Awards, Best Comedy and receive placement in the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts and Raindance Film Festivals. Jessica is currently working on four full-length film and television projects in development at various stages and loves working with and featuring strong voices from marginalized communities.
Jessica attributes her ability to work with actors and capture great performances because of her theatre work for which The Chicago Tribune named her production of “Merrily We Roll Along” as one of the top ten Sondheim productions in Chicago, putting her on a shortlist with Hal Prince. She is also the winner of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Choreography for “Silence! The Musical!” a musical parody of “The Silence of the Lambs.” Inspired by the work of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, her detailed and honest work has been described has "Hilariously twisted" by the Hollywood Digest.
Jessica resides in California where she tends to her “Golden Girls” Chia Pet.
Co-Writer, Kelly Woyan
