Sasha Pasternak is a Los Angeles based writer/director with a Master of Fine Arts from the USC John Wells Division of Writing for Screen and Television. Her screenplay Vicious was a 2021 nominee on the Wscripted Inaugural Cannes Screenplay List, a 2019 Academy Nicholl Fellowship 'Top Fifty' finalist, and was selected as the winner of the 2020 ScreenCraft Finishing Fund Award. In May of 2020, Sasha was awarded the Stephanie Rothman Fellowship for her short film, Make Me The Tennessee. She is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music; University of Hartford, and a long time student of acting coach Larry Moss. Some of Sasha’s most notable credits include: Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Produced by Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner), The Bands Visit (MTC Creative Center), and Gilmore Girls (Directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino)
