About Shay

Shay Thurmon is a comedy writer, army brat and living organ donor.  She began writing comedy in high school when she penned the underground newspapers at two different schools on two different continents.  As an adult she fell in love with Atlanta where she began writing comedy bits for variety performers and jokes for stand-up comedians.  She also wrote and produced comedic murder mysteries for fifteen years, winning awards and the gratitude of actors for the highest pay, and including meals at nearly all performances.

As a screenwriter, Shay has written action/adventures that have been finalists, quarterfinalists and second rounders at the Nicholl Fellowship (Motion Picture Arts and Science), Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, Big Apple Film Festival, Vail Screenwriting Competition, Scriptapalooza and numerous other festivals. She has also produced, written and/or directed several short films that have won multiple awards and screened at prestigious film festivals.

Shay is currently adapting “From Woodstock to Eternity” by John Cooper as a limited series. Based on his life as a pot smuggling pilot, Woodstock hippie, and born again Christian – it’s non-stop adventure!

She is also writing the screenplay adaptation of  “The Knight and the Falcon” by Joseph Ghougassian, former Ambassador to Qatar.

I write the kind of movies I want to see. Sometimes that is a big budget action adventure along the lines of “Indiana Jones,” other times it’s a situational comedy for the stage akin to “Noises Off.”  More recently I have begun writing adaptations of biographies featuring events that I find fascinating and think others will also.