Krysana Maragh

Krysana Maragh is a first-generation Jamaican American screenwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. After a lifetime of being the only black person in the room, she now specializes in a genre she calls "Revenge of Suburban Black America" centered on diverse characters driven by self-determination with nothing to lose and no interest in restraint. Her influences are Skins (UK), Degrassi: Next Gen, and SRAM. Equal parts Paramore and Kendrick Lamar, she's in the business of misery but we gon' be alright.

Krysana holds an MFA in Film (TV Writing) from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science and Media from Emory University. Her work has screened at Black Girls Rock!, Urban World Film Festival and she is the winner of Funniest Achievement in a Teleplay at the 2025 Columbia University Film Festival.  Krysana's take on 2000s suburban life highlights a generation-robbed, giving rise to a New American Dream: Visibility.

2025 Columbia University Film Fest - Funniest Achievement in Teleplay, Meet Me @ The Mall (2025)

2025 Columbia University Film Festival - Faculty Selects, Meet Me @ The Mall (2025)

2025 Urbanworld Film Festival Selection - Narrative Short, Another Blue Monday (2024)

2024 BGR Film Fest Official Selection - Narrative Short, Another Blue Monday (2024)

2024 Essence Film Festival Finalist - Narrative Short, Another Blue Monday (2024)

2023 Global Shorts Film Festival Honorable Mention - Narrative Short, Hunger (2023)

2023 Columbia University Dean’s Project Grant Recipient

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