Mary Sette is a comedy writer/director, cartoonist, and horror-obsessed indie filmmaker. She tells animated queer-centered genre stories about weird-ass punks hungry for blood, cheese, and anti-depressants. Think if Daria was an ax murderer, Tim Burton made Liquid TV, or Wes Anderson wrote about women. Mary is currently writing and illustrating her first graphic novel, HORRIBLE CORPSES, based on her hilarious teenage years as a suicidal wannabe goth — working as a script consultant, freelancing as an illustrator, and developing some genderbending cartoons with her bodacious collaborator, Anna Cangellaris. Her teeny-bopper murder mystery and animated pilot, HOT TODDY premiered at 2022 Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, Outfest LA LGBTQ Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Oakville Film Festivals of Film and Art, and Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. She previously worked for Comedy Bang! Bang!, Snapchat, Disney Channel, Partizan Entertainment, Dancing Atoms Studio, Digomind Productions, Coquette Productions, and New Artists Alliance. Her scripts have been short-listed by Warner Bros. Television Writers' Workshop, Sundance Institute, Hedgebrook Screenwriting Lab, Austin Film Festival, Los Angeles Animation Film Festival,and Stage 32's New Voices in Animation to name a few. As an artist, Mary was a finalist in the St. Nell's Humor Residency and CalArts Animation Residency, where she studied 2D animation and character design; her drawings have been published by Slackjaw Humor, Whohaha, Medium, Blog Talk Radio, and many more. Mary received her Master's in Fine Arts from USC's John Wells Division of Writing for Screen and Television and her Bachelor's Degree from The George Washington University, where she studied English and Creative Writing. She is originally from a small farm town in New Jersey known for its meatballs and regret. She is full of regret.