Staton Rabin

STATON RABIN is a screenwriter, and a YA novelist (Simon & Schuster) with a global audience. She's hired for her skill in adapting IP, true stories, & biographies into screenplays with roles that are catnip to A-list actors. She wrote a feature script based on Alex Rosenberg's Holocaust novel "The Girl From Krakow", and a TV pilot "Instruments of Night" (based on Thomas Cook's mystery novel) for Afterglow Pictures & Two Jacks Productions. She's on ISA's "Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2023" list and earlier this year wrote a TV series adaptation of Timothy Ashby's historical novel, RANGER. Her script "Saving Mark Twain" is a PAGE Awards Finalist.

Her original spec script "Saving Mark Twain" is on the Red List and is the Historical/Bio Genre Winner of the ISA Fast Track XII Fellowship, a Finalist in the WeScreenplay Feature Script Competition, the Winner of the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival Screenplay Competition, a Top Ten Finalist in the Historical Genre for Table Read My Screenplay, a Semifinalist in the 2023 PAGE Awards (final placement still pending), and a Top 5 Finalist in Mystic Film Festival Feature Screenplay Competition. Staton's TV pilot script "Betsy and the Emperor" (based on her award-winning YA novel from Simon & Schuster, published in 15 languages globally), is on Coverfly's Red List and the feature script she wrote based on her book won the Montreal Independent Film Festival ("Best Unproduced Featured Script") and the Festival Napoleon in Paris. "The New York Times Book Review" calls BETSY AND THE EMPEROR "an engaging novel, based on real events".

Unfailingly reliable, producers trust her to get the job done. She has two scripts on Coverfly's Red List, and Coverfly chose her drama-comedy spec "Saving Mark Twain" for a live Virtual Script Reading by The Storytellers Conservatory. With a background as a freelance story analyst for Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, and the former William Morris Agency, as well as many screenwriters and producers (www.ScreenplayMuse.com), she brings a mastery of story structure, an analytical mind, and a creative, cooperative spirit to every screenwriting and script analysis assignment.

Staton discovers unusual true stories about famous people or events-- blends them with a lot of heart and a dash of comedy-- and creates warm, funny, poignant movies about relatable human beings. When the world is spinning out of control, her stories give us something to hang onto: what sustains us is love of family and friends, and our courage. If you miss seeing movies that make you laugh, cry, and root for the hero-- and remind you life is worth living-- you've come to the right place.

As Austin Film Festival's report said of "Saving Mark Twain": "As you can tell, I loved this script. It’s the last script I’m reading for the festival this year, and it’s comfortably my favorite. There’s a richness of character and human behavior here that’s hard to come by. It’s got a keen sense of history, yet you don’t use it as a crutch. These people behave like real people. I think this script could be made as is [...] and it would be a great film for everyone to enjoy...It’s got a very broad appeal...this script is warm, considered, funny, bittersweet."

Staton's YA novel published by Simon & Schuster, THE CURSE OF THE ROMANOVS, was recently named a Finalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition, and she wrote another YA time-travel novel, BLACK POWDER, for the same publisher. She has a BFA in Film from NYU, has taught screenwriting, and is a member of New York Women in Film & Television.